DA Ltd coasters?

No No No Mowog! Colour can add immensely to street photography, it's another layer of information. link

That said, colour doesn't make much of a contribution here - only 'Pink Granny' benefits from colour IMO. The colour of her clothing is integral to the observation that she is 'young at heart' and there's a cool tie in to the barbershop pole.

I'm thinking this, the DA21mm and the ubiquitous 50mm f1.7 would make a killer pocket arsenal of IQ....

More separation would mean a wider aperture to blur the background, but it's blurred out enough for my taste. I like the dog shots very much. The quad shots are excellent snapshots too. Looks like you had a good first outing with the k-5.

I think I actually prefer this one, i-berg.

I think I know what you are getting at Gary. Sometimes the Gallery displays a run of really attractive shots. Sometimes its not a great advert for Pentax! All you can do is offer a bit of polite constructive criticism. I hope that people would do the same for me.

My particular bugbear is excessive cropping. To me it's an absolute cardinal sin to crop to nearly a 100% view in order to make a distant robin fill the frame. Especially when it was shot at ISO3200. Not tweaking the levels is almost as bad though.

That W90 looks so cool! I am really tempted by it when I see shots like that! (Is that Grindsbrook?)

Crumbs you must have a very wide chimney

Buying used is often a sensible move if you're unsure. You can always flog it on when the temptation to get a K-5 gets too strong!

Not sure about that one Gary! The K-7 looks a lot happier in silver, though, presumably because it's a bit more 'classic' in shape. And although it's only a paint job, at least it would feel like metal, rather than silver plastic!