The following site offers an import duty/VAT calculator (excluding the courier's fee for charging you of course)

http://www.dutycalculator.com/

Their 'angle', so to speak, is that they offer a delivery service for items that the original retailer won't send outside the US.

Although the 60-250 is expensive, unlike some other lenses it isn't actually that out of step with the competition: doesn't Canon's 70-200 f4 L IS go for around the £900 mark? An extra £120 or so for significantly more range (10mm wider, 50mm longer) doesn't seem like that bad a deal to me - not that I'd ever be paying that sort of money for a lens of course!

The Voigtlanders did have a devoted following in K-mount, but they were very much a niche product. Plus they weren't all that cheaper than the DA Limiteds and FA50. A niche product on what is already a fairly niche lens mount equals very few sales.

The in-camera correction basically does the same as PTLens, so results should be similar.

120 degrees, according to the Other Forum's piffle 'review'

Hmm true - it seems strange that having developed an alternative to the largely-discredited SDM (whatever the real prevalence of problems, it has now I would argue acquired an "Xbox RROD" level of PR), Pentax would choose not to use it in their most expensive glass. Of course this might just be until the current SDM-equipped stocks are depleted of course!

IIRC Nikon tend to offer an 18-105 as a kit with most of their midrange consumer bodies (D90, D7000 etc.). They probably don't make many of the 18-135s anticipating relatively low demand (since they're too expensive for buyers of entrylevel bodies and don't offer sufficient performance for buyers of pro bodies).

The review section on the Other Forum called it DA-L until about a week ago.

I've noticed a few lenses dropping noticeably in price lately (the first being the DA35 Macro) - I'm now hoping it'll apply to the FA77 soon

Plus certain places (Park do it too IIRC) put the RRP as the price for preorders until they actually have stock (at which point they charge the preorderers whatever the 'real price' is)

I've always thought that if Hoya decided to sell Pentax then Kodak would be a 'dark horse' candidate, but that's just my craziness