I'm inclined to agree with Steve, that would do it.

Yes, you could take a Q7 and lenses and that would do it as well. It depends on what you want and how you like to shoot your pictures, what type of pictures you do shoot and so on.

Your full kit is a bit much though for a holiday that includes lots of travel.

The other option is to think of the Limited primes, and so the choices magnify as we go.....

This is all highly debatable. A sensor such as used in the K-3 has 24 MP, but the sensor is overlaid by a pattern of coloured filters called a Bayer pattern. That's because sensors are black and white by nature. So, small groups of pixels are interpolated to "guess" the colour at each pixel. Then it's all assembled as a full colour image of 24MP.

The Foveon sensor has three layers, each sensitive to red, green and blue as in a colour film, stacked on top of each other with appropriate filters blocking different colours of light for the three layers. The argument is that therefore each pixel site has accurate RGB information so we can multiply the resolution by three. Also, that colour is more accurate as a result.

However, there's no visual evidence that this is actually so and personally I don't like the look of Foveon images.

Just try it and see, but I expect the 645D will have a slower flash synch speed because of the much larger shutter. What that is will be detailed in the operating instructions.

You'd need a poll to establish that, but I routinely use ISO 400 with cameras from the K-5 onwards.

I've never found any difference in manual focusing. I suspect it depends much more on the acutance of the human eye.

Excellent Philip, many thanks.

You have inspired my creativity there. If that is actually a proper readout of a RAW file, if it were a portrait I could see that blended with the actual image in some way.

If you want to show us how to do that, please start a new thread.

Looks like you're instantly at home with the K-3, well done.

Although it's of academic interest, it is irrelevant in the context of this thread. The OP is a film user who does some digital imagining but has a limited computer system. Solutions need to be fairly basic so the PC can deal with them apart from anything else.

Incompetent, irrelevant and immaterial seems like a good phrase, if only because of which old TV series I'm currently working through and I've always wanted to say that.

In other words, back to the point please.

That does really hurt. The best laid plans get easily disrupted sometimes.