All Japanese exporters have been struggling with the fall in the value of the pound. Down 25% in two years versus the Yen. that will dent anyones income from UK sales.

I think Chris at SRS answered this a few days ago. I have always found SRS to be very keen on pricing, with some great deals on offer regularly. Plus they have a store where you can try out products and get excellent customer service if you have a problem. Plus Chris is a member of this forum and you can enter into a discussion or PM directly with him.

In what is clearly a very competitive market, i don't think you do yourself any favours by trying to second guess anyones pricing decisions. As you point out yourself it is very easy to price check with the click of a mouse and if you don't like one store's price tag you have the option to go elsewhere.

First we had salmon packaging as a reflector, now we have mixing bowls; biscuit tins; and coffee tins!

Think we should get Blue Peter to sponsor the forum !

Very nice. John has hit the nail on the head...subtle.

Good set. You certainly had the weather for it

Lovey set. 2 and 5 for me

Yes, agreed

The DA*300 has full frame coverage so no need to use crop mode. I can't speak for the Sigma.

But remember that in crop mode on the K1 you are only using a 15mp portion of the sensor. Whether images from this will be equal to the 24mp sensor of the K3, you will have to do some research. I would imagine that for most practical purposes they will be, but perhaps it will depend how close you get to your subject.

Safe journey to you. And thanks again for the great 28mm shift lens.

When it first started the conditions were that images should not be "manipulated" too much, so excessive HDR for example would be rejected.

In recent years i have seen many digital art type photos and even worse a succession of similar images of the same subject by the same shooter.

They havn't updated it for the K1 so that tells a story in itself.