There was a batch of 100 of these made IIRC when Hoya was the owner so there must be a small but steady demand to make it worthwhile. No doubt the high unit price will make it more worthwhile.

Do you have focus peaking activated? Is there focus peaking on the K30?

Ah, but when you try to sell them it's the results that count. The prices I get for P and O consistently higher than any other marques, apart from the occasional rare vintage lens of course. The Pentax lenses (and Oly) always sell whereas other marques don't.

We could interpret the figures a number of ways, as it suits us Andrew. We could say there are fewer lenses for sale Pentax fit because users want to keep them, not sell them. We could say it's because not many were ever sold. So the figures themselves don't really mean anything.

Judging from how I'm doing at the moment, the K20D is more highly sought after than the K10D or K7. Next month it might be different, but all Pentax bodies will sell and all Pentax lenses will sell.

I still have Nikon and Minolta lenses and bodies that have failed to sell several times.

The more unusual lenses in every marque will sell though. I've done very well with Exakta recently.

Not sure how you are measuring this, but in terms of selling lenses on eBay the stars are Pentax and Olympus.

Not absolutely necessary at all.

Many filters can be added afterwards in Photoshop, so digital means that probably only a polariser is needed, but it's optional not necessary.

ND Grad filters might be desired by some.

Please don't link to other marque reviews. Many thanks.

I think Exiles that your problem is a faulty camera. It's not a design fault.

It needs sending back for a quote for repair. I'm not sure what your location is, but there must be an approved repair house to return it to.

Believe it. I only use Pentax lenses, but even the two Tokinas I have used were fine as well.

I'll have a look when I can. Not sure there's anything scintillating as they were too far away, but the focus was locking on just fine. Centre focus by the way.

When you say plenty of people Peter, not that many actually.

The K-5 was, and is, an amazing camera. In terms of focus speed it's pretty snappy as far as I can see. It depends also on the lens of course and I was quite happily tracking birds in Scotland.