Not buying (I already have a K-3 plus grip) but do you have the plastic cover for the electrical contacts? It's supposed to sit in one of the recesses when the grip is attached to the K-3/K-3ii.

you're looking for another 60-250 - can I help???

Uh oh fire sale coming, if that's the example of your pricing....as I might want to get the 70-200 f2.8 as well

resist Resist RESIST Peter

Some of us are on our 3rd motors for our 16-50s John. Even the chap who fixed mine last time (Asahi Photo) said that even new batches contain duff motors and need to be sent back....

I have had a defective 60-250, replaced under warranty and has been fine since.... that one failed before my 16-50 failed for the first time.

DA*60-250 f4 has one...

Could Pentax not re-engineer the internals of this lens, remove the baffle and update the focussing system to become a D-FA 60-250 f4? All K-mount fans would rejoice.

They are off and doing their own thing - look at ValdaChinnery.com.

A huge gripe I've heard about L&L is that the tours are very highly structured (standard views etc) and the tutors do their own thing. I prefer tours where the tutors spend their time looking at everyone's composition and output but mostly they point their own cameras, some check more than others (Robert Canis is one of the better ones, while Charlotte Gilliatt does her photography in her own time)...

I know Doug very well and done a few courses with him - the stuff he has done with L&L since is way different to what I've done with him, and the current ICM stuff isn't my thing..

Would've been good to read his blog, and follow what has happened to him this year, especially since April - this would've probably hinted at what you might expect on his courses (or those remaining with L&L)....

For old classic Doug Chinnery stuff I'd check out his protegees Charlotte Gilliatt and Terry Gibbins

Cambrian have an event on the 24th in Colwyn Bay, as they are a Pentax stockist (although the owner is a true Fujiphile) I'll be checking their site, as well as SRS, from the luxury of my hotel room in Bologna.

Good to still see some independents surviving.

Time to sell the Sigma I think Gareth, I;ve got a HSM EX Sigma Macro that since my Nikon D810 received a firmware upgrade it won't work at all. Sigma wanted £50 to upgrade the lens... I decided against that and asked if they would change the mount from F to K - No, they said. So, I will sell it (for a fraction of what Mike is asking for his K-mount version)

My Nikon D810 is at Nikon for a clean - looks as though an Ebola victim has coughed in the shutter box....Yet, the rocket blowers suffice with the K-3 and K-1...and it's not as if the Nikon gets more use than the K-1...