It's not an encouraging comment as image quality will fall off dramatically towards the edge of the frame. The lenses may illuminate beyond their design perameters, in fact they must do, but the area chosen normally is the one where quality holds up acceptably.

The other exposure error that has always been the case is with the SMC Pentax 50mm f1.2 lenses, both plain and A versions.

With this lens we need to dial in 1 stop of under-exposure.

Presumably the mater recognises the f1.2 aperture as one stop adrift for some technical reason.

To be fair to Pentax, they say quite openly that the metering with older lenses may not be accurate, in the instruction book.

At least older lenses can be used and the assumption I would make is that those of us who are savvy enough to want to use these lenses will be able to sort out the slightly more inconvenient working methods.

In contrast, users of the Olympus 4/3 cameras will find a very expensive adapter for their OM lenses and one that can only be used at all at a limited number of apertures.

Personally I've totally moved on to A lenses and later, which makes the whole image making process much easier.

I take your point on that George. In the future this doubling up of names will become very confusing.

Looks good. So who fancies a red K-x?

So if the newcomer is the K-x then logically they must be teasing us into expecting soon a K-2?

I'm open to correction on this, but I did maybe read somewhere that when switched off the camera does still use a very very small amount of current.

If so, I would guess this is to speed up the ready time when it is switched on, a sort of standby situation.

When inserting the card the camera flashes twice to indicate that the card is recognised.

I just set the WB to daylight and enjoy any colour casts from the natural quality of the light.

Excellent colour and sharpness.