Two Pentax cameras have been looked at in small group tests in the new issue of Advanced Photographer. Both have done extremely well.

The first group was Classy Compacts:
Fujifilm Finepix X10 87% Best in Test
Pentax Q 80% An impressive feat of desin and engineering
Ricoh GXR 79%

The second group was Medium Format DSLRs
Pentax 645D 87% Best in Test A great deal to like and lovely
to use
Hasselblad H4D-31 84%
Mamiya DM33 75%

Interestiung stuff and an excellent result for Pentax.

It's similar to the process of sending an entry to a magazine - nobody sees the entries until the winners are declared.

Actually it will eventually appear in your Portfolio, but after the competition has been judged. If in the meantime you have uploaded the images again, without ticking the box, then at some time in the future you will end up with two identical images showing.

1. 80-400mm zoom

To be honest, I have all the other lenses I need and the range is just fine for my requirements.

Although we could argue for various longer options, even if they were made the cost would be out of my range.

Please remember this is a Classified Ad and comments here should be about the process of buying and selling.

Off topic posts removed, as far as possible.

The "shortage of SLR parts" bit may go a long way to explaining the delay.

From the AP Blog:

Are you sure your Sigma lens is a Pentax bayonet Trixie? There are many other types of bayonet fitting for different makes of camera.

All the Pentax branded bayonet lenses will fit your K-x so these will not be a problem. It's best of you choose one with a Ka bayonet though, so that all the electronics couple with your camera and you don't have to mess about with manual settings.

You can tell suitable lenses as they will have electronic contacts on the mount and an "A" setting on the aperture ring. This includes all manual focus SMC Pentax-A lenses and all autofocus ones.

I have made the actual entry thread a Sticky for the duration of the competition.

That sounds like a rumour that there's a rumour!