Good to see the K1 out in its natural (low-light) habitat ! ..... I like in particular Willows, Helter Skelter and the Christmas Market.

Yes, pre-focussing is a technique associated with manual focus mode usually.

Of course, if you used Back Button Focus for the pre-focussing, then did not press that again, it would stay fixed, so that is the way to use it in conjunction with autofocus. Of course the shutter button has to be set to not focus, or you have the problem Peter referred to.

I can't remember whether setting up BBF is a two step process, (ie the back button and shutter button are controlled independently), or if it's a one step process (where one button cuts out the other). Probably on our latest models there's a range of choices .....

I think you need to make a report.

Seb asks a good question about whether the hotshoe and PC port can be used together on our modern DSLRs .... Has anyone tried using a flash on the hotshoe and something from the PC port simultaneously?

It's a bit of a throwback to earlier times Seb, but I believe it still has it's uses.

As I understand it (haven't used one myself, and it predates the Pentax DSLRs by many many years) it provides a basic flash trigger signal, only up to the max sync speed. No TTL data, so only for triggering flashes with their own locally set manual power. A radio trigger could take the signal if it had the required input and then do it's thing ......

I am sure that there will be more experienced flash users here who have used it in practice and can correct anything I have got wrong.

Well we know now that it was worth keeping the camera, and not just for rainy days. I know the 150-450 has a reputation as a beast, but it's clearly paired up beautifully with the K1 when in the right hands!

I've been on that bizarre contraption along the pier at Hyth , and your image is really evocative of the barren and spacious industrial environment there.

If you could, I'd suggest toning down the saturation on the background behind the Emu, as it pulls on the eye .... Something like the soft green bit in behind the dog would be perfect I think....

When you can quite easily crank up the ISO a stop, when light is low and you need extra steadiness, with very little IQ price to pay, it's hard to justify on the "light gathering" grounds.

And in terms of depth of field effects, there is surely an extremely limited range of real life circumstances where the difference between 1.4 and 1.2 would make .....well, any difference.

Bjolester makes some strong user informed points about the special characteristics which are hard to discount if they would enhance your particular style.

An extraordinary item that looks in great nick. I'm no long wildlife shooter, but with ISO performance such as we now have available, both on FF and APS-C, who really needs F4 or F2.8 telephotos anymore ...?

Good luck with your sale!

A Classic Pentax digital original, released well before my transition from film, so no experience of it myself. But it's a model that keeps coming back into all sorts of discussions about digital imaging, sensor technology and image quality, and there's an obvious respect and affection from Pentax users historically. Yours looks in beautiful condition, I wish you success with the sale!

I don't even need to know anything about the lens in question, considering what you already have the only logical response is.....No, you don't need it!

This assumes of course that logical thinking has any value at all in this matter. ......