Good set! There's no one shot that stands out as a masterpiece, although I really like no. 20 (although that white thing on the left border is distracting).

The PP style is bold and typically Smeggy. Some of the girls have taken on the skin tone of particularly open-pored Jaffa oranges. Perhaps that's the look they were going for though LOL! Deary me, those girls.... I feel like I might have contacted chlamydia just from looking at the pictures of some of them

Is that really the look that straight men are into? :LOL:

That old lady at the end was Macca?

The ceremony totally blew my expectations out of the water. The cauldron by Thomas Heatherwick was stunning.

They couldn't call it 'continuous' if it was limited though.

The one use I have seen is the 1.6FPS continuous lo mode used for timelapse photography. So perhaps you were right when you suggested it's 'only good for photographing the grass grow'!

I've not answered the poll because I don't regularly use these modes. But I would have thought it obvious that going from continuous lo 3FPS to continuous lo 1.6FPS is a step backwards. I doubt Pentax would have reduced the speed just for the hell of it, so assume it's a limitation of the imaging pipeline?

I think IR's preview was mentioned, but as you say, it was a long time ago. The standard test shot sequence is done on the Sigma 70mm (presumably this helps with comparing to other brands).

The K5 basically offers what my K7 offers, but with the better Sony sensor. The K30 seems to offer 90% of what the K5 offers, but adds some extras like better CDAF, enhancements to the AF system, notably for me, focus peaking, which I really look forward to trying. (The review didn't mention focus peaking, except for listing it in the pros and cons at the end. I was considering a K-01 for that feature, now I can get it in my DSLR when I upgrade, which is pretty cool).

I think he's hinting that (unless you urgently need a camera) it might be better to wait and see whether the new 'flagship' would be worth stretching to, which will probably be announced at Photokina (not far off now)...

That comment would result in 100 pages of FF speculation on the US forum....

I'll send you my disk if you're desperate. Would appreciate it back though (I don't use it but would like to keep in case I sell my camera).

Great to see some himbos alongside the bimbos. Tacky approach to marketing though.

But about the BBC article, it strikes me that most forumites would agree Pentax don't have a serious mirrorless competitor. Given the bile heaped on the K01 and Q.