I'm selling my DA 17-70.

It's in perfect condition (like new) and complete with original packaging etc. Specifically selected to be free from any defects and purchased from SRS on 27/06/2009 so still has just over a years warranty left.

Asking £350 including free UK delivery. Payment by bank transfer or Paypal gift payment. It will be available until Wednesday evening May 5th as I already have a PX offer which is acceptable to me.

No pictures as everyone knows what they look like, but I can post some if insisted upon!

I'm selling my DA*60-250.

It's in perfect condition (like new) and complete with original packaging etc. Bought from SRS on 25/04/2009 so still has about a year warranty left.

Asking £760 including free UK delivery. Payment by bank transfer or Paypal gift payment. It will be available until Wednesday evening May 5th as I already have a PX offer which is acceptable to me.

No pictures as everyone knows what they look like, but I can post some if insisted upon!

I'm selling my SMC-A 50mm f1.7.

Optically it's perfectly centred amd it's in perfect condition with no blemishes, marks or fungus and is complete with (generic) front and rear caps. I don't think you could find a better example.

I'm asking £70 including UK delivery. Payment by bank transfer or Paypal gift payment.

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I'm selling my FA 50 macro. It's in A1+ condition and just been cleaned and serviced by Asahi Photo. It's probably the sharpest lens Pentax has ever made with great bokeh, totally flat field and zero distortion. Complete with original Pentax front and rear caps.

I'm asking £300 including free UK delivery. It will be available until Wednesday evening May 5th, as I have a PX offer that is acceptable to me.

Paypal gift payment or bank transfer.

Pictures:







Picture of my buddy Lance Blackburn taken with it! - I think he uses it as his avatar.

I'd be very surprised if the camera above the K-7 is FF, I suspect it will be an attempt to close ground with the 7D and D300s, features I personally expect will be (hopefully) AF improvements, 2 card slots (aka 645D) and maybe improved pipeline processing with a new sensor with better high ISO and improved DR performance, faster fps and full 1920x1080p HD.

If FF is announced, it may be another fairly long gestation time from announcement to release, but hopefully not as long as the 645D! FF lenses may be another issue.

New models will be announced by/at Photokina, probably not replacing K-x or K-7.

That's what I did, bought a bag from Debenhams for £15 and some inserts from Billingham:













I now have a proper Billingham bag, a 307, courtesy of my better half!

I used the National Geographic bags for a year or so after migrating from the Debenhams bag. More info here - link

The NG bags are very nice (as are the Domke bags), I think that the NG Medium would be a good choice and will hold the Macbook easily as well as all your kit.

It would require a reciprocal donation of around £800!

If Oly had made a decent AF version of the proper OM bodies, I would have stuck with them. I bought into the horrible IS1000 system and quickly switched over to Pentax (MZ series) and have stayed since.

In my opinion they survived the transition into digital by being early enough into the fray and the E-1 was a decent enough product to keep the ball rolling, but I think that in the end 4/3 has done them no favours. If they do drop 4/3 DSLR's as you suggest, it will be interesting to see if they jump into a larger sensor DSLR system or stay mired into micro 4/3.

If mirror-less micro-APS cameras develop further, it will be interesting to see what Pentax and the other major players will do.

Hmmm, intriguing times ahead.

I would vote for the DA*60-250 to grab that title, but it's a close call!

At least the 60-250 is unique to Pentax and has no Tokina clone.