I wouldn't spoil your quality images with Cokin filters. Filters on digital cameras have far less purpose than they ever did on film anyway.

There are exceptions, such as IR filters, polarisers, graduated filters.

Basically you're in the wrong place for such a discussion. This is a site for Pentax Users, so the likelihood that anyone has actually made this very specific choice is slim. In addition, if they are here on this forum, as they presumably also chose the K20D, I don't see where this could really go.

ePHOTzine might be a better place for such a discussion, but even so it's a pretty specific option choice and not I would imagine one that will bring in many replies.

Smeggypants is quite right in that we don't pursue discussions of other brands on Pentax User, only because we are aimed as a resource for Pentax Users. There are similar quite specific sites for other marques, although not so lively always as here.

Well, it started off very much stronger than expected and production could not keep up, or so we heard. A little later there was a 10% discount offer. Currently I think the price has fallen slightly.

Offers tend to be made to stimulate sales for a particular puspose, maybe there are enough sales of the 645D without such a promotion?

In any event, a great choice and one which should result in some amazing images.

Certainly. On eBay you might well get a sale. I would start them off at a low price and then just wait and see. Pentax lenses do tend to sell and quite often sell well.

The lenses you are proposing to sell are actually good lenses, so as a spare or replacement could be useful.

The viewfinder image through a 67 is just magnificent though. I always wanted one, but had to settle for the 645N. It's long gone now, someone got an as-new camera when I sold it.

That's very much like a traditional Leica street photographer's camera now. It could be used in the same way, with the added bonus of auto exposure and auto focusing.

The Hanimar is a budget version of a budget lens range...the ones that were better were marked Hanimex. I should imagine quite poor on digital, but for portraits who knows, could be great.

The Helios lenses are crude but effective and might be worth trying out.

The Duo-Tamron looks interesting and might be successful on eBay.

With many thanks to Barrie (bforbes) for his groundwork in designing the rules, a new monthly competition is scheduled to start in the Gallery>Competitions section of the site. The competition is in the same area as the current weekly competition, so simply select the one you want to enter. The first one I will start to run from 1st July 2012.

The purpose of the competition is to encourage us to get out and shoot something new, so Pentax cameras only and an image shot in the month of the competition. The winner will set the next one, just as happens now with the weekly.

Judges are enouraged to select a 1st, 2nd and 3rd and optionally any commended, highly commended etc., as seen fit. Comments by the judge are also encouraged as it helps us all. Although a discussion thread may be started in the forum, please do not leave any comments in the competition section itself until the competition has been judged.

The essentials:
1. Pentax cameras only
2. Image shot in the month of the competition
3. Please leave EXIF data intact - if it's stripped out then please add it in to the description.
4. Once an image is posted, it should not be altered or changed in any way.
5. Images need to be a reasonable size to display properly, about 1000 pixels on the longest side seems to work well.

First competition will be posted up on 1st July 2012, so please watch out for it!

The difference in quality we see on the web has far more to do with the skills of the photographer, IMHO.

There is of course a limitation on this in that excellent technical quality can best be achieved with excellent kit. If we know what to do with it.

I also like the new red, very classy. Thinking about it, I like quite a few of the colours.

We choose a colour for our car, so why not a colour for our camera?