Good point Don, like many here video is not the thing that is at the forefront of my mind, but it's an area that the Q could be very useful in.

As regards the "Toy" lenses, I wonder if this has a different connotation in Japan, because "Toy camera" setting has been in our Pentax cameras for some time. It must be a popular technique in some parts of the world.

Pentax have always produced some oddball lenses, such as the Fisheye zooms, and some unusual focal lengths. Being unique does no harm whatsoever and may have contributed to their survival in a very competitive market place.

Slightly off topic, but I presume the 12" CD was actually a Philips 12" Video Disc?

The trigger voltage needs to be measured to be sure. Replacing the camera electronics will outweigh what you saved on a flashgun!

It depends on the sort of thing you like and which part of the Lakes you are in.

Muncaster Castle near Ravenglass would be a favourite stop for me, plenty to do and good wheelchair access as well.

As for South Lakes, as mentioned previously elsewhere South Lakes Wild Animal Park, Sizergh Castle(NT), Levens Hall and South Lakes Motor Museum are all along the same stretch and all worth a visit.

I haven't. I said I liked the look of it and I liked the concept. We'll find out how good it is in due course.

That's as far as it goes for now. What, if anything, I'm defending is a more open minded approach than that of the fairly extreme anti-views that are presented with such certainty.

You might have noticed that I bought a batch of lenses recently, a considerable batch. Now I've had a think about which ones I prioritise for my photographic style, reality has clicked in and I can't realistically keep them all.

Ideally, I wouldn't part with any of them.

It was initially hoped that the K mount would become a new universal mount, but in the end this didn't really happen. Quite a few manufacturers did take it up, but no-one really significant.

Ah well, I'm actually getting some very good results from the X90, which also has a very small sensor. Obviously I don't use it at ISO1600, but for its purpose it's excellent.

I'm also getting very good results from the I-10 and the W90.

Add a magnesium body and interchangeable lenses and I think we have something potentially useful.

I can see some are hard to convince that there's any potential whatsoever though, so we'll have to wait for some facts before this gets resolved.

If we had made the same assumptions regarding the K-5 performance, how wrong we would have been.

I think I'd rather wait and see when we have some actual information.

Not all functions can be changed on green setting, so if it can't be changed it will be greyed out as an option. Program mode will enable more items to be adjusted.