Very poky inside. No I never got to fly on it, but I did get to go on board the first BA one at Heathrow, when they had a family day before it started service.

My youngest brother got a trip on Concorde for his 40th birthday from my eldest brother - me? I got a bottle of cheap Champagne. And I don't even like Champagne

Scary stuff

At least the mounted police went either side of you not through you.

The police don't seem to have been to bothered by the huge number of photographers there, which has to be a good thing.

English till they die but carrying the stars and stripes and the cross of St Andrew too?

Makes one proud to be (half) English. Not.

When Hoya took over Pentax it was always said that they only wanted the medical side of Pentax and would sell off the camera division. They haven't done yet, but maybe this is the start of Hoya rationalising their business and the cameras could yet go I guess. Maybe that's why things are a bit quiet on the lens/new body front too but I hope not.

US immigration do seem to be developing a sense of humour at last. The last two visits they were friendly, joking and one even apologised for us having to wait an hour in the queue .

Is the weather as cold and miserable where you are as it is here??

Only Pentax, but I agree with John this is another pointless thread.

I assume this will have no affect on Pentax but who knows?

http://tinyurl.com/2a5z37j

Funny how those who go to the dark side keep hovering around the light though .

That certainly sounds impressive!

A few years back we went to Boston for this company - the US immigration guy asked why we were visiting - I said holiday, husband said work. So we explained I was tagging along. What work asks the IG - defence says my husband. Who's - yours or ours? asks the IG

No.

It's mostly salt around Hengelo, but he's not in that industry either.

He started off in the Space Industry, doing on-board software, then moved on to chips, and is now a consultant, a qualified Quality Auditor, though he designs the quality systems nowadays. He worked at Eurocontrol for years and is currently at the other major employer in Hengelo making sure missiles and the like do what the software intended they should.

I personally am shocked by this as I married a pacifist who would never do defence work. However beggars can't be choosers and it's a contract that will see him to his pension.

Ah so the damage is not on the prism but on the prism casing? I was wondering how you had damaged the prism.

Puts a different light on the camera all together.