When using a camera, one of the most important things to me is how it fits in with everything else in terms of operation, storage, access, etc. Workflow might sum it up.

With the Q I've been trying to find the right case - it's compact, but not quite a compact, so to make it pocketable it needs the right sort of non-bulky protection.

I have found one very promising case - the Pentax Large Neoprene Case for Q. It just fits the camera plus standard zoom nicely, gives a bit of padded protection against knocks, but still slips into a jacket pocket. There is also a Small Neoprene Case and I presume that will fit camera and standard lens. Both are available from Amazon at around £15 - £17.50.

I also have on the way a two piece leather ERC from China, so we'll see how that does the job sometime soon.

Off topic posts removed - we don't get involved in religion or politics.

In general, it's best not to link to eBay auctions, it upsets the bargian hunters as the competition for an item increases and the price goes up!

Nobody seems to have grumbled this time, so maybe the price puts this out of the bargain department....

There are plenty of cheap 400mm and 500mm lenses about, often T mount. T mount is just a simple system to mount lenses on any camera.

500mm lenses come in standard long focus (not necessarily telephoto, hence their length) and mirror types and prices under £100 will be the norm.

I have used mirror lenses on DSLRs but forund even the tamron to be a bit soft and with a tendency to over-expose. This needed quite a bit of exposure compensation.

We're straying from the point a bit, but there are plenty of Pentax rectlinear lenses. There always have been.

As the manufacturers recommend minimum speeds for hand holding based on focal length x 1.5 I would do the sdame for entering focal length for the SR system. See how it works?

It's the way it's going though. Probably it means that a wider aperture and/or closer focusing lens can be made than would otherwise be technically possible.

I would turn the feature off if I wanted barrel distortion at the edge of a wide angle shot. Or use the fisheye lens!

I'll pop some of them in the Gallery now.

Fair comment. It's true to say that anyone using Photoshop from P6 onwards would find the basic priciples are still the same in CS5.

No doubt the same is true of Elements.

Not sure, I have made the album "public" but maybe you have to join Facebook?