We seem to have two alternatives here, as I mentioned in my EPZ review, just recently posted. But which variant would you buy?

The K-3 has a built in flash and is excellent all round. It also cost less than the new version.

The K-3 II has no flash, but it does have the new high resolution mode, a built in GPS unit and a built in astrotracer. The price is higher.

I'll put up a poll and we can see which one most of us would go for, just out of curiosity!

This sounds very familar - have you posted it before? Anyway, I would just set the camera to P, ISO 200 and Daylight white balance and that should be fine. My WG-£ gives me no problems.

I enjoyed using one of these for a while and they are indeed a great camera to use.

The X-5 would be the current equivalent, but to really upgrade I would suggest moving to the K-S1 DSLR. It isn't much bigger than your X-90 but it is much, much better than any bridge camera. Selfriges have them at £299 at the moment in the three "sweets" colours.

You could also send your X-90 to JPS for repair, or at least to get a quote.

Can we keep comments to the buying/selling process please.

Vic, if there had been a "Like" button to press on your post, I would have pressed it!

I think it's great that people will stop and comment, which is even better than pressing "Like". What the new button gives me though is the chance to make a positive thumbs up to an image when time dictates that there's no opportunity to comment. Or maybe sometimes that thumbs up is all that's needed and adding words would just be being verbiose. My old school had a magazine called Verbiage. The sixth form put out a spoof called Garbiage. That's just an afterthought, it sprang to mind then when I used the word verbiose and made me smile, apologies for demonstrating verbiosity in the process.

That's an impressive set.

Great stuff, glad you had a good time. If you want a fisheye, the Pentax 10-17mm is a great lens.

I do like IR images and there are some really great ones here. Well done!

I've just had a look at Pentax User on my iPad and it was absolutely fine. Is it some particular type of page that causes you problems, or everything right from the start? I wonder if it's just that it isn't fully loading for some reason.