That road map is 18 months old now Stefan (March 2009), and the 'super telephoto' has been on it for at least 3 years.

I'm curious John. As TT said "if money was no object", why have you not included any of Pentax's premium * zooms in your collection?

So is yours a black version?

Mine were silver, I've had three at various times, with no problems.

The K10D and FA 80-320mm do work together, I've had that combination in the past with no problems.

Try wiping the camera and lens contacts with one or two drops of WD40 on a piece of kitchen roll, then wipe it off with a dry piece. The contacts are spring loaded, are any of them stuck in?

Make sure that the lens is actually locking in place on the camera.

1: SMCP-FA 100mm 1:2.8 or the newer D-FA and WR models which are quite a bit lighter. A Sigma 180mm 1:3.5 DG EX is also a good choice but quite heavy.

2: K20D or K7, DA 12-24mm 1:4, DA* 16-50mm 1:2.8, DA* 50-135mm 1:2.8 or DA* 60-250mm 1:4, D-FA WR 100mm 1:2.8 Macro

Start saving

Check you have the latest firmware loaded by holding down the menu key when turning it on.

Firmware version 1.31 is available from here.

Update:-

Another male kitten turned up whom we have called Dice, because he's white with black spots. He'll be neutered at the appropriate age and we'll adopt him as a house cat. We believe he was dumped on our estate. He needed vet treatment from day one, and was found in a neighbours garden, starving hungry and dehydrated.

Of the female feral cats, we had Maybeline spayed some time ago and she's fully recovered now. All her fur has grown back too.

She had 3 kittens before her op, now all about 6 months old. Jaffa Cake, Cherry Pie, and Chocolate (my wife named them). Jaffa was spayed early this week and is on the mend. The remaining two will be trapped and spayed next week.

We finally caught the second adult queen (Esmeralda) today after 3 months of trying and had her spayed. She's a bit wobbly but she managed to toddle off up the road tonight to rest in an empty/unfinished house where we believe she may be nursing kittens. She had them around 3-4 weeks ago and we continued with the spaying based on the vet's advice that the kittens would be OK without mum for up to 24 hours. That is if she still has them. She's not a very good mother and the only kitten of hers to have survived from several litters in the 2.5 years we've known her is Pepe, our house cat, who was one of the two that we found in our swimming pool at a few weeks old.

The real shock came when I collected her tonight. The vet had put her to sleep and made the incision in her side to remove her ovaries, only to find that she was already pregnant again. That incision then had to be closed, and another made in her belly. Even the vet was surprised that a nursing mother was pregnant again. Tart (the cat, not the vet).

Did you know - If one pair of cats produce two female kittens who in turn produce two female kittens at a rate of two litters per year. After 6 years, with no fatalaties along the way, you end up with over 354000 cats. If each produced 3 female kittens, the result is about 1.25 million cats.

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Does that constitute hi-jacking?

So which make/model did you actually buy?

You want one really. Did I mention it's a tad more powerful than the AF400T? There was also a battery pack made for it to facilitate faster recycling.

Just picture one sitting on top of your Hot Shoe Grip . . . .