You'd also be back to a multi-lens kit though jules and the GR lens changing isn't the most elegant of systems.

The quality is there, but for me the basic lens is the one that hits the spot. The wide adapter lens is just too fiddly and Heath-Robinson.

560mm f/5.6 seems like a long lens to me, and conveniently compact with its smaller maximum aperture.

I've got a 200mm f/5.6 Takumar here that shows how much more compact lenses can be with more modest apertures.

The speed of a focal plane shutter remains the same once the point is reached where the shutter speed is controlled by the width of the slit that crosses the sensor plane.

I was anticipating that a faster running shutter might not last as long, but then the difference of 1/3 stop isn't going to break the bank, so to speak.

As mentioned above somewhere, it might also be limited because of the SR system.

The design engineers could tell us.

It's what many have said they wanted, but when it's actually in use it's just possible it might become apparent why we don't have cameras like that any more.

Nostalgia is a powerful draw, but the truth of it is that we should be enjoying now. I'm not so sure there were any "good old days", they had their own problems which we strived to cure.

But that's part of the attractiveness of the Pentax range. It will go beautifully with the WR bodies as a versatile standard zoom. Most users have been asking for the DC motor and WR.

I for one wouldn't want a lower standard. I can wait for the price to stabilise.

It rounds out the Q range nicely. It's now a more extensive range than the 110 film system ever was, so it must be doing quite well enough to carry forwards.

I'm pleased with my Q kit, it does have a place, but tend to use it for specific purposes rather than carrying it all the time.

It descends into farce very quickly doesn't it? The whole point has been missed, but if you want to chat happily about the Nikon Df or anything else, then there is always ePHOTOzine, the sister site to this one.

There are forums for every marque there, wheras here we are a specialised site.

Now hats off to Nikon for getting the "Digital LX" out there first, albeit at the correct price level (high) so if it's successful it may well tempt Ricoh into doing the same thing. Then the "Digital LX" could become a reality. I'm sure that it's already been deeply discussed, probably time and again, by those who make the decisions.

It's interesting how quickly after the rumours started that these are coming to market.

How about feeling happy because you've shot a great picture, never mind what it was shot with?

I don't think focus peaking adds anything at all to landscape photography. The 100% pentaprism viewfinder is more to the point.