If you look in the Index of your Operating Manual you will find Sharpness. I can't be more specific as I use the K-5 and it may or may not be exactly the same as your K-7.

The link leads to the Kiron 28mm f2, not the same lens. The f2 always had a good reputation, the f2.8 I have no idea unfortunately.

Pentax have done the CSC route in a slightly different way - offering a mirrorless camera compatible without adapters for the K lenses (K-01) and the smallest CSC in existence (Q) so time will tell where it will all lead.

Whatever has been said about choices over recent years, whether it be people mocking the name *ist or the yellow K-01, Pentax is now certainly noticed and fully back on the map.

Other marques are struggling, some because of financial scandals, some because of the after-effects of the tsunami. There is plenty of room for Pentax to grow into, steadily preferably so that the growth is sustainable.

Tricky one then. Perhaps the charger could go in your case - usually I put them inside a boot to protect them. The only think I'm not sure about is whether or not you can do that when you travel by air.

I think no, that would be pushing it. Why have a compact camera and then carry the charger? I use two batteries and rotate them. Plenty of room for a spare battery!

I'm not so sure anyone will be selling a K-5 for a song. It's almost impossible to find a second hand K20D, never mind a K-5. It seems people are keeping these splendid cameras.

If you had chosen a different week you would have been delighted by full page spreads for Pentax cameras and lenses, including the 645D.

There's not much to be gleaned by who pays for some advertising on a particular week.

EVFs are still only just acceptable. I could live with one if I had to, but I'd end up using the back screen, which is much more user friendly. So we might as well look at the K-01 for that.

SLTs give another surface to gather dust specks and get damaged and here the mirror condition will affect the picture quality. As the light level is reduced, noise will also be higher than a conventional design, all other things being equal.

There's a mass of choice, all we need to do is buy what we fancy using.

We're all getting quite blase about MP these days! Just think how we might have dreamed once about sensors that reached such giddy heights...

I sometimes wonder though if advances such as these are driven by the need to improve, the need to sell a feature or the phasing out of lower resolution sensors. Maybe a bit of all three.

Actually, you've been beaten to it!

There are dividers provided that make one half a large compartment and divide the other half into two.

I don't think there's much to lose as Amazon will let you return goods within 30 days, for any reason.