Let's not stray too far, but the questions arise when a humble £429.00 Pentax K-r can deliver better image quality than a £5000 + camera, and this has happened on occasion.

Metal feels good, but isn't necessarily better. As those of us can tesify who have used Limited lenses, or older more traditional ones, there is a certain tactile pleasure in using well made, solid equipment.

If we had to pay for traditional manufacturing techniques, then no doubt that K-r aforementioned would cost thousands instead of hundreds. And it would be sold in hundreds as opposed to thousands.

Well one poster in a thread does! The same thread where people think Leitz might own Leica...who knows, but the level of knowledge can be a bit dire at times.

It should be OK be as the Asahi was dropped at some point.

The contacts on the ISO dial can cause intermittent connection, so if you work the dial a bit to try and clean them, that could help.

It depends what you mean by absolutely clear, so I guess the shop can look and tell you if it's OK or not.

Just a slight clarification please Judge - if you are allowing a variation of 40-60mm does this mean you are including the 40mm and 43mm lenses in the "Nifty Fifty" bracket?

The official repair house should be able to help - JP Service Solutions.

You'll find their info on the www.pentax.co.uk website.

Some do convert their DSLRs to IR, thus making them useless for normal photography. However, I suppose they use an older model that has been upgraded and is therefore available for messing about with.

OK gang, back on topic please. We're not talking here about black and white options with colour sensors, we're talking about doing away with the Bayer filter altogether so the only information being recorded is luminance at each and every pixel. If you did the same thing with a colour filter in place, then each site would have been filtered and that would need interpolating to average it out.

So, proceeding on that basis, which has nothing to do with marque, is that a viable idea?

Just to explain to those who want to jump on the bandwagon, this is not intended to open the door to discussing other marques, except insasmuch as they might impinge upon Pentax User interest.

Ken's discussion is intended to be about having black and white only sensors, not about Fuji colour cameras.