I've been out with the K20D in pouring rain with no problems at all.

Really excellent.

The ironic thing is that these words are the argument people use to support the invasion of privacy from everything that intrudes upon our freedom - ID cards for example.

You are using them to protect your freedom to photograph, but equally well the police could have used them to take your details and investigate you. After all, if you were innocent you had nothing to fear....

If you want to use Pentax then the easiest route is to sell the Olympus on ebay and buy some more pentax stuff, probably also on eBay.

If an adapter were possible, it would likely be very expensive. Srb-Griturn are the people to ask though.

It's a thought George, although it shouldn't be necessary. I have yet to have any sort of run in with "authority" in a photographic context and only ever did once in any context. An over-zealous traffic policeman around midnight in the middle of nowhere....

We had a robust conversation during which he became quite irritated and quite irritating. He was desperate to find something wrong, but sadly could not. After a while we went our separate ways. He didn't even bother to ask for license or insurance - he just knew I'd produce them....

Very nice use of the shadow and the spaces within the frame.

What is your location Stevo?

AFAIK the NX10 uses the same sensor as the K20D.

Thanks Oggy, and good choice of charitable contribution!

Enjoy your photography Carl, that's the thing that matters most.

A lot of writers are incredibly dismissive about Pentax, and there is a lot of ignorance and mis-reporting in the photographic journals.

Pentax was indeed one of the big two names in the 1960s/1970s, the other being Nikon. Canon were not small or unknown, but I would have rated them No. 3 in the pecking order. Olympus were a late contender, not really arriving until the OM series. The other marques, and there were plenty of them, were not in the same league - Konica, Mamiya, Ricoh, Miranda, Fuji, just to name a few.

I am of course referring to 35mm SLR cameras.

As regards others, Rollei were the masters of the TLR and Zeiss and Voigtlander the masters of brilliantly crafted but clunky and expensive designs.

Things have changed a good deal, but Pentax have remained true to their design ethos.