I'd be quite happy to use a Ricoh K-mount DSLR. I've owned Ricoh products before and I've always been more than happy with quality and reliability - a good marriage.

Cheers Lilly - I was lacking inspiration then I saw your entry and shot off with the picture in my hand. I'll split the prize if I win...

Not really, Hoya are glass specialists so I would expect them to keep overall control of lens production but camera bodies don't really sit well with the rest of their portfolio, hence I think it would make sense to get them made by either one of the electronics heavyweights (like Samsung) or an independent who likes a challenge (Cosina).

I don't think Pentax's death knell is being sounded just yet...

As long as the K-mount survives I'm not that bothered which name appears on the front of the products. Samsung would seem a natural partner but I wouldn't rule out Cosina, Seagull, Ricoh, KMZ/Zenit...

A link up with someone like Seagull (with huge manufacturing capacity, experience and links to the Chinese market) could be a very good thing for the future of Pentax.

My favourite field, where I like to sit and contemplate the views over the Vale. The oldest records we can find show my family was living around half a mile from here in 1640 - now 369 years later I live around two miles from here; we don't get around much!

The photo in the frame was taken around the beginning of the last century in this same field and shows my Grandfather and Great-Grandfather operating the very first tractor in Aylesbury Vale.

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EXIF: K10D | DA12-24 @ 18mm | ISO100 | f/8 | 1/125 sec | B+W conversion in Photoshop 5
Taken 18 August 2009

I think the link's been changed in the first shot...

That last one reminds me of why I stand *behind* the camera...

Gotta get myself one of those hotshoe-mounted Dannys!

Hmmmmmm.... The serial number on that DA35 looks suspiciously familiar...

Funny to think the first insect macros it's ever taken weren't by me!

Well, it was a warm day and we'd been out a few hours...

I've started a new thread in the Your Photos section for shots from the day - just put a few up to start us off.