Good thinking Glyn!

Now I can see them all. Never thought about Adblock Plus being the culprit.

A man in black?

Take only the 40mm and your companion cannot possibly complain. Well except that you can't get a wide angle view of that building, or a close up of that donkey on the other side of the field, but apart from that what's to complain about?

Shamishen - tough to play.

He plays both and yes he plays in two bands - one is called the Opa's . They play weekly together and then he plays with another band once a month. Never for money, but they do perform at birthdays and the like on occasion. He also plays at home daily, and records himself too.
I used to play bass guitar but my arthritis put a stop to that sadly.
My middle son also plays guitar really well, and the youngest is a drummer, so we had our own house band for a while .

My daughter in law has a birthday coming up. Together with her parents, and my son we'd like to buy her a DSLR.
In the past she had a Canon analogue camera, and took fantastic photos with it.
We don't want to spend much more that around €500 for it, including a lens of course. Her father is currently unemployed and so they can't contribute much and we don't want to outspend them so to speak.

Now my inclination is to go for the K-x, as I have seen the results from it here, and heard how enthusiastic people are about it. But I wonder whether she would begin to get frustrated with it fairly quickly? Or do you think it would suit someone going digital for the first time, even though they know a lot about photography.

I will consider other brands for her too, but will have to do some research into what is available at that price point. I don't think she is especially loyal to the canon brand. At least I hope not, though I'll look at them too.(wash my mouth out with soap ).

Ideally we'd get her the K7 and the WR lenses since they live and work on a sailing boat but that is far too expensive for us all.

Originally I'd been toying with the idea of giving her the K20D when and if Pentax bring out a new model, but this idea came up too soon .

I know where they are Stefan - I just don't see the list you quote, only the K-x, unused, boxed, Pentax guarantee.

That is tapping - it comes originally from bass players and guitar players have developed further.
She does play it normally too link.

My husband plays mostly blues - fingerpicking and bottle neck, but also rock and pop.

It is a lap steel guitar Stefan.
Nice .

Like Dan I only see the K-x body. I've clicked on all the categories but that's all I see .

You could always set yourself a real challenge and take only the 40mm .

Looking at last years photos - lovely place btw- I think the two widest lenses are the way to go. The only one which would benefit from more zoom is the donkeys.

Maybe you could post a link to a couple of photos if you don't want to post them here?

I'd say the 18-55 too, though I agree with Doug that the 40mm is so small it would tuck in somewhere and then with the 18-55 on the camera you could manage the 50-200 too.

But I don't think you'll need the length by the sound of it, unless those cows play hard to get.

Oh and Doug - she already has a severe case of BBA - she doesn't need any encouragement to go out and buy another one .