I take it that's not the exact story you'll be telling the insurance people

Agree it's overpriced but £200? You can not be serious!

It's not aimed at the average compact buyer though really. If you want to buy a Q you will probably:

- Be irresistably drawn to dinky cool designs.
- Get a kick out of old-school manual controls.
- Want a camera that is extremely portable and unobtrusive.
- Like collecting little accessories and add ons.
- Be more interested in using cameras and taking pictures than staring at 1:1 crops on a computer screen.
- Have deep pockets.

Admittedly rather a small niche, but Pentax have clearly not priced this camera to sell on volume If this isn't you - "move along... nothing to see here"...

I find high end compacts like the Panasonic LX5 and Samsung EX1 (or indeed the new Pentax Q) more appealing. Pocketability makes up for the fact they're not as good as a DSLR, although they still look good enough for most purposes really. Bridge 'superzoom' cameras tend to be awkwardly shaped and you may as well get a DSLR imo.

You would get interchangeable high (and low!) quality lenses, Raw, manual controls, traditional external buttons, lovely styling, solid metal build, and a flash mount. The price is too high at the moment but it's pretty compelling if you value these things and a tiny size over the superior pixel-peeping quality a larger APSC sensor camera would give you. Rangefinder? It's got a screen for composing shots like any other compact.

There's Focus Magic, which can correct very slight focus blur, and directional movement blur. It's only incrementally better than normal sharpening though, except the movement blur which is slightly more impressive.

I torrented it specifically for correcting shutter induced blur, which it does a great job on - not that I see it very often with my k7

John of all people should know better than to start a discussion of Apple products

Lol you must be confusing 'background defocus' with 'subject defocus'!

No he just needs to change back to RGB mode as DOIK has already said

The lighting/exposure makes a difference I expect. You wouldn't seriously be shooting at those sensitivities anyway would you? Unless you were going for black and white grainy