Cheeky!!

I'm left handed and left eyed. And I don't have any problems, other than the fact that the LCD gets very greasy

Even now it'll be tough I reckon. I couldn't see any in the West London Argos branches.

Actually it would be handy as a burglar decoy, come to think of it.

I wouldn't get an FAJ 75-300 again.

I can't think of a single advantage over the 55-300.

Actually, if you check that link I posted just above, it's "some new lenses won't AF with it", not "no new lenses".

However, it's clearly a trend, and I can see that owners of older bodies will be miffed.

They're clearly going after new customer volume, though, these days. To support that, they'll have had to make some decisions about their cost base - and I guess they've taken the calculated risk that annoying owners of what I'll call the 'transition' dSLRs (*istD series, K100/110) is worth the gain.

Of those, they'll be hoping that many will be upgrading anyway.

Yes, I'm sure you're right, John - rereading it, that interpretation makes much more sense.

Was it here, in the FAQ section at the bottom?

Well... and owners of anything from K10D 1.3 /100D Super onwards, assuming that reduced costs results in reduced prices.

In a sense, even reduced costs without reducing prices is good indirectly, if it improves Pentax profitability, and if they invest the profits well.

*ist series, agreed... there may be people with pre- 10/100 bodies that would buy the 17-70 if it had a screw drive.

But early K series bodies are manual focus, and the new KAF3 lenses will be fine with that.

I think enough of the owners of the new bodies that buy the new lenses will sell enough of the older lenses second hand for those that stick with their *ist/DL/DS to have a pretty good range of glass available.

The '100% compatibility with old bodies/lenses' thing can't be expected to go on forever. It's already gone by the wayside, given that the DAs supposedly don't give a full size image circle with the 35mm bodies.

Thanks. I'm depressed now