What's wrong with using a normal microfibre cloth? I don't use snake oil on my lenses ;p

Pm sent re 30mm.

I wonder what is motivating him to do this? It's almost like some form of OCD or something! Harmless enough though.

They are very nice. The 'bokeh' is really good.

Rather like no.2 with the hands stretching into the light.

It looks like a hand-tinted engraving, Simon.

Why would you even hesitate for a microsecond? Lucky duck

Sounds like you had a good sample of the kit lens Ken. I found my 16-45mm so much better than my kit lens. The chromatic aberration was superficial and easy to sort out in post. The blurry abberations the kit lens creates near the borders of shots at 18mm is harder to combat!

It could be that my kit lens is particularly bad, but it's better than the previous one I sent back to Clifton Cameras, and my previous 18-55mm mk II was very soft at one side. I think that 'good samples' of the kit lens are probably unrepresentative of most experiences of it, certainly mine.

I have a Tamron 17-50mm now which is much better across the board. It's faster, so more versatile too. I've kept the 18-55mm as despite being less than brilliant, it's usable and the WR will come in handy... one day!

There's a gap in the market for a smaller, lighter 35mm DSLR, and a need to 'complete' the Pentax system with a 35mm body to encourage new people to Pentax, and help reduce the 'emigration' to Canikon of a fairly significant number of users.

The fact that you don't fancy one doesn't mean it's not an important product for Pentax to consider introducing if they're serious about staying in the DSLR (rather than mirrorless) game long term. I think with Ricoh at the helm it's virtually inevitable. Yes it will take investment, and careful market positioning, but look what they did with the 645D.

With the benefit of hinsight, the Pentax system should probably have been designed as APSC mirrorless with a new line of lenses and a K adapter, FF DSLR with complete compatibility with FA/DFA lenses and 645D medium fomat. APSC is a kludge-format for DSLRs IMO... it works well enough but it's not taking full advantage of what that sort of camera body could offer.

I would forgo SR for a bigger sensor to be honest. But I ask myself, if they can produce a camera like the k5 which is so much smaller than say the D7000, which does not have SR, why couldn't they make a FF camera which is only slightly larger.