60-250 is lighter and more versatile than say 300mm I suppose But you are right. I would have regretted if I had not carried mine to Italy.

Thanks Wim, much appreciated. I think I will go with the catus. But really Pentax needs to address this.

If you plan to go countryside 60-250 is a must !! I would vote for the widest angle zoom you have as well for architecture shots inside buildings. Oh, Tripod. The Tuscan region begs for a panoramic set-up where the small primes shine.

O BTW, I did check the polarity of the flash and cable and AFAIK they are correct. The centre is +ve and the outer is -ve,

Looks like we have a thread on this already link BUT it doesn't seem to draw conclusions except that Pentax uses thyristor based solution where as other DSLRs use transistor based solution. But the question remains - what do you do when you need to use studio lights with sync cord and don't want to trigger the lights with the on-camera flash ?

I was just experimenting with the new studio lights with my K5 & K20 . When the camera (tried both on the K5 & 20D) are connected to the Studio flash (Genesis 200), the flash fires just the first time, the subsequent shutter clicks just doesn't trigger the lights. Am I missing something completely obvious here ? The camera's own flash is locked shut (I don't want it to fire).

Thanks in advance

These are some superb pictures and pp, bob. I like the Chester clock one best. In fact, the 'invisible time' adds to the picture IMO I'd leave it the way it is. The texture on the ground takes the cake though.

Voigtlaender 20mm F3.5 & Pentax 40mm F2.8 . Tiny jewels, they go everywhere the camera goes.

Another spin if I may

Truth = interpretation of evidence that is available at that particular point of time.

A few years ago the brightest minds around thought that atoms were indivisible. Even if we see something happen with our own eyes, when we relate the same we 'interpret' the event according to our preconditioning . So technically there is no truth . The 'power' of truth comes from how many people believe in it.

ergo : one can argue till the cows come home or make pictures (exotic lens/ PP / timing / luck /providence...) and have fun

The C swear word + G1x looks terrific as well