I'm pretty sure it does, especially spot metering.

I am looking for a Tokina 80-400mm, so by all means send me a link to your auction.

The "red focus light" does not indicate you are in focus - it only shows you where you are focusing. The green hexagon indicates focus has been achieved. This does seem to cause confusion sometimes.

When manually focusing I don't use the focusing aids at all, never did, and just visually focus using the ground glass field.

Some do find this difficult and then focusing aids come into their own. When AF becamke available though these were dropped because they can interfere with AF systems.

Here's a quote from Pentax USA on Facebook that I thought was interesting:

Varying the ISO will cause different noise structure for images side by side, so I don't think that would suit me very well. If the noise was a constant then it would be very useful.

I don't change from Av at all, unless for some special reason I need to use M, such as studio flash.

The reason is simple - shutter speed and aperture are reciprocally connected. Increase one you decrease the other.

So, if I need a faster shutter speed I just open the aperture. Sorted. If I run out of apertures I need a higher ISO.

All these options are provided so a user can decide their style of operating the camera, rather than to use different modes depending upon subject matter. After all, out ME Supers only had AV and M.

It is indeed a bug, and one that has seemed difficult to cure. I understand there are plans to improve the EXIF reporting, but in the meantime Av is being reported as Tv.

The OP made no mention of Serif Photoplus...there seems to be a run today of posts that don't follow what went before! Boldly going no doubt....

You seem to be answering the wrong thread Bill?

The trouble with CSCs is that they may be more compact than a DSLR, but they are not compact enough to mean we can do without a camera bag. So there is really very little advantage - the cameras themselves are much more fiddly than a DSLR. If some people find Pentax DSLRs too small, as some do, then they certains won't like CSCs.

AS things stand for the forseeable future, if we need a DSLR then that's the choice and we just go for the most compact one. K-r plus lens. 40mm will do nicely if ultra-compact is required.

If we need smaller, then the Q looks good, but the very small format will mean more DOF. At least the f1.9 lens will help in this respect.