This is now sold.

P.M. sent.

Not sure I'm doing the right thing but I need some new toys and sadly this lovely camera is under utilised. So rather than have it gather dust in a cupboard I have decided to give it the chance of a new home.
It is in very good condition cosmetically as can be seen in the photos,and was serviced by Harrow Technical probably a little over two years ago. It comes with the 35-70 lens shown. I'm looking for £200 including RMSD.
I thought it was more likely to find a good home here than on Ebay so I'm offering it here first.
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Just to throw a spanner in the works, how about the DA 15 ltd. It will give you something you don't already have.

The DA 55-300 would be an excellent choice as a second lens. It is by far the best of the budget zooms in that range. I have taken some macro like photos of butterflies at the 300mm end from about 2m away, and it obviously will cover things much farther away.
As for landscapes he kit lens is a very respectable performer when stopped down to around f8 so I wouldn't rush out to buy anything else until you establish what focal length you find yourself using most. The DA35 is indeed an excellent lens but you already have that focal length covered so I wouldn't rush into that yet. Besides you can buy three or four M series manual focus primes off ebay for around the same money if you want to experiment. A 28 35 and 50 would be a good selection to start with. I can also recommend the sigma 24mm superwide II in either manual or autofocus versions, however those these are quite a bit harder to come by.
But for a second lens the 55-300 sounds like it would fit your current needs best.

Well some liked the brassing effect in the old days but many others hated that their lovely sexy black finish that they paid extra for, was ruined!
I'm rather disappointed they wasted the MX name on a compact with a tiny sensor and no viewfinder option. Not the digital MX I was hoping for. Plus the usual silly Pentax launch price puts it in direct competition with the superb Sony RX100. Not a good place to be.

I have the Samsung versions of the 12-24 and 100 Macro.
Each for £200.
Stupidly , I didn't buy the Samsung badged FA35mm f2 when I had the chance.
And I just didn't have the cash for the recent Amazon DA300 offer

At the SRS open day the nice man from Pentax said they are NOT the same optics. The body is the same but Pentax have installed their own optics. .....Whatever that means
Whether that means they have changed the design or just replaced some elements I don't know so hopefully they have improved this already well regarded lens.
He did say the price was a problem....... and they would be feeding that back to Japan. They might get away with a slight premium but almost doubling the price was a non starter for almost everyone.

Hi Bob, it's quite easy really but can seem a little daunting first time round.
Go to the Gallery tab on the top menu and when you hold your mouse on the Gallery button, three options come up in a pull down menu. Select Upload Photo if you just want it to appear in your personal gallery under your user name, or select Main Gallery if you want it to appear in the main gallery as well.
This will bring you to another page. Just work your way down the page in steps. The first thing you need to do is select the photo you want to upload. Click the chose photo box and this will come up with a window to allow you to navigate to wherever you saved your photo on your PC. Select the picture and hit the "open" button at the bottom of the window.
This will take you back to the Upload Photo page but now the name of your picture should show up next to the Choose Photo box.
Then go to the next step and give it a title and a brief description or anything else you want to say about it in the boxes provided. Then choose what category you want it to show up in if someone does a search for a particular type of picture. If you can't decide just select General.
Tick the other boxes as appropriate. Then at the bottom of the page click upload photo and you're done. It may take a few minutes before the picture appears. I may be wrong but i think if it's your first picture posting it may need to be "blessed" by a moderator to make sure someone isn't pulling a fast one. So that may delay things further, but that's all there is to it.
You can only upload one photo per day unless you are a paid up member, in which case you can fill your boots.

ETA typical. Gwyn steamed in there while I was typing the War and Peace version with two fingers.......

Had one more or less constantly on my ME Super. Lovely lens. Why are you even asking at £7.99?