On a hill can still end up flooding. In some parts of Wales houses have been known to flood when it is discovered they are built on the path of ancient and defunct streams. In severe weather these streams can become live again and just pour through properties.

There will always be offers, it works both ways, and SRS have been/are considerably less expensive than Amazon on quite a few Pentax lines.

As it's not a regular price, I would suggest Amazon have done a deal on a large amount of stock at an advantageous price.

Recently SRS did the same with the K-3 II.

You could just copy the images across to a folder on your computer.

I just make folders describing the set of images, usually from a single day's shoot, so the folder name might be "Haddon Hall 08 12 2015" - doing this does not require importing into anything. The files can be opened from this folder using Bridge or whatever program, perhaps Camera Raw if you are using Elements.

Just a couple of caveats. One is that the article was written in 2013, and in two years a lot can change. The other is that it doesn't claim that this is true of all manufacturers, so it may or may not be a current issue and it may or may not apply to Pentax cameras.

Philip's results would seem to suggest that it is not a Pentax issue.

However, to be honest I always use ISO settings of 200, 400, 800 and so on, and always have.

Pentax call it SR (shake reduction) and the in-body system seems to work very well.

But for capturing birds and other fast moving subjects it's not helpful, whether in camera or in lens. The reason is that there's a small delay whilst SR locks in and also that reducing camera shake does nothing at all to reduce subject movement.

So for fast moving subjects we still need high shutter speeds and when on a tripod we need SR switched off. In the latter case, the two second delay switches off SR and also raises the mirror two seconds before the exposure is made, allowing any mirror vibration to subside.

Thanks Philip, that's what I would expect.

I think the original question relates to whether or not settings that are between the main 100/200/400 etc steps exhibit more noise than the main settings. So, ISO 320 could be noisier than ISO 400., for example.

In a simplistic sense it's hard to see why this would be so if ISO is in effect just a turning up of amplification. However, there may well be much more than that going on, so the only way to be sure would be to ask the engineers, who are not accessible to us, or run an experiment to find out.

Lenses are a very personal choice. I always found 135mm a bit long and became very fond of the 100mm f/2.8 lenses.

On that basis, the 70mm f/2.4 would be an ideal lens for me, and when I had one to trial it was a firm favourite straight away. I've never bought one, but only because the focal length is available on my zooms anyway.

One of these days!

I think they are being passionate danGR, not angry. I doubt that anyone is offended either!

It was a good discussion to start, and you've arrived with a bang rather than a whimper, which is fine.

Samyang lenses can be excellent, but manual focus only.

Pentax do make an 85mm lens, in a way. The equivalent for APS-C format is the 55mm f/1.4. They also make a 70-200mm f/2.8, which is the 50-135mm f/2.8.

I've noticed quite a few photographers think in 35mm format terms when asking for focal lengths. Often what they are asking for already exists.