Bears are very sensible creatures. I run a mile from anyone brandishing a courgette too. Once they've given me one they will dump their entire harvest on me, having found out for themselves what a totally useless vegetable it is when one doesn't have bears to frighten off.

I've seen a couple of those on Marktplaats over the years.

There were lots of 3D cameras at Photokina though, both still and video.

Ah well maybe in two years time. Who knows what goodies they'll be offering us then.
Probably a 3D camera.

Earlier than last year then. I was over in October last year and there was very little in. I nearly had to do without Christmas Crackers. Luckily T.J.Max had some.

Maybe it's time to plan a shopping foray. Mid to late October sounds about right, maybe in Watford?

We are looking to escape New year this year. I hate fireworks and am just fed up with it all. I'd like warm - he'd liked cheap.

Someone on another forum asked me that too - no is the answer - only on multi coloured K-rs behind glass. I confess I did not spend long looking at the K-r though.

Are you still going Stefan?

You would gain nothing - the tripod is rated for the weight of the head plus whatever you put on the head. So an 8kg head is pointless on a 5kg tripod.

I was kind of answering both Dr Orloff and Noel in one go.

Red. Eekhorns.

Beautiful creatures.

My dogs love chasing them up trees in the woods..

Sorry I can't help. I have a Markins ball head, which has two knobs and works superbly.

Manfrotto also do a pistol grip head. I have been tempted, but since the Markins uses an Arca Swiss QR plate I don't want to have to faff about with another sort of plate, or have the added expense of adding an A-S plate to the pistol grip.

I don't think there was a problem with putting the new lens on an old camera per se. They just didn't want that example put on an older camera.
Maybe they were worried about it getting damaged or someone walking off with it if they got distracted. I don't know.
It is the K-5 which is super fast at AF not the lens. The new lens will work on older models, but won't be as fast as on eh K-5.

Firmware was needed on the K10D to enable SDM so firmware updates for lenses are not that unusual.

The point about backward compatibility is that old lenses will work on new bodies, not necessarily vice versa.
SDM only lenses only work at MF lenses on older bodies after all.