Wondering what the maximum penalty is?
Article 226-1 of the French Criminal Code:
“A penalty of one year’s imprisonment and a fine of €45,000 is incurred for any wilful violation of the intimacy of the private life of other persons by resorting to any means of:
1° intercepting, recording or transmitting words uttered in confidential or private circumstances, without the consent of their speaker;
2° taking, recording or transmitting the picture of a person who is within a private place, without the consent of the person concerned.

However, where the offences referred to by the present article were performed in the sight and with the knowledge of the persons concerned without their objection, although they were in a position to do so, their consent is presumed”.

Pentax are showing a 2016 Spring debut for it and Photokina isn't until September. My guess is the 1st April as a payback for all the previous rumours that were doing the rounds in recent years.

Just to point out that the WR version of the 18-55mm lens came with cameras released after the K200D so it would be normal to find the updated non WR (AL II) version with that body. Optically there's nothing to choose.

An interesting link, thanks Gwyn.
If it helps, the actual link is:
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160118-striking-photographs-from-a-london-bus
(Gwyn's link has http repeated so it fails.)

Totally off topic, it seems odd the BBC are using the Radio Caroline bell logo at the top of that page!

Found another useful page about this confusing subject:
http://www.digitalcameraworld.com/2012/04/14/photographers-rights-the-ultimate-g...

Anyone entering this week's France and the French photo comp should be aware that the privacy laws in France seem to be very different to those in the UK. Apparently before taking a photo of someone you are required by law to ask the individual’s permission. If you want to publish it you have to ask their permission for each specific usage. Any object that is created by or is the copyright of an artist, or designer must have permissions to be published in specific contexts. Any owner of property can assert rights of ownership of property, again the photographer needs permissions to publish, regardless of whether the image was shot from a public or private space. Source. Mind, you'll do well to fully understand it!
There is more about this pertaining to other countries too on Wikimedia:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commonshotographs_of_identifiable_people
It seems you might need to be careful what you publish.
To sum up consent required for action related to a picture of a person in a public place in France:
Permission required to take the picture - Yes (with exceptions)
Permission required to publish a picture - Yes
Commercially use a published picture - Yes

I suppose pretending to take the picture in France but not really doing so gets round this!

I think my favourite lenses go back to film days. Given they're primes I couldn't state just one.
For general use the 40mm f2.8 pancake that came as standard with the ME had just the right field of view of most shots. I also had a 28mm Vivitar which was pin sharp but unfortunately fell to pieces. It was replaced under warranty but that also fell to pieces (they were glued together, not very well!) If either had remained in one piece that might have taken the crown for me. I replaced that with a Pentax M f2.8 version which was good, but didn't seem as sharp as the disintegrating Vivitars. (I still have the Pentax lens.)
A specialist lens I purchased was the 20mm f4 K which produced lovely images but unfortunately was stolen. I replaced it with an M version but that didn't seem so sharp or have such good rendering to me (however I do still have that one.)
At the longer end a Vivitar 90mm f2.8 macro proved invaluable for telephoto giving true 1:1 unlike some other macros of the time. It worked just fine for normal photography too.
Longer still I had a Tamron Adaptall 300mm f5.6 but unfortunately it was stolen with the 20mm.
So that was my basic kit 20-28-40-90-300
Later I purchased a Pentax M 50mm f1.4 which was great for low light.
I also had several zooms, but they weren't so good in those days.
One was the Tamron 70-150mm Adaptall zoom. It had its uses but again, was stolen with those mentioned earlier (along with a dented pentaprism ME.) I replaced this with a Pentax M 75-150 zoom which I still have. I think the Pentax was on this occasion an upgrade!
Another was the 40-80 Pentax M zoom. It sort of had its uses but didn't compete with the primes.
I also purchased a 24-35mm f3.5 Pentax M zoom which I found disappointing. I still have both those two.

I used those along with several compacts until the digital era when I flirted with an EOS300D but found it poor so added a K100D and the comparison was like chalk to cheese. Having already got a good selection of Pentax lenses I saw no reason to keep the Canon. Pentax's backwards compatibility was the clincher.

Now hopefully, the circle will come fully round very soon and I can go back to my old lens collection (though now having some limited primes they will probably be used over the M versions.) The limiteds aren't my present favourites as their focal lengths seem more appropriate to the 36x24 format, but guess they soon will be should I purchase Pentax's forthcoming offering in the Spring.

+ £8 PO handling fee. However some packages get through unmolested by red tape. I had a £100+ electronic gadget get though from Canada delivered without additional fees recently, and the value and content was honestly stated on the label.

If the lens + import duty + VAT + PO handling fee is still less than purchasing locally then possibly worth the risk if the seller is reliable, and who knows, the customs folk might give you a belated Christmas present and not bother to add any import fees!.

Perhaps in my case, it was over the Christmas period and everyone at HMRC was out celebrating!

It might be worth posting that in Photographyblog's comment section.

The link on the competition page just links to the forum. wouldn't it be better to link to a dedicated page explaining the full current rules for that competition. It would need two pages, one for each competition (linking to the actual forum thread may also suffice if it isn't full of old comments that put people off reading it.) Further to that, some sites make you tick a box to say you've read the rules/conditions before you can continue; if the extra wording still elicits out of course entries then possibly consider adding that as well in due course?
I appreciate it's all only a bit of fun but if someone enters in good faith and has their ineligible entry deleted they may not consider it fun any more!