A 100-400mm would be great and it does look as if something is planned. There is the 560mm of course, and that is coming down in price a bit.

A wide zoom is also indicated. No doubt they are all at some stage of preparation, perhaps they'll be bombarding us with new lenses this year and next.

Thanks John, I already have something similar. It's quite good for the purpose, but a pouch would be more efficient I think. Provided it fits the pocket and can be easily removed that is. At least the one you show is smooth, so it is easily removable from a jacket pocket.

Still looking for the MX-1 pouch.

Negotiations are continuing with an offer by PM.

Everybody seems to be liking the MX-1, and given that I've made A3 competition pictures successfully with it, quality may not be as much of an issue after all. It will be an issue at high ISO levels, but there are limits to what it can do.

It seems once people get over the design of the K-01 it starts to look as though there's something very useful there after all. I'd still like one. I have my Marc Newson K-01 case in its box waiting for when I buy one.

I'll happily take that of your hands. If you want to PM me a price we can take it from there?

Does anyone have one of the Billingham pouches that they would like to part with?

The Tokina 80-400mm is relatively compact, although I wouldn't call it light. Optically, it needs stopping down to around f/11 or so for best results, but it is capable of decent results. However, it's not as good as the Pentax 55-300mm, so wherever you can use the shorter lens it's better to do so.

There's also a Tokina 400mm f/5.6 that is actually rather better than the zoom.

There is an odd benefit to the 80-400mm though, in that it seems to perform very well when mounted on the Q. I was quite impressed by this combination.

There is no high street photo business near us, the nearest is Manchester City Centre. There are five dealers there if we include the Leica specialist.

Locally, there used to be two in Bolton (one now), two in Leigh (none now) and our camera club (ADAPS) was started by a Tyldesley Chemist and other professionals. That was in 1938 though, definitely before my time.

Glad you're enjoying your new camera, great isn't it?

Re batteries, the K-7, K-5 and K-3 are the ones that share battery type.