Good point re male and female. I hadn't thought of that.

An advantage for the female is that she won't sweat as I described - merely glow a little

That's how we used to do it in my press photography days when covering riots. 28mm lens set to f8 and focus distance set to just over 2 metres. Bright line Leitz finder fitted over the rewind lever on the Nikon F Then just wade in.

No focussing beats AF for speed by a wide margin!

I use a Lowepro back pack and very good it is, especially if the gear is heavy.

The only problem I find is getting a soaking wet back from sweat when walking or cycling far.

When walking you can carry it by the handle for a bit while your back dries off but it's best to be careful about putting it on the back rack of a bicycle for the same purpose. The road vibration can quickly loosen the tiny screws that hold the equipment together - especially vulnerable are the lens bayonet mounts.

This is simply incorrect. Cedric must have been looking at the wrong camera. It is as John and Simon say.

This extract from the GX20 EXIF might be of interest:

PentaxVersion : 4.1.2.0
PentaxModelID : Samsung GX20

It would seem that Pentax themselves regard the GXs as a Pentax.

In the not so great days of the British car industry, this was known as badge engineering.

I've put my Ohnar 300mm lens on eBay this evening in case anyone is interested.

Also the 50-200mm Schneider kit zoom.

Here's a pic from the 300.

Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! It was a joke.....
I tried to put it in joke tags but the forum won't let you use faux tags.
I can't imagine feeling persecuted because of the brand of camera I use so I assumed the conspiracy theorists were joking too.
Sorry again, no more light heartedness here.

There's another way of looking at this. Maybe BJP and PP have the biased reviewers and the others are objective?

Having recently been shown half a dozen pix of 'the petrol station where we filled up our bikes' in a slide show of holiday pictures, if I have to sit through that plus 'and here's exactly where we were when we took this one' I shall top myself.

I'd say it's nature's way of telling you you are too lazy and too rich.

Often people make the assumption that because a lens is expensive will be better or because it is a prime lens it will better.
Truth is, it may or may not be. If you read the tests on Pentax primes, sometimes they are good, sometimes they are not.
In practical, rather than testing, use, you wouldn't expect to see much difference. A computer screen is inherently low resolution and since most people don't make large prints, they won't look much different either.
If you photograph a flat surface with the lenses wide open and view the extreme corners at 100% any differences will show up.
It's entertaining to do but tells you little about a lens in day to day use.
If you can't see any difference, just use whichever lens you prefer the feel of - a perfect situation to be in, really.