remember the composition.... we did some whale watching with our boy here is what I found:
telephoto shots of the whales and dolphins in the water from a distance were pretty boring compared to the shots of the people and boats doing the watching....
anticipate where the action WILL be, you won't likely get much if you try to follow the action..
keep your video camera rolling the whole time...

so I had three cameras rollin.. one video cam, constantly rolling, one d-slr with telephoto lenses, and one d-slr with wide angle lens...
got my wife to use the video cam while I manned the d-slrs.. we got up high in the center of the boat and shot from there... so we could get the shots no matter where the whales and dolphins popped up.
have fun

i've seen that on photorumors...
tells us a couple things...
that font is identical to the old font used on the k1000/mx /me cameras.. so the k-mount is assured..
textured surface imply's weather sealing.. as in easy to grip when wet..

here is the fix (works for me) I use a grey card.
I set the white balance in aperture off the grey card then lift and stamp the adjustment to all the images in the set.

in your case you could choose the best white balance off one image and stamp it onto the rest in the set.

the brick part does not matter to me.. there are at least three benefits...
1) as a spare body it will fit neatly into my camera bag and take little space.
2) you can stand it, horizontally or vertically on any flat surface for steady or timer release shots without the tripod.
3) when bolted into a video rig, it will fit quite nicely along side the mic, video light, xlr adaptor, and field monitor...

after all nobody out there is calling the Red cameras ugly...
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they look like bricks.

yeah since this is the camera I've been begging Pentax to make, I've been following the rumours closely.. and comenting on various sites.. photo rumours, mirrorless rumors ricehight etc..

I'm very excited!

there's rumours and speculations and even photos and sketches floating around.
Why not post the latest ones here?

Pentax is about to release a k-mount Evil class camera based on the k-5 sensor.

digiscoping with night vision scopes would have some practical value for war journalists..

I wonder how a 400 mm lens + adaptor + Q would perform....

true but incomplete..with the correct set up & the right circumstances would be more accurate to say ...
I just think there'd be more flexibility and options in using a lens or a lens + teleconverter and having the control and options of both aperture and shutter speeds...
I agree you can have fun, experiment, and get results.... but to get consistently good results under varying conditions, I would expect the telephoto lens will outperform the spotting scope rig, just as surely as a proper macro lens will outperform a reversed lens set up...try using a reversed lens with p-ttl flash for eg... hacking something together is fine, but from my perspective, since I don't already own a high quality scope, it would not make sense to buy the scope over a used telephoto lens.

I think the important thing here is that Pentax performed so well against a much bigger consumer electronics giant like sony... says a lot about what they are capable of doing...

but remember also..Sony is still making money in the mirrorless camera category...will be interesting to see how Pentax performs there as well..because that segment of the market may very well to to d-slrs the same thing the original slrs did to medium format. large format and polaroid combined...