That seems a fair retail price. You could probably get one a bit cheaper privately, but at least you can inspect that one first.

The first.

Having very much admired Tim's Balls Of Steel street photography I found myself at Limoges station waiting for a much delayed train so I thought I'd join the craze. Very difficult indeed. My technique was to hang the camera around the neck in the usual fashion but balancing it on the top of my beer gut, thus angling it upwards, and then just point the camera in peoples' faces and click away on cable release. The compo and focus came out completely randomly with my efforts. The vast majority are in cybertrash but here are some of the less bad ones of my fellow passengers, all sharing the same blank expresssion. Much better than the photos though was the fact that it was such fun and I'll have a bit more fun until someone thumps me:






















and I bumped into Jay-Z:

Congratulations Jon, my money was on your shot. Well done to Sandinista and the commendeds. Thanks Glyn for the judging and for the coveted second place. Nice to see so many entries this time.

Hi all,

I can't look in on the discussion thread, so I would just like to request that entries to the black and white landscapes competition should be black and white and landscapes and taken with a Pentax camera. Sorry, but I can't consider photos that don't match these criteria.

I hope you consider this reasonable.

Thanks,
O

Last I heard, the Kx was getting difficult to find in the UK as existing stocks were running out and there was no new production.

I wonder what the thinking is? It seemed to me that the Kx was simply the best entry level around, was attracting loads of new Pentaxians and could have run for another year. To replace it would impinge upon the Kr. I suppose they could drop the price of the Kr and introduce something between it and the K5. Or is the strategy designed to just to move to higher margins as I would imagine there is a bigger margin to be made on the Kr than the Kx.

I can't imagine finding as much to talk about as last week, but here you go.

pentax forums have lens reviews here.

I took this today with the 55-300 on the K5. It's a shame about the foreground twig but I can't blame that on the lens. The lens does hunt a bit, so to avoid that I first focus where I think the birds will be and the autofocus then doesn't have to adjust much:

I think it excludes making trainers.