Thanks Chris - I have to get the OH on side first I think. He always sees better destinations for spare money than cameras - like guitars .

Oh it says on their site that they only do UK deliveries. Mmmm, better smile sweetly at the OH then

Thats nearly 200 euros cheaper than here, and only about 50 euros more than the K100D Special. Mmm, I'm in the UK next month...can I divert through Watford I wonder

Pity SRS don't post abroad

Food is usually photographed in a redder light. It just looks better that way. However I agree a reflector of some sort would have helped here, and also that the focussing is a little odd.

Plus why would you want to ruin perfectly delicious clotted cream with ricotta or another cream? And your scones imho need to be fatter and less diameter to be real scones!

I have seen a couple of K10D's advertised second-hand - being sold as too complicated for the user. They have gone straight from a P&S to K10D, attracted by the price and the SR etc etc, but then found out they don't know enough to use it. Maybe if they had gone for the K100D they would have been happier. They could then have done as I did when I got the Ds - used it in auto and in scene modes until I got the feel for it then started to use manual and to really develop my skills. But it took a while, I was intimidated by the idea.
So I don't see anything wrong with starting with a K100D to learn on. You can always move on to the K10D (or whatever follows it) when you feel the need to be stretched more, or feel that the K100D doesn't offer you all you need anymore.
I still love my Ds, but would love some of the goodies like SR that are on the K10D. I may buy one eventually, but I can't honestly say I need it yet.

SRSmicrosystems have body only for 449 pounds.

I'm hoping they drop the price in Holland too - this is the first time the UK has been cheaper than the Netherlands.

Great photos. I really like the reddish colour to it - you should be rightly proud of that photo. I like the second one too - it shows what a fantastic storm you had.
I love a good thunderstorm!

Ow! That looks expensive! glad you weren't hurt in the shunt.

In my case I'm the granny and I don't do self portraits

So far no complaints. I don't take a lot of portraits, and then mostly of my grandson, but I am happy with the results. And the victims of my efforts haven't complained yet, well Merlijn might to if he could speak, but nobody else has.....Maybe they are all just too polite