I considered switching to Nikon. But it just cost too much to get the equivalent lenses to those I have for Pentax. Now I have the K5 I am committed to Pentax for the foreseeable future, and perfectly content with that.

Tamron do seem to have given up on Pentax, but Sigma are doing a sterling job bringing out new lenses in Pentax fit. If I could have found someone to talk to at the Tamron stand at Photokina I would have asked them about it, but I saw no one there.

This forum was created by the folks at PU/ePhotozine. It may look like standard forums, but it isn't.
The smilies you can just fish off the net any time you want. They happen to have chosen the basic set which is most used in PhpBB.

If there is spam or you want to complain then use the report problem button at the bottom - the mods respond pretty fast to that on the whole.

The problem with an abuse button is that it gets abused. Someone feels offended and instead of sorting it out by PMs or even on the forum they press the abuse button. It happens all the time on another forum I am a member of. Usually resulting in the thread being pulled, or someone gets a temporary (or even permanent) ban and it is never clear why.

Ooo what a cutey! And I don't even like cats

I hope you have lots of fun with B.S for many many years to come.

Great pet portrait btw .

So far so good HG.

I've not had much time to test it thoroughly - too busy with the K5, but I do like it. It has proper SR and 10x zoom. Slips into an ill-fitting trouser pocket very nicely. And sits very nicely in the hand. The green isn't too horrific either .

There are lots of things you can set yourself as well as a huge range of modes to play with. I haven't tried the video on it yet, as I'm only using an old, slow SD card in it at the moment.

CameraNu in the Netherlands has Katzeye for Canon and Nikon. You could try contacting them to see if they can get them for Pentax too.

Infact http://www.fotokonijnenberg.nl/productlist/44228/matglazen.html have them for Pentax K10/20 on their site.
The link is to a Dutch page, but they have an English site too.

I've just got the Optio RZ10. My first compact. I like it so far, even the lime green colour .

I have a phone from the stone age so no camera on it, and no desire to update it - it works and does all I need.

I have found a couple of things I don't like.

One is the door/slot for the SD card and getting the damn card out of the slot. No nice lock on it like on the K10D/K20D but back to a springy door. And a really tight slot for the card. Very hard to get it out.

The other is that SR is now buried in the menus.

I know neither of these are probably news to K7 owners, but they are my only niggles so far.

Otherwise so far so good. No exposure problems, like I had with the K20D. And I can carry it around without one shoulder ending up 6" lower than the other one..

Took the RZ10 out with me too just to give it a go. It will take some getting used to - not holding it up to my eye to take a photo . Slips nicely in a pocket though so I shall take it out more often I think.

I'm not putting any photos up as they are all snapshots and playtime photos at the moment.

Your a busy man Gareth.
My daughter-in-law works at a day care centre which takes kids until they start school at 4. She loves it, playing with the 2-4 year olds all day long (amongst other stuff of course :wink. Plus she has the energy over to play with her own two when she gets home.

Shame Ikea sold out of sons. I can recommend them.

Me .

I'm going to download this onto the netbook. My manual is falling to bits already .

We had visitors last night .

Finally got to have a bit of a play this morning, but the weather is not good - grey and miserable, so I haven't been out with it yet.
Plus I've got the RZ10 to play with too.


So far I am very happy with the K5. It feels good and is easy to operate. Obviously it will take a while to work everything out and assign buttons appropriately but so far so good.

No extensive tests from me I'm afraid.