It's an enlarging lens from a reputable manufacturer of its day. Enlarging lenses work well on bellows because they are computed for close work and have a very flat field. However, there are better enlarging lenses, such as the later Rokkor or EL-Nikkor.

It's 10% on accessories. Lenses are not usually considered as accessories.

Accessories are lens caps, chargers, leads, lens hoods, etc., all the paraphenalia that goes with the cameras and lenses.

The place on the sensor where the eye is recorded has shifted from the centre though, making a slightly longer light path. Some say it's significant, but I'm not sure, as I said.

They are saying that if you use the centre point only and then move the camera, say, downwards to recompose, the distance from the point the eye registers on the sensor to has changed, slightly altering the focus point.

I'm not totally convinced that at normal distances and apertures this makes very much difference. At macro distances and very wide apertures it may well do.

Thanks, that's interesting. I don't disagree with you, but then again my glasses are "designer" frames and they are certainly functional. The Newson pouch may be a designer pouch, but there's no doubt it will work as a camera pouch.

So I can't agree so far as the pouch being non-functional.

I suspect we are in new territory here. The only thing that detracts from a leather camera pouch is perhaps the price?

So how would you define "designer" Horst?

Picking up that point, I wouldn't use flash. No point at the distances involved and annoying for the others in the audience anyway. Available light and the appropriate ISO will sort it out for you.

Designer cameras have been around for many years. Gold and even platinum Rolleiflexes, gold Pentax Spotmatics and LXs, Leica special editions, I even had a Helmut Newton Rolleiflex 2,8GX at one time. There was the 180mm Olympic Sonnar as far back as 1938 I think.

These are either for collectors or for special use, such as looking impressive at society weddings.

Designer cases at $300 will no doubt sell to those who have money to burn and want something very exclusive to prove it. It's a market, I don't knock it in any way.

You have all the information I've seen. Hopefully the officials won't be over-officious with photographers and some lessons will have been learned from all the clashes with security guards in general.

Page 84 of the K-5 manual explains what is saved and how. Basically, if you have shot JPEG only, when you play back the image immediately after shooting you can press the AE-L button and the RAW data will then also be saved. It's still in the buffer memory at that point.

When in playback there is also a symbol appearing on the screen that shows this as well as a reminder it can be done if desired.

As far as I recall, this has been true of all Pentax DSLRs.