Original K lenses are marked SMC Pentax. M lenses are SMC Pentax-M. A series lenses are SMC Pentax-A.

The sad thing about all this is that it's far from confirmed. All that was confirmed was that R&D was in progress, which we would have expected anyway. This might be very advanced and just waiting for the green light, or not so advanced and needing more work. We have no idea apart from a vague "from 2013", although it might happen if Pentax decide it's necessary ASAP.

I hope it doesn't dissuade people from buying now, because they could be waiting longer than they think. Of course, equally well I could be wrong, but I wouldn't personally hang around for something that's speculation.

Having found a scam site, actually linking to it doesn't seem very wise, so I've removed the link.

Ah well, so much for being discrete, it was Jessops of course.

The point is to make it backwards compatible with cropped sensor lenses. New lenses would use the full sensor. This is what some Nikon DSLRs do now.

Depending on the design, it could well be that any FF DSLR would automatically change to APS-C format (using only part of the sensor) when DA lenses are attached. It is conceivable this could apply to the viewfinder view as well.

So discussions that rage about whether or not DA lenses are compatible could be irrelevant. But, as I said, it depends on the way such a camera would be designed.

There are some FA lenses still available, but no doubt digital versions with new coatings and perhaps optical design tweaks could well be superior.

Photoshop can do anything we want to an image - from the very subtle and minimalistic approach to heavy manipulation.

Many thanks all for the comments.

Am I a purist? No, not really, I'm a mixture of things and I let my imagination take me wherever it wishes to go. It depends on how we feel about a subject. With these Skye images, something realistic seemed to be the way I felt about them. With other images, I might do quite a bit of messing, or something in between those two extremes.

I use Photoshop and depending on where I am and whose computer I'm using that would be CS2 or CS5. I prefer CS5, which is what I use at home. I also use Photomatix when the image looks suitable.

Could be, there are two in Rochdale and there may be two in Oldham.

Not a member, but we know Chris Widdall well, and she is an Oldham member.

www.widdall.co.uk