Fantastic, have a great time and do please post some images for us to see!

OK, we don't have to fight over this one.

The 110 Pentax was a brilliant bit of design and is quite beautiful, of that there is no doubt. It was the best of any of the 110 cameras.

The weakness of the system will always be the lack of a pressure plate in the 110 cartidge (just as in the 126 cartridge) because the film cannot be held accurately enough in the film gate.

Both points of view have merit so no need to come to (verbal) blows!

You've pretty much got it sorted. This is one instance where I might use a protective filter on the lens to avoid salt damage.

It was probably better thatn the K10D and the K20D in that the exposures were more accurate.

Only a first impression though as I don't have a K7 myself. Yet....

Nice one, the composition holds us well within the image. It's always difficult to know where to crop with these and you've got it just right.

Please remember to just stick to the sale process in Classifieds. Thanks. Posts which bring in other unrelated matters may be deleted.

The K7 works brilliantly when the integral flash is used to trigger external Pentax guns. Either with or without the camera's flash adding to the exposure. I was trying it out the other evening and it was fantastic.

The Zuiko on the 35SP should be good, being a 7 element design, but unfortunately the shutter release on the camera operates so many linkages that it's quite stiff to operate. This means camera shake can be a real problem and that spoils the lens performance somehwat.

The XA I haven't tried.

The Yashica lenses are actually some of the best of this style. Pity about the battery they chose for the cameras as these are now rare and expensive.

There are always exceptions to any generalisation, I accept that.

Very interesting test, many thanks for sharing the results.

Pentax led the field with SLR designs that were elegant and which swept away the clunky leaf shutter SLRs and the slow to use rangefinders. The viewfinder, instant return mirror, automatic diaphragm on later lenses and so on.

The cameras were easier to use, better made and cheaper than most others. In fact considerably cheaper than the Voigtlander and Zeiss products.

Now the rangefinders (excluding Contax and Leica) that you are talking about here were more or less universal for amateurs, but the quality of the lenses was never up to SLR standards. I've used stacks of them from all sorts of manufacturers. They cost around £50 when Spotmatics were more like £145. Some are not bad but I wouldn't use them by choice.

Pentax concentrated on the market they were leading - SLR cameras and lenses.