A lady congratulated me today on the size of my equipment! I said that’s something I don’t hear very often; she was referring to the DFA 70-200 f2.8 on my K1.

I can recommend the Victoria Hotel in Bamburgh.

Stub, looking at this another way you could probably buy the filter system for the difference in cost between a Pentax and the equivalent camera from another, but I think we are getting distracted from the point of this thread, which is Bill’s excellent work.

This weekend we are getting constant brief power cuts, Wester Power’s explanation is their HV supply is being tripped by.........a squirrel, or a bird, or a tree?! What!!! And my call to WP was cut off by yet another.

Thanks for this, a masterclass and such a nice chap. Thoroughly enjoyable.

Hi Bill, I was on a course with Valda Bailey who does amazing multi-exposures and she was just running through the capabilities of different cameras, some did up to ten, Sony you need a special app to do a couple, and so on, then she said “Rob’s Pentax does 2000!” You could have heard a pin drop. Smug looks from Canikon owners vanished. Dark blend mode is one she uses a lot and yes please Pentax bring it in - maybe even as a software update.

Even my K50 does 10 multi! I think the reason the K1 does so many is the capability for the interval setting, another feature I haven’t tried yet.

My sincere apologies Stub, I must have got the wrong impression. As for the range, Pentax and Leica are the only brands offering three distinct formats with lenses to suit and you know which of those has the larger range. It is a relatively small company with a large field to cover. The range is good although there are a couple of gaps, but at least there aren’t any real crocks.

What point is being made here? The new Hasselblad X system has just 9 lenses, the other 12 lenses and no third party options. Leica TL has just 6 lenses and M system 25 lenses. At those prices you wouldn’t want more than three anyway, and none reach over 135mm. So, is the number of lenses available a reliable gauge of a manufacturer’s standing? If Pentax is to retain or grow its market share against the big rivals then I suspect it’s strategy is to offer something a bit different. And remember that other than Leica Pentax is the only company offering cameras and lenses in three formats: APS-C, FF and MF, which is a large field to cover with new products.

An interesting set, not many know that Pentax cameras have great potential in this sort of creative work, far more so than others, and maybe we don’t explore it enough (not you, obviously).

Stub, you are obviously justifying the reasons you have changed brands, but I fail to understand why you are still posting negative comments here unless deep down you still need to convince yourself. Your views are not universally held, it’s your choice but please allow others to be happy with theirs.