Wireless communication with Android and Apple tablets / phones for liveview, video and controls would be great, but not sure about a modular system.

But yes, I agree with Chris - the first priority is an uplift of the current lens line up... e.g. revising the DA*16-50, perhaps improving the kit lens that the K5 etc ship with (how about a WR 16-45mm?)

If the image doesn't appear in the gallery, how are people ever going to find it? If someone has bookmarked the direct url, well, they've seen it already, and probably have a copy on their own computer in the temporary internet files, or for all you know have saved it. Can't think of any circumstance that this would cause a problem if you accept that uploading images puts them in the public domain.

Being the weakest link in the DA* line up just means it isn't quite as excellent as the others, but clearly it's still far from awful

Hey Geo, don't get too dramatic there! It's just a weak lens in the line up. People can do their research and choose whether to buy it or not. Pentax probably ought to have another look at it and try and come up with something more competitive with the third party lenses though.

Superb use of DOF, wonderful colours. I wish all macros were this creative.

Slightly disappointed as I thought this was a Mac-bashing thread

Safari is great when it can actually open the website you want to use. Luckily I also have FF on my Mac

Internet explorer is hideous but at least it tends to be trouble free!

I picked one of these up quite cheaply, just to see what it could do. The reason it's on my radar is that it's relatively fast at f4, and is said to be sharp wide open.

So it would be possible to use this for concerts (low light) and portrait photogaphy (subject isolation). As shooting wide open at is appropriate for these sorts of photography, the lens can be used in Av mode wide open, avoiding the need to remember to press that green button for stop down metering.

Anyway here are my test shots. It is definitely sharp enough wide open. There is much less coloured bokeh fringing and CA than my 135mm f2.5. All these shots are at f4 in Av mode.













100% crop, no sharpening.




WHAT A BARGAIN!!!

Although the noise performance is pretty much eclipsed by the newer models, the K7 is an absolute bargain second hand. The small size of an entry level model, the advanced control of a 'pro' body, and (almost) the handsome proportions and metal build of a classic film SLR.

Just how dirty are people's lenses? Microfibre cloths will certainly lift and trap fluff and dust, and remove finger prints very effectively, without the anxiety of using chemicals that might affect lens coatings or leave a residue.

Youch! Not a surprise though, when I read posts like this so often