All sorts of things, so "all of the above", but not necessarily with your lens choice! For example, telephoto lenses are great landscape lenses.

You're quite right.

I think what I was really trying to say was that I didn't feel that the K7 was particularly different to any other Pentax DSLR in any way that wouldn't be ironed out pretty quickly by getting to know it. I didn't have any particular reaction to it other than to note that it was slightly different shape-wise and that it would take a short while to get used to the placement of everything.

I tried it with the 60-250mm lens, which seemed well balanced to me.

As with all previous models, I personally wouldn't spoil it (as I see it) by putting a grip on.

Very sorry to hear of your loss Yves, we get very close to our animals and are bound to feel it when we lose them.

Melness, you have not read your Private Messages.

Despite wondering whether I'll use this focal length much, I couldn't resist the all-in price of £216 on Amazon, so for the second time I ordered a lens via their Marketplace.

As before, it duly turned up, posted in the UK, the first time from Simply Electronics and this time from Best British Bargains. No problem with the charging, the delivery or the goods sent.

The lens itself is of course ultra-compact. It's also beautifully made and has a very unusual and intriguing lens hood/lens cap design. It snaps instantly into focus on my K20D.

No results yet, but I'll post something when I have something!

I handled a K7 recently - it's like everything else, if I had one I would get used to it. More to the point is that when we upgrade to the K7 we will need two of them - one for each of us. That makes it an expensive proposition at the start of its run, so any purchase for us will be at the end of its life cycle.

We haven't had the K20D for long....

That's better!

Unfortunately people will still steal our images, but if they get caught then action can be taken. However, the web is a big place and theft can be difficult to spot.

Why not start a thread in the Your Photos section?

Any Pentax adverts?