I would try and snag an old version of Photoshop Elements from somewhere (ebay?) Yes there are free programmes, but Photoshop's the default option for most people so you'll probably find you'll easily be able to get advice if you get stuck... It will also open your RAW files, and then you can edit them and save them as jpegs.

One tip - if you are shooting RAW, set your camera's RAW format to DNG (can be opened by any RAW software) rather than PEF (Pentax's own format, which is less well supported). I think this is on tab no. 4 of the in-camera menu, 'RAW file format'.

Ha ha, on the US forum they are saying 'Why can't Pentax USA be more like Pentax UK?' based on this interview.

No there's no point removing Tav and P mode, or in-camera jpeg processing (you're not going to save any money or space by omitting these things). AF would probably have to stay too.

But yes, decripple the mount and get rid of the pop-up flash. Get the rear LCD monitor as thin as possible and/or make it detachable (mounted flat to the rear - optional wired connection for use off-camera?) so it so you can shoot without it. Look at an alternative to sensor-shift image stabilisation so that the shake-reduction assembly can be removed and the sensor assembly made as thin as possible. It's worth going all out to try and get the camera thinner without changing the registration distance, because then the camera hits the ground running with a lens line up that blasts the other CSC cameras out of the water, is fully integrated with the DSLR system without fiddly adapters, and doesn't disenfranchise current DSLR users.

If that's not possible, produce a very functional adapter with the AF motor integrated into it so that the new body doesn't need to contain a screw drive motor...

It is, frankly, an obscenely expensive lens - especially as it's APSC only. But it was beginning to haunt my dreams a bit, so when SRS reduced the price last year I bit the bullet. I enjoy using little primes, but you can't really get M lenses this wide, so I figured if I was going to splash out on one Ltd lens, it might as well be this one.

Excellent set, nice one. I particularly like the stacked chair shot, and the middle two mono shots. Of them all, the second to last shot of the brick walls/pillars is my favourite - nice piece of moody minimalism.

The second works least well for me. It's got loads going for it, but something about the crop and the jogger's position feels slightly uncomfortable.

Thanks chaps. To take these I hit exposure lock or go into M mode, and cancel the autofocus. Then pivot round on my feet, taking pictures with plenty of overlap. The last one, for example, is made up of three shots, although it's only just wider than two. I process the images in LR3 using a custom made preset based on whatever tweaks I need to make to the first image. Then I export as jepgs to a new folder, and stitch them in Microsoft ICE. Finally I open in photoshop, and crop as necessary. In the first shot I needed to patch the sky in the right hand corner, as I wanted to avoid cropping.

The DA15 doesn't create much distortion so I don't correct that at all, but I do have a preset that takes out coloured fringing which it has a negligible amount of. The Pano software does create a sort of fisheye effect when you use wider lenses - you can see it in the bowed lines in the skyline shot.

Lovely scene, great light and the fog adds another dimension. I like the light illuminating the grasses in the foreground, but wonder if there's slightly too much of it, in the left hand corner.

I am sure they are looking at what Fuji have done very carefully. Their latest cameras have raised the bar and may have prompted further development of products in the pipeline. I'm glad Ricoh have decided to wait until they have a product worth shouting about, rather than book a stand at Focus on Imaging with their current rather limited lineup.

It tells us that Pentax won't be ready to showcase their new products by then...

the bokeh is noticeably smoother than the f2.8, and I'm convinced enough by Frank's rigorous testing that the speed advantage is real. A quarter or a half a stop may not be enough to produce a faster shutter speed though, especially if your shutter speed is set to half stops.