Hmm going with the E mount would certainly open up a huge lens market for Pentax, while getting over the initial lack of native Pentax lenses. But whatever they do, it has to have excellent compatibility with existing K mount lenses, so a fully functioning adapter is a must.

I bought the SMC K135 2.5 recently. I bought it for the very usable wide open aperture, which of course allows Av mode. I'm happy using stop down metering if I close the aperture down a bit but since I bought it for low light and shallow dof stuff, I doubt I'll need to very often. And the bright aperture does help with focusing.

When I was in Birmingham the other week I was accosted several times by 'chuggers' who were out in force trying to get people to sign up for direct debits for Guide Dog training for the blind.

The first chap tried to get my interest by saying 'hey nice camera, I've got a Nikon... which unsurprisingly didn't work.

The fourth person who approached me ended up getting a lecture in terms of the relative worthiness of the Guide Dogs charity - I would give charities like Oxfam or The Red Cross (which I already have direct debits set up for) a 10/10 for urgency whereas - while important in their own way - Guide Dogs would only get at best a 2/10. She readily agreed.

Phew, thank goodness you're here to help calm tensions, G!

Tim had the thread deleted before he was (apparently rather dismissively) told to go and post in the 'Another Pointless Thread'. Which this one is now beginning to rival in its pointlessness

Fascinating, and beautifully captured.

I am thinking of installing Ubuntu as a second OS on my PC. I did just that for a while, but needed to use lightroom - but that was before I heard of Darktable.

Sadly I still need to retain Windows for running Autocad and Photoshop/Indesign for work reasons.

No need to be modest nipper. Your pictures have been great, right off the bat.

Got this from the other forum courtesy of Riorico. Basically this confirms the second line of mirrorless bodies to go alongside the Q... But with a larger sensor of course. The source is from Ricoh, and there are interesting thoughts about the direction they plan to take Pentax in.

http://www.tmcnet.com/viewette.aspx?u=http%3a%2f%2fwww.tmcnet.com%2fusubmit%2f20...

I managed to track down the band in the last few pics, and offered them the free use of the shots so long as they credit me. Very pleased to say they really liked the shots, and have said they will contact me for a paid shoot next time they're performing in town.