Don't forget - we haven't got your expectations and are viewing things as presented - and that's fantastic.

You made very good use of your visit. I love them all.

Magnificent set that captures the wild loneliness of those beaches perfectly. ...... so different to the idyllic calm emptiness of the same places on a sunny summer day.

Thank you Gareth, John. I'm looking forward to the wild garlic flowering now.

I have to say that the bit that has been putting me off is the oily blades. Folk often say, "it's a pre-set so it doesn't matter." Just you wait until the oil dries and they stick together - then they buckle and go 'twoing!', which is why so many Meyer Optik 100s, 135s and 200s have got damaged iris blades. If you see oil on any of those don't touch it with a barge pole. I mention this solely to debunk the 'manual, pre-set' myth. I will purchase the beast and have a go with it please. PM sent.

The second one is a marvelous 'moonlight' shot. It does look like that filter is producing a colour cast though.

No shortage of things to point a camera at there! Fascinating collection of images.

OOOH these are nice, and as was commented above, you need to notice the potential of the scene first before you can capture them.

I rarely set the ISO below 800 on my K1i except for tripod work on static subjects (when I miss the K5's ISO80 ! I don't see the K1ii as being worth the extra cost personally and if you don't use the flippy screen then why buy a K1 at all when the K3 is such a fine camera? I really like my K1 and the advantages of the FF and you can blow the images up to mammoth sizes! (Or staggering crops). But again, if that's no use to you then why pay for it?

Beware the Pentax ones which appear to have been made mainly for the M series cameras. The odd one fits K series but generally, their eyepieces are about half a mm less wide and you can't get the things to fit. You can't file off the excess either because the retaining springs fall off (been there, got the T shirt).