An A series lens would be the better choice given the camera body, there are many third party lenses available at reasonable prices, does it HAVE to be Pentax?

Are we really bothered?, winner will probably be a canon user

I own Goths all over the world an apology for my previous comment regarding make up, I must try and curtail my facetious behaviour. I have no problem with anyone of either sex who likes to wear make up, to each his own I believe.

PS next Saturday I will be wearing a Denim jacket and cowboy hat, if you want to ridicule me then I'm all for it

Agree with Gwynn, quite common practice with many photo comps. its a cheap way of gathering a stock of usable pics, they give the winner a couple of grands worth of kit and in return get hundreds of royalty free images, a lot cheaper than using an image library or employing a pro.

Don't worry HG, my Goth mate admits he used to wear make up, he grew out of it

See you at the bottom of the steps at 10 then, or are you coming for breakfast

You can joke HG, I invited a Goth along my self (Canon 350D user:blush, he got into photography a year or so ago, I thought he might like to try his hand at portraits, but he's busy that weekend.

That piece is old news Mike, the writer searched the net for juicy snippets and used many of the quotes out of context, she also used others peoples images in the original article and didn't own up to them not been her own work until someone left a reply commending her photographic skills, even then she continued to use the images without permission, so it would seem her number one rule is rather hypocritical To be fair a lot of what she said makes sense, she just used the wrong people as an example and stole a few pictures, it doesn't bother me (they weren't my pictures),
The fact remains that there will be a lot more people at Whitby that do want their pictures taking than those who don't, you can ask politely and they can refuse politely, no big deal.

I wonder how people watching my 300mm A* belong to this forum

Wear a mask and no-one will know its you

Many happy returns of the day Barrie.