I'm always a bit reticent at jumping to the conclusion that a review is biased. It's extremely insulting to the reviewer of course, and we could be quite wrong. If you take exception at his conclusions that's one thing, but suggesting it's for underhand reasons is something else.

I would guess that it's more likley that he has been pretty much wowed by the Pentax and genuinely puts that across. The end bit may have been tagged on and spoilt the flow, who knows, maybe you disagree with his conclusion, but it's more than likely his own conclusion.

If a scratch does cause some flare the problem can be solved by carefully filling the scratch with black paint.

Back on topic please, this isn't a thread about LX7 prices.

Choice is not all about price....but I will be waiting for the market price to settle from the introductory £399.00 - it won't take long I'm sure before we're all snapping up MX-1s at a very attractive level.

You can't stop down a 110 lens as they have no diaphragm mechanism. The aperture is defined by the degree of opening of the Auto 110 shutter.

If you include sky then the degree of polarisation changes acroos the field, so there will be a marked gradation in the blue.

Wide angles tend to vignette slightly anyway, leading to a darkening of the corners of an image, so in general I don't used polarisers on wide angle lenses. Not for landscapes anyway.

The standard kit zoom of 18-55mm is roughly simliar to using a 28-80mm lens on a film camera. Wide to modest telephoto.

If you want wider then the 12-24mm Pentax lens is the one of choice.

Primes for sports/nature will be the Pentax 100mm Macro, 200mm and 300mm lenses. The 55-300mm zoom will be much more affordable and also very good indeed.

I uspect that you have been a film user by what you have indicated so far. Remember the 1.5x crop factor on digital will change the field of view that you see with any given focal length.

I think there has been a tweaking of the firmware as well. I would guess that even the sensor module may have had slight improvements during its production life.

When you add any state taxes plus shipping both ways, is it worth doing that rather than trading in for a K-5 IIs? At least you end up with a fully guaranteed (2 year) camera if you buy new.

That's true DrO, although the end result will be the amalgamation of lens and sensor, so the one may not gel with the other.

I see this as a problem with lens testing these days. They have to be tested on something, but the camera used affects the outcome. It's a long way from the days when everything could be tested to a uniform standard using Kodak Technical Pan film.