If you're after one of these SRS have them at £350 and there's a £25-off deal on as well.

Anything which can be unclipped more easily is IMHO more likely to unclip itself. Of course we're Pentaxians so if our cameras fall they'll make divots in whatever they fall on rather than themselves

Being a film user is the definition of high photographic knowledge, HDR and tripods are worthless. Does this graph originate from Ken Rockwell by any chance?

I have the same attitude - but to books. For me, every inch of shelfspace taken up by instruction manuals is space that I can't use for real books. Plus instruction manuals are for wusses - learn by pressing buttons and seeing what happens

Worked it out: 0.12x is the magnification ratio (Photozone tells me that the max magnification on the DA70 is 1:8.3, which when calculated works out to 0.12). Of course that has something between 'sod' and 'all' to do with optical zoom but at least it is a number which has something to do with the lens.

True, but it achieves the OP's objective

In case anyone is procrastinating over a lens purchase, remember that SRS have an 'instant cashback' (otherwise known as discount ) offer which lasts until the end of the month: £25 off a £250+ lens or £50 off a £500+ lens (voucher codes pentaxlens25 and pentaxlens50 respectively).

[EDIT: The offer only applies to Pentax lenses, as the codes may imply]

They also have the two Pentax 50s at reduced prices: the FA 50 1.4 for £299 (£274 after code) and the DFA 50 2.8 macro for £349 (£324 after code).

Riddle of the day! Guess what on earth they mean by 'optical zoom' on a prime

Erm... use any application on the iPhone which hasn't been pre-approved by Apple?

Apple don't seem to have noticed that tablets are a dead end. They are too large to be trivially portable (because of the screen size they're more difficult even than a netbook) and too weak to replace a laptop.

The difference to the iPhone is that the iPhone took a device which people clearly wanted (an internet connected smartphone, since they'd been buying them from HTC, Blackberry etc. for a couple of years) and made it much better. The iPad, on the other hand, takes a device that people have long since decided they don't want, makes it worse (through inability to multitask and to run software of the user's choice) and tells them they want it simply because it has an Apple logo.

Sure, the Mobs acolytes will buy them, but I'd be very surprised if the teams responsible for the Dell Mini or Amazon Kindle are quaking in their boots.