There have been suggestions that there can be a problem around 1/125 sec, not with any particular marque but generally. In practice, I have never noticed it, but on the other hand some shots can be sharper than others for no discernable reason.

On a tripod I use the 2 second timer and the mirror is therefore lifted out of the way before the exposure.

Talk to people. Explain what you need to do and include them in the process. Available light would be my choice, using reflectors if necessary.

It's as much about communication as it's about photography. It will become easier with practice, but if you really don't want to do it you could always decline?

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There is a limit of course, and we'll see how well the new FF fares with existing lenses, but so far lenses have proved capable enough as the resolution has increased.

It's not without precedent, because using a fast film, say ISO 400, does not show such crisp detail as using an ISO 50 one. So there has always been headroom. The limitation has often been the film rather than the lens.

The 18-135mm is one of the options in K-3 kits, so Pentax are happy enough to offer it.

I like pictures of trees and I like these!

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Rumour has it that the 645Z IR is available from January 2016. That's an interesting variant that might please some specialist photographers very much. It's intended for law enforcement but there are creative possibilities if you can afford it.

http://photorumors.com/2015/11/26/pentax-645z-ir-infrared-medium-format-camera-a...

Both originals http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002CGRR8I?keywords=Pentax%20D-LI90&qid=14485... and third party batteries are freely available from SRS and others.

We're at Thursday already and just two entries! Surely we have more pictures of fungi than that?

Hopefully the entries will start rolling in, otherwise I will have an early finish in the early hours of Monday.

Well, if you look here https://www.pentaxuser.com/community/members-search and select Posts and Descending from the pull down menus you'll see who makes most noise....but addicted isn't shown as an option.