We have a friend who's very much into purple as well. I keep sending her pictures of a Pentax DSLR in purple, but so far she's resisted!

The HD graphs show exactly how much transmission improvement there is. Any improvement is an improvement and it shows that development is continuing. If you're not interested, fine, but you must be just a little bit otherwise you wouldn't be looking, would you?

Nobody has mentioned the other heartening thing about this. Were the lens revamps announced months before release? No, they were all announced at once at the very end of August for availability in September. Isn't that rather snappier as introductions go? And not just one lens at a time....a whole pack of them all at once.

It's a shame, but definitely not Pentax K.

If it really is K fit it will fit without any adapter.

Any chance of posting a picture of the bayonet at the back of the lens?

It's actually rather a nice effect. Well done!

I keep the K20D because it's more than adequate for eBay images and as a backup.

The alternative is I upgrade it but I resent getting peanuts for a mint camera of 11,000 exposures. I'll run it till it dies and see how many exposures it will do before it does die.

Also, replacing a piece of satisfactory kit would be in this instance pure indulgence and although I want to, I'm not going to.

How much do you want for it? I'm sure there are a few people who would snatch your hand off for it if it's the right price.

We already have a thread on this subject, so I'll close this one.

Sounds interesting, circular apertures are good, the new HD coating sounds good.

There was no "configurability" Nigel....we were lucky to have aperture priority auto exposure. That was, of course, fiercely resisted by some who thought there was nothing that could replace a hand held meter.

Some things never change.