W60 would be useful for its water resistance, so would complement her DSLR in rough conditions.

You definitely need to take full advantage of the guarantee and not waste a month. You also need to check the lens is OK so it could be returned if necessary during the short statutary period.

Two good reasons why you need the lens and Santa can perhaps pack up the box?

Hyram is correct with the reasoning. The idea is we have one shot at submitting an entry and then we sit, wait and watch...

If you're referring to iceblinker's comment then that's a contradiction of what was said above. iceblinker was saying that the difference was significant, whereas you had said in the quote that it wasn't much different. :

Fisheye lenses are funny things, because the strict relatioship between mm and actual field of view breaks down.

The one constant is that a fisheye lens will cover at least 180 degrees (some cover 220 degrees)either as a circle (circular fisheye) or as a full frame picture where 180 degrees is the diagonal (full frame fisheye).

In 35mm cameras, the formewr could be 6mm or 8mm and the latter could be 16mm. And maybe other figures as well.

Add to this that there are different fisheye projections and I'm not going to try and tell you what those are from memory!

On digital, the 10-17mm Pentax lens covers 180 degrees on the diagonal at its widest setting.

The other contant with fisheyes is that they all bend straight lines, unless the line is straight through the centre of the field of view.

It will be interesting to see what it will reach.

I wonder if in the further future the Samsung variants will be seen as a lower cost item, or as a highly sought after rarity for collectors?

I'm not planning on a speculative investment, but that's something else that will be interesting to find out one day.

I've just received a refund from Amazon for £0.01 (yes, one penny) because the price of my pre-ordered item has reduced before release.

This is honesty for sure, but taking things to extremes IMHO. Whatever it cost them to process this credit card refund I would have been happy for them to keep, and the penny as well.

It may well be that they will process VAT refunds in the same way, we'll find out soon!

It's also far more convenient when in a hurry to change the K10D Lithium battery than to fiddle around with the 4 AA batteries of ther K200D.

For close up and macro shots on a tripod I would always use manual focus.

I can definitely vouch for me not being the same person, so to speak...