Surely they can do that already? Doubt they're interested in aesthetic differential focus effects! Seeing from slightly different angles in partial 3d might interest them though.

Are you really saying that gadget loving consumers wouldn't love this sort of camera? I think it'll be massive.

On the focus stacking front, this has now been implemented on a number of p&s cameras. Please get it sorted Pentax! Another suggestion would be a hyperfocal mode. Would work as above with the start and end focus points selected but instead of stacking, the camera would select a suitable focus and aperture. You could let it go into stacking mode if it couldn't achieve the desired focus depth by hyperfocal alone.

You are just trivialising the HRA by citing it in this way. If you were trapped inside Pentax User and had no other outlet, I might have more sympathy but...

The Q does it with a filter or maybe through merging two shots with different focus settings (current Sony compacts do this). This is something else though.

So basically it captures all the information to create a '3D model' of the scene, which you can then capture snapshots of with various camera settings or slightly different shooting angles?

That is remarkable. Focus bracketing is something which some compacts have already, and could be used in a similar way, but this is something new and amazing. Maybe they can put it in the next Q?

This is a very considered picture (2.5 days!!!) and I can't believe that anything we are perceiving as 'clutter' or 'imbalance' is there out of sloppiness on the part of the photographer. This isn't some cheezy commercial portrait photographer you know - he's an artist with all sorts of interesting ideas about historical and social context etc!

There is a problem when we try and interpret this sort of work through the 'rule book' approach to photography pushed by the magazines and certain photography books.

Me too actually! No issue with K7 files on Corel VS Pro or Windows Movie Maker.

The 'Toy' lenses will be similar to lensbabies, but only cost $80 each. Thats... about £60? Lensbabies cost well over £100.

The fisheye (not designated a 'Toy' lens, so probably optically good) is most interesting to me. It's suggested price is £130... not bad! When the camera price comes down, the Q + fisheye lens might almost look competitive with the DA10-16mm, and it would certainly get you places where a DSLR or even a Sony NEX would draw too much attention.

No it's rectilinear, with a bit of barrel disortion at 8mm but it's less distorted than the 10-20 is at 10mm. In fact it's pretty much distortion-free! The filter thing is a bit of a pain if you use them.

I have the 10-20mm and am quite happy with it and that's really a good price. The 8-16mm warrants a closer look though, as does the newer version of the 10-20mm IMHO - I've seen nice work with it and the odd no. of aperture blades gives a good sunstar: http://www.flickr.com/photos/class_a/5165269923/

For all things Sigma 10-20mm related: http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/lens-clubs/84539-sigma-10-20mm-club-101.html

I think you would still hold the copyright but you have agreed that they can use the photos for whatever purpose. So I don't think they could sell them, but they can display them on their website, use them for promotional material etc - anything connected to the club.