Yeah when I said ignore snide comments, I was thinking of that comment of my own! The red one is a bit of a marmite colour. I would have gone for the blue personally, but we can't all have my impeccable sense of taste and style... lol

Steve, I do apologise. I had the impression that they were queueing up behind me. I thought the next guy would snap it up, I really did. I withdrew the cash from the bank on Thursday, so I really went to the wire on this, and did not pull out lightly. I just wish I could see and handle a k20d in advance so I know exactly what to expect (other that the legendary iq) particularly in respect of size and handling, but I couldn't expect you to hold it for me to come and 'try before I buy' while other people were showing a lot of interest in it. So I got out.

If you like the red one, you made the right choice! Ignore any snide forum comments re the red K-x we're just a load of old fogeys! Whatever colour of K-x you have, you have a great camera and i'm sure we're all delighted to welcome you to the Pentax fold!

Nice work! For me its the interior shots that have most poignancy.

If you don't mind the camera in white, navy or red, I thought this was a pretty good price from Park Cameras clearance section. Includes the 18-55mm. There are lots of the red ones - wonder why?

I think mine is actually P30n, looks a bit less plastic than the P30t's. Both are insanely cheap. P50 is a lovely sturdy metal camera.

But he would have had to sell nearly half of his lens collection to pay for that...

My favourite, although not the most useful or versatile, would be in the short tele range, maybe 135mm, because I like capturing little details and isolating them.

No problem! Sorry about the lack of paragraphs- unfortunately my phone doesn't allow that very easily.

As a Pentax user I can understand Mike Gosling's pain over the Pentax
lens price increases in 2009. There are a few points to take issue
with, however. Firstly, the lenses in question (DA Ltd series) are
high quality products which for a long time offered amazing value for
money. But Pentax is a smaller company which presumably struggles more
because of adverse exchange rates, than the big two who are better
placed to withstand short term losses. So a price rise was
inevitable. And the 'budget' lenses, perhaps of most interest to
'newbies', such as the 18-55mm, 50-200mm, and 55-300mm are all still
very keenly priced (and decent quality too). Let's not also forget
that third party lenses for Pentax obviously cost no more than for the
opposition, and can offer tremendous value. Secondly, he says Pentax
bodies are too expensive. A casual glance at the adverts in the back
of AP shows that the excellent K-x and K-7 are cheaper
than their nearest competitors, for example the Nikon D5000 and D300s.
Thirdly, he says that Pentax DSLRs aren't 'quite good enough'. Well,
the Pentax range may be small, but the current cameras have both
received excellent reviews if you look at a broad section of print and
online sources. And even Mr Demolder himself uses the Samsung version
of the Pentax K20D - need I really say more?