Not what I call them...
It is no different than store clerks that ask you if they can search your bag.
My answer is always "If I was a dope dealing serial killer with a kilo of coke and a severed head in this bag, the RCMP would need a warrant to search it. It will be a cold day in hell before I'll give up my right to not be searched to a g-damned grocery store clerk."
Same with nutjobs that think it is thier right to harass photographers in public places.
Had it happen to me once...Lady calling me a pervert...demanding to know what I was doing with a camera... I shouted at the top of my lungs "No lady I will not pay you for sex! Somebody call a cop! This prostitute is harassing me!" then I politely asked "How do you like being subjected to wild false accusations? Just becuase you are hanging around a park approaching men you don't know doesn't mean you're a hooker, and if you'll kindly f- off, I'm here photographing my own kids."

The only rights you got in this world are the ones you're willing to fight for, even then, you have to win the fight first some times. You can't let people like that decide for you if your allowed to enjoy your hobby.

There is the link: link the k-7 was supposed to have this, then the k-5.... but what about a new model?

Releasing a digital 110 alongside a k-5 with evil viewfinder seems plausible to me...

What is with the k-7????
seems the rumours were wild until 2009-2010 then the k-5 came out.... but one of the rumours for the k-7 was a hybrid pentaprism/evf that gave live view through the viewfinder... when the mirror was locked in the "Up" position... there was patent filed one by pentax and one by samsung.....
Does k-5 have an illegitimate brother the family just doesn't talk about? K-7 didn't have that feature, neither does k-5... see what I'm getting at???
perhaps a k-1??????

Is there an EVIL twin to the k-5 about to be released?????

I like to blur the line between playing and teaching.
My boy and I blew up some baking soda and vinegar rockets in the bathroom the other day.
Wife not impressed.

Boy came back today asking why vinegar doesn't burn your skin, but he remembers acids, bases and thier reactions, he also remembered the gas produced is co2.....
not bad for a first grader...

I had some success using old hard drives as gyros.... you just need to power them up and tape them to a quickflip type camera bracket... was using it as a robotic experiment....

I think the 35 macro is the best lens for you.
buy that first then look at the 16-45, and 10-17 fisheye.

was your compact shooting at 200+mm? could be vibrations and or motion blur... try a gyro stabilizer...
Try any nd grad filters? seems to me something along this line:link or maybe two nd grads one upside down to darken the top and bottom of the frame.... colored grads maybe also of use...
and the above mentioned rubber lens hood... against the glass...

I have the 35 2.4. It is a bargain. there are threads relating to it if you search a bit.

not always. even at thirty or forty below zero, here in canada, if there is fast moving water, like at the dam near my house, the cold water will steam up like a fog and settle on everything as hoar frost.... no real warmth at all...
cold water, cold air and cold everything...

just so happens the water is a bit warmer than the air so it vaporizes into a fog then settles everywhere, as the cold air won't hold moisture for long... so it settles on everything the immediate vicinity no matter how cold it is.....

on the coldest nights (we had -48 last week) the fog on the bridge over that dam is sooo thick you cannot see...

trust me there is no warm, moist air involved.... goes from liquid water to vapour in cold dry air and back to ice crystals in seconds...

keep it warm or keep it cold....

seriously...

Condensation occurs when the temp changes... as in warm meets cold...
so if you got your camera out in the cold, keep it cold until you are done shooting, wipe dry, then seal it (with your desicants if you want) in a ziplock bag with no air before taking it into a warm environment and let it acclimatize to the new temp before you open it.