Yes, buy the 55-300mm.

The moral is buy one with a body, not as a separate item, if you possibly can. This has always been the case - bundled packages are less expensive.

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It's a similar thing to thinking Made in Germany is better than Made in Singapore on a classic Rollei compact, the assumption is that standards in Germany were higher than in Singapore.

Likewise, Japan has the reputation rather than Vietnam. However, whether there is any truth in this or any evidence of it is something else. For all we know the Vietnam factories (I think Pentax has two) may have much higher standards and the people stricter attitudes to quality than the Japanese. Just as much as the way many perceive it the other way round.

My own perception is that lenses made in Japan or Vietnam seem equally well made and all deliver equally good results. The only factor might be relative rarity of one or the other from a collecting point of view. I use them though, I don't collect them.

The skills needed to correct converging verticals in Photoshop are extremely simple and would not take much learning. Given that we probably already have Photoshop then learning to use it for this purpose would be far, far less expensive an option than buying a tilt-shift lens that would be there at a very high price.

The digital age just has different techniques to tackle various photographic needs.

Well in the end I shot my new picture, but felt a little uncomfortable with it, so I decided to do something else instead. Sometimes these things don't quite work out as intended.

It's a more difficult subject that we might at first think.

It's the same thing. The only question is whether or not the coating is the same but it looks the same when the lenses are viewed together.

Items on eBay, and indeed in our own Classified Ads section, seem to go in phases and fashions. At one point it was the 100mm macro lens, then the 50mm f1.4, then the 35mm f2.4, and a variety of other relatively rare lenses such as the 18-250mm.

Then it all dies as the market becomes saturated and it moves on....very difficult to predict and very unfortunate if you actually need an item and it's the wrong time to buy.

You'd have to ask Chris at SRS, but we can't assume either that any purchasers were members of this forum. There's just no information at this point.

I think they've only just become available in relatively small quantities.