Thats exactly what I meant Bill!

I'm looking at K-S2 now with renewed interest also maybe one of those Graphite Limited Edition K3's but I've still a couple more lenses to pick up before that can happen...

Where I shoot is 35 miles across and I know it well, I do not need a GPS to tell me where I was stood and which way I had the Camera pointed but I can imagine in some parts of the world, scottish highlands or in America etc, that the GPS would indeed be very useful just not for me...

Had a play with a MkII today, nice but I already have the "classic", Rep told me that the original is staying in the range too to give people the option of flash or Gps, well we'll see...

I kind of agree with you Richard but then we are not the norm, most buy the kit one other lens or the two lens kit and happily shoot Jpeg for ever! Me like you shoot RAW and want to squeeze every bit of goodness out of that sensor that it's possible to get, for people like that the Jpeg quality is irrelevant but we are not the majority.
One of the major problems with modern lens design is the abbberation and distortion, as the percieved need for ever more wide ranging standard or compacted lenses progresses. I noticed it most strongly in my Nikon kit, almost every consumer/pro-sumer grade lens made by them in recent years has had two main characteristics, very sharp at the cost of extreme bendyness or abberation (Is bendtness a proper word?) As you point out removeing fringing etc, is not always as simple as ticking the boxes for correction and colour fringing in lightroom, with some lenses it is a compromise at best but overall from my personal stand point I want the sharpness because without it I don't have a picture.

I think overall the K-S2 is the more interesting of this years offerings (So far), the kit lens being a little dissappointing but then they are kind of giving them away. They have with the K-S1/K-S2, tried to mimic the the small size characteristics of Mirrorless while still retaining the mirror, a hard ask to be honest, with the K-S1 they almost succeded but at the cost of handling, despite it handling better than almost every CsC I've ever picked up except the "Pro" models. Pentaxians when they see a DSLR they want a DSLR and thats what the K-S2 is, new starters probably don't think they want the mirror and OVF, a brilliant victory for marketing over logic...

http://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/english/support/download/app/pentax-story/index.h...

Not sure if i'm nerdy enough, oh but wait yes I am!

Now on Tech Radar 4.5 stars...
Only a couple of gripes...

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/cameras-and-camcorders/cameras/digital-slrs-hyb...

A canon and a Pentax at the same show in a face off, 250-600 on the Pentax would win the penis envy race!
P.S. PM me...

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/55786983

Shows the beast at work, good on ya Barry Pearson...

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Funny Mark I had the 77 but just preffered the 70 for some reason, probably because I'm not a people shooter, well I'd like to be but S.O.19 would have something to say on that subject no doubt
I just liked the across the frame sharpness of the 70, very predictable, I've never had the DFA macro and I'm not sure if it wouldn't be wasted on me.
Think it's going to be a 70 for me then..

Thanks Brian, I didn't know you had left the fold, still using for film then I take it?
Addendum: Oh I see, you went X-T1, had one of them too!
I've been too-ing and fro-ing for a long time, I'm now wanting to do everything with my K3, which means a few changes and some designs on bigger and longer (Heavier) weaponary have had to be shoved to the side a bit, Had nine (Count em!) FF bodies and I've forgotten how many APSC but I keep coming back to Pentax, since I just like em, they make me happy when I'm out shooting and get me howls of derision from the masses stood at places like Ashness Bridge but I just don't care
My gut has been telling me all the long to get a 70, I'm slowly being pushed back over the precipice of "Limited" Damnation