There's no specific link I can give you regarding source of information, as all sorts of info come my way through all sorts of contacts...but it is well established that the Samsung cameras/lenses are made by Pentax. Although there may well be differences in some minor details, they are indeed minor details.

Have a look at the products and you will be in no doubt.

Both cameras are made in the Pentax factory, as are the lenses. How similar or otherwise they are is a moot point, but I suspect very similar in most respects.

The Pentax will no doubt have a much better resale value on eBay or elsewhere.

The larger the aperture, the bigger, heavier and more expensive the lens.

The 50mm f0.95 lens was a Canon for the Canon 7 rangefinder camera system. It was a combination that was called the "Canon Dream" probably because no one could afford it...

Do we need lenses of greater than f1.4? Probably not these days. We can now just alter the ISO on our DSLRs and shoot in pretty much any light.

The f1.2 lens would have been useful for night shots with manual focusing and as a lens it was a very fine one too. You can still buy them (just) and SRS were advetising them at, I think, £399, only this last week.

But do you need one? Well, probably not, but it would be nice to have one!

Excellent shot. I'm sure you will be delighted with the lens.

We were in Suffolk a few months ago on the trail of a distant relative. This took us to Boulge, Woodbridge and area and it was photographically very rewarding.

Next time we'll be looking at Norfolk.

Learning good exposure technique is a good start. The histogram only shows you the duistribution of pixel values in an image, so don't forget that, for example, a very dark image will have lots of black pixels, so a nice even histogram is not necessarily the right thing.

I wouldn't check the histogram after every shot - you'd never get any images done!

Interesting, but I'm not sure why you would need it. You get the figure intantly in Photoshop when you resize.

Happy to report that our his 'n hers K10D cameras have arrived and Sue will be bringing them home from work tonight....The bad news is she is working till 11pm...

It looks like everyone is getting a long lesson in being patient!

Had a look at a friend's K10D last night though, and it's very nice, so the wait will definitely be worth it. The Canon and Nikon users were also very impressed.

Hello, welcome and thanks for the info!

I always maintain that there is more to buying a product than price alone. There are questions of service, backup, helpfullness and knowledge and all have a cost. So if you do find a reliable supplier that you like then a small premium in price may well be a good investment, although there is nothing to stop a little negotiation to help things along.

I paid maybe £25 more than I "needed" to for my 12-24mm lens, for example, but the other aspects of the deal more than made up for that and over the years that £25 will be long forgotten...