I'm sure it isn't George. Someone on a Dutch forum pointed it out. They too are getting fed up waiting for the new Pentax lenses, and were worried by this review. Others on that forum have tried to convince them that they are making too much of this review. It will be interesting to read a their review of the Pentax lens though.

Hopefully the Pentax gets a better write up than the Tokina -http://www.photozone.de/8Reviews/lenses/tokina_1650_28_nikon/index.htm

That particular Tokina, and a lot (most) of the others aren't available in Pentax mount. It seems Tokina thinks there are only two manufacturers of cameras nowadays

Sorry Don, but why would Pentax even want to produce a full frame camera? The price of such a beast would not affect K10D sales one little bit.
But we digress. It seems to be the lot of the Pentax owner to have to wait....and wait......and wait. Then wait some more because demand has outstripped supply....again.

If you get one with just a standard screw fit you can always add a head to it if you feel you need it. You can't take the head off one which comes with it fitted normally.
If you use an Arca Swiss style QR plate on your camera you could consider the Kirk/Manfrotto monopod tilt head. Pricy but good by all accounts and it saves having to take the QR plate off your camera to use the monopod. http://www.kirkphoto.com/g3232.html

Yes that's more or less what the Sony one does. I see it now comes with software so you can use it with any camera make, used to only be with Sony. The otherone is bigger and more complicated to use from the reviews I have read.
Nice gadget if you're off in the boondocks somewhere or if you want to link your photos to Google Earth for instance.
More important things to spend my europennies on at the mo, but one built in to a camera would be neat!

I just hope that there will be one.

However, live view would be good, maybe with a tiltable screen. Olympus have live view and it must be possible for Pentax to do it. A battery grip that talks to the camera, so that it will switch from one battery to the other as required would also be useful, it seems to me. 12MP is almost compulsory to keep up the craze for more pixels.

A fun accessory, certainly one I would buy would be a gps device that can put the gps info into the EXIF. I know Sony do one, and that would be great to have. Maybe Pentax could build one in to the new model

I love the Old Battery! It is a wonderful place to walk to. We've stayed at a small hotel just by the footpath entrance that goes to it, and went there every evening. The smell of the wild honeysuckle and the gorse was intoxicating.
Never saw the coast though. Good shot, puts it all in scale, I spotted the winchman dangling there looking small against the Needles.

Pity you aren't visiting Holland instead of the UK. I bought a set of extension tubes a couple of weeks ago from Kamera-Express, with AF, (not that that is any use) for €119. I could probably have got them cheaper elsewhere, but I was in the shop, and they were in stock.....They are Soligor ones btw.

A friend had the Slingshot but when he saw the Pentax one he bought it and sold his slingshot. I don't know what he liked more about it, he was less than clear on that point. Maybe he just has more money than sense. He isn't even a Pentax owner!

Looking at the sizes of the Slingshot 300 it may fit a Bigma, but I'd need to see it and try it out before forking out my €100 on one. Meanwhile I'll stick to my Tamrac backback.