Do actually like this one. http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/9749/128733247.1be/0_14c9df_d7bc1155_orig.jpg

That was VERY funny, thanks for sharing! (What is it with all the 'tiny brides'?)

Which is why you should never unfurl your Miggo in public, John.

Poor straggly old thing. Like the DOF esp. in the first one.

Now, when are these K60/KL product images going to be leaked:

I think Sony have done really well with cameras like RX100, RX1 and A7r but out there in 'consumerland' it's the cheapo compacts that have traditionally made up the bulk of sales... and these are still Sony's (imaging products) bread and butter.

Pentax/Ricoh inhabit a more specialised niche that hopefully is more resilient to the phonecam onslaught.

I wouldn't even contemplate buying a cheap consumer digicam. My phone does the job already. But being an 'enthusiast' I did buy an RX100 (I could equally have bought an MX1 or GR).... unlike your average consumer digicam, these cameras offer much better IQ and usability than a phonecam.

Just to follow up on this, I used this app to transfer ALL my flickr photos at full size to a Google+ account. Worked perfectly and with no hassle.

Ahab, Ovoid and Guy have come up with a reasonable product but alas - it looks ridiculous.

You could buy cheap manual flashguns (any brand, even ones with just a low and high power setting would do, but manually adjustable ones are available) and trigger them with cheap chinese radio triggers.

Continuous lighting sounds like a good idea for close-up work though!

Sharpness IS very important to me. However, there are provisos:

Sharpness at the edge of the frame shooting at below f4 doesn't matter. 99% of the time, my subject will be somewhere in the middle and relatively close to the camera, and the edges/background will be more distant and therefore out of focus anyway. Only central sharpness matters here, and the DA20-40mm seems to have this in spades. Looking at Gary's review and lens tests, central image sharpness is comfortably in the 'excellent' range at all focal lengths and normal apertures, and actually goes off the chart a few time.

All over sharpness is something I only want in scenic shots really, where everything is distant or 'at infinity'. In this scenario, I will stop down to achieve depth of field, and again, the DA20-40mm does well here, at f5.6 to f11 achieving 'excellent' marks across the frame at all focal lengths.