On that basis we should all stop taking photographs and go back to capturing scenes using oil paint. Besides, I doubt your paper map can automatically geotag 1,000 photos without you having to do anything

The 18-135 isn't well-regarded in image quality terms (one review site actually sent their copy back to Pentax for repair, only to be told it was working as intended.

'Costumer services'?

One thing to be borne in mind about Rockwell is that he has a deliberately over-critical writing style. He does however seem to have a grudging respect for Pentax as a historic brand (he described K-mount as 'too tough to die' a couple of years ago).

I don't shoot Pentax much these days, but in my interwebs voyages I noticed that Photozone (for reasons I can't quite fathom) suddenly decided to review the D-FA 50 Macro.

http://www.photozone.de/pentax/906-pentax50f28macro?start=1

I'm lucky enough to own one of these (have done for years), and always thought it was the sharpest lens I own. I now have mathematical, chart-based proof that it's not all in my head! When the shooting situation is right for it (bearing in mind the f2.8 maximum aperture) the bokeh is also the most beautiful I've seen. I'm actually semi-seriously considering buying the Pentax FF just to use this lens on it* - especially as I'm likely to be moving to somewhere a bit more photogenic in a year or so.

* Though of course it and the DFA 100 would need a wide-angle FF friend to keep them company. LBA has no limits!

The original article says 'redesigned lens and better focusing'. Maybe that just means a manual focus ring (rather than the button + dial of the current GR) perhaps with focus peaking? Thanks for this anyway jules - though I love my m4/3 kit, I'm seriously considering a GR to give me something pocketable for commuting (being a prime person the Panasonic LX100 doesn't excite me much).

Well worth waiting a couple of weeks since I'll then have the option of either buying the replacement GR or possibly getting the current one for less (though it's already much lower than its release price).

Thankfully at least three of my existing AF lenses (the two DFA Macros and DA70 Limited) already work with FF. Though if I was getting back into DSLRs I'd probably go with the K3 rather than an FF at this stage.

Isn't there supposed to be a new APS-C ultrawide on the roadmap though, as well as the wide FF lens (the latter presumably something like the Canon 16-35mm f4)?

That's not necessarily all that unreasonable though if we're talking a true 'flagship APS-C' above the current K3 in spec terms. Canon charge more (£400 more in fact, at current prices) for their 7D Mark II APS-C than for their own 6D FF.

Well they could have quick-shift focus like the DA Limiteds, and the improved digital coatings will help with the purple fringing that the FA77 in particular is prone to.