Let's hope Ricoh get their appetite back for Black Friday in November.... Much as I love my FA* zooms they don't work so well with polarisers or filter systems...

Or to save up the pennies

XT2 is not a cheap beast either.... hopefully insurance will cover replacement and a nice new XH-1. Feel for you.

I don't think we'll get a chance to upgrade to the next new model for just £699... Seeing how the change from D810 to D850 was over £1000 everyone looking to upgrade was looking at at least a £2000 cost to get the new model. Those with D800/D800E will have had to spend more than £699 to get a D810 when it came out.

I am waiting for Cambrian to get stocks in.

What does Mrs Algernon have to say about this?

Was there on Saturday, looking at gear and asked whether they would honour the same upgrade deal as SRS for K1 to K1.2 (yes they would)....

their old display had obviously gone and I thought Oh dear.. but Pentax now has a prominent place in the shop itself and there was a good variety of bodies and lenses too (K3, K3II, K1, K70 etc), comment was that it was mostly ignored as most people who go in only go in for either Canon or Nikon (Cambrian are big sellers of Sony, Fuji and micro 4/3rds too).

But it is nice to see that Cambrian bucking the trend and giving our favourite brand prominence.

Some of us are committing to FF/FX........Cambrian have said they will offer the same upgrade deal as SRS.... so here I am contemplating going from DA and FA to D-FA......

If postage is too much to Dublin - I'll take the FP4 if IREK doesn't

2 things will happen when it comes out....

1) people will complain Pentax are only playing catch up

2) people will start speculating on K3iv

I will hope they bring out a camera so similar to the K3 that Ricoh will offer an upgrade for K3/K3ii for £450.

The DA*300 plus 1.4x TC is an excellent option. The DA* is a fabulous lens better than my Nikkor 300/4 which in itself fantastic.