We have just ordered a Pentax AF360FGZ. £150 is about right for the price.

I'm not really a great lover of flash, apart from using studio flash for portraiture, but we've found that we do need a gun for some fill-in so this is the one that looks likely to fit the bill.

If anything, I would expect the mechanisms of DSLRs to be designed to take more use than their film counterparts, because now we can shoot hundreds of pictures for free whereas with film the cost issues kept the number of frames down.

The only real camera failures I have experienced are with the electronics of ME series cameras, including the LX. It seems that electronics have become more reliable, and the mechanical parts to a camera are pretty well worked out design-wise.

Our MV has been repaired twice in 25 years, and that is the worst performer so far. Actually, that's not too bad really....

It'e telling jokes like that that has led me to not tell any more jokes...

Digital ICE does indeed add time to a scan. In fact, film scanning is a time-consuming thing to do. For this reason, we have not digitised our back catalogue of images en block, but only as needed. After all, the originals are a pretty good way to archivally store images.

Digital Ice is virtually an essential on most old slides and negatives, but it does work very well. It does not work on black and white negatives because the blocks of silver in the image (as opposed to dye clouds) confuses it.

My favourite non-Pentax classic camera is my MPP Microcord, a very nice twin-lens reflex that is actually British. It has an unusual focal length of 77mm, but the 4 element lens is said to be slightly better than the Carl Zeiss Tessar as fitted to the Rollei TLRs.

Results from my sample were OK but not spectacular, so it remains a collectable only.

Apart from a small collection of classic cameras I also use a Fuji S7000 which is incredibly useful for shots of items going on eBay. The close focus of 1cm in Super macro mode can be quite a bonus. The quality may not be up to Pentax DSLR standards, but it's still a useful device.

A one pixel camera...whatever next.....

I've seen the new grip and handled it. It would seem perfectly fine, no wobble at all. However, I won't be turning my K10D from a fantastically well balanced camera into a huge brick!

All the lenses you list are fully compatible with the Digital SLR range, no problems whatsoever.