Lovely looking kit Algi, I dream of this...
Just not at the price it is...

To all who have answered so far, fascinating stuff! It just goes to show what a varied pastime/obsession. photography is, if anyone can think of any more, keep em comin!

Just watched the Vid Algi!

What bits of kit be iit a new lens/body/accessories or a trip to a particular location have significantly changed "The Game" cor you in a positive manner?

For me and to get the ball rolling it is this Tripod head, the level in the arca mount with the revolving top plate for my landscape photography is simply a revalation!

It's a Novo CBH 34 for those interested.
And the damn piccie has gone in sideways again!

£110 freepost UK only. Cost £199.99.
Light scuffing on the edges of the arca mount from normal use and just ordinary marking from usage, no drama's lovely travel pod but getting neglected because currently I have one camera and three tripods!
Seriously light and stable! I've put it up here for anyone that is interested before it goes on the auction site...
ENJOY THE SIDEWAYS IMAGES!!!
Material: carbon fibre,
Colour: carbon native
Height: 10,5 - 130cm, pack size: 30cm
Weight: 0,8kg - Max. load capacity: 6kg
5 Sections, Tube diameter 10-22mm
C-10X Head
Material: aluminium; colour: black
Height: 83 mm; diameter: 39 mm
Weight: 200 grams
Ball diameter: 29 mm

£429! Bloody hell Bill!
You can't get em secondhand for that now!
Yeah I sometimes look in on Camerapricebuster but obvoiusly not enough eh?
I wasn't using Pentax then so thats par for the course but a little galling as I try to save up six big ones!

To, Bill, I was soo close to just getting the 20-40 F2.8-4 LTD or the 16-85 F3.5-5.6 but I didn't, I'm going to pick up the 20-40 anyway down the road but as I'm a filter user the 16-50 jives well with my 12-24 and my 50-135 now has a 67-77 ring on it and a 77mm lens cap, I use it the least and I find the filter fings and the lens rings always get locked together, and you can never get em apart again straight away when you need to, so it's the path of least resistance. Had the lens out in the field for a bit yesterday and it performed pretty flawlessly but then it should as it is suposed to be brand new from Pentax/Ricoh and their latest stock but no one is telling how long they've had it of course.

I don't see me replacing a 12-24 even if they do replace it, Bill. Always did like the 12-24, wondering if the 70-300 thats supposed to be coming will be a Tamron rebadged, that'll likely be the last thing I'll add.

My March 2016, X-Pro2 has spat the dummy out now so I'm using Pentax fully again now I guess, I think it's just out of warranty (Can't remember if it was one year or two?). So I think, I'll just not bother getting it repaired, as it's not exactly a looker anymore and I doubt I could flog it. I might add another KP or the K3II replacement but not if it's £400 more than the KP...

NOT !
What a con!

I wonder if when you send em off to (Johnstones?) they come back with much more "alert" focusing ? Maybe they use components from this decade?

Interesting David, I was just reading your post and the KP was sat on the computer desk with the 16-50 attached, where it had been since last night, so I switched it on and waited for about half a minute to try the focus and BINGO! Perfect! It had not done that for all of the previous tests where I just switched the camera on and tried to focus straight away, also focusing on a near then far subject a couple of times seems to wake it up slightly quicker, as well as using the quickshift to get the focus into the right area, this lens is latest production straight from Pentax/Ricoh, if it persists I think as a Landscape shooter I'll live with it because this one is optically a keeper but if it gets any worse it'll go back!
As you say the glass in all of them is super (60-250 aside, just my personal feeling, that it's a bit Meh...)
As for dismissal of the flaws...
“Scientology always has been a game of power and control. L. Ron Hubbard was the ultimate con man, and it's hard to figure out how much of Scientology was an experiment in brainwashing and controlling people, and how much of it was truly intended to help people.”
― Jenna Miscavige Hill, Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape

I WANT TO BELIEVE...