Emailed em this morning and got this reply:

Thank you for your enquiry.



Sigma Japan have not yet announced whether they will be producing the USB docking station for Pentax as of yet unfortunately.



Should they make such announcement we shall update our website accordingly.



Kind regards

Newbie hat on!
Snappy which shot was taken with which lens?

Seriously love that first Macro!

Basically it's as good as it can be for the job it was designed to do John!
Doesn't however stop it being compared to things designed with a different aspect of photography in mind though, the Lens that is sharp everywhere from wide open to fully stopped down and right thru it's zoom range, as we all know does not exist.
I love the term "Portrait Lens" which basically means good Bokeh and rubbish edges wide open, like my 16-50, it's soft wide open at the edges pretty much on all focal lengths but stopped down to Landscape apertures it's great, and so does double duty here for me. I'm being sweepingly general I know but perhaps if manufacturers were more honest about what a lens is for, it would stop the confusion but that would cost them sales in certain areas and so would never happen.

Kind of with you here Aliengrove, it doesn't appeal to me either but then all in ones never do despite my total hatred of changing lenses outdoors!
It does however appeal to the masses who want something with better range better focusing and generally better construction than a kit lens...
Each "Better" bit costs but nowhere near the level of the final price of course
As John says it has a contrasty look to it which maens it looks sharp, can't agree on detail though but then I'm a bit anal when it comes to that! Basically, it's one of those items that Pentax and now Ricoh imaging (imagine change!) know they will sell in good numbers and they can talk up all of the positive attributes, justiyfying the price. In turn this allows them to give away kit lenses to sell more bodies, which in my opinion are not much worse when it comes to image quality in reality. All that said I don't feel that the lens is any worse than the several wide ranging "kit" lenses I've had for Nikons in the past, in fact it's a lot better built and focuses a good deal quicker...

Some people are masochists Algi and actually like that sort of thing, perhaps people like you and me should send our lenses to them for adjustment?

Love that last bit, Lets all have a good moan! After me:
Nobody loves us, everybody hates us, wer'e going to the bottom of the garden to eat worms...

Again here's hoping! If Ricoh raise the profile and the numbers sold, then there will be no problem I guess? It's all about numbers, now it could just be Ricoh Imaging (imagine change) U.S.A. Thats the problem here, the original post
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/52147707
Shows the mail that was sent to Sigma U.S.A. and the response which seems pretty unequivocal really, they've done this before with Lenses like the 120-300 F2.8 and allegedly now the 8-16 (Read it somewhere) has been discontinued in Pentax mount over there, it could all just be conjecture on their part but the reply from Sigma on the USB dock seeems clear enough...

Roman wall, on the Sunday, lakes the rest, three days in a row the camera never came out of the bag, I'm lucky as it's on my doorstep, so it's easy to go back!
First three on the wall, second three are Ullswater and the last five are Langdale...
Langdale and Ullswater days were the only two where the sun showed it's face.

C'mon, no one?

Good advice!
I knackered a C@$N*N 50D updating on about two thirds battery once!
My own fault though...

Big businesses with small gonads, won't take a risk unless they'll sell at least a million of them in the first fortnight