That looks like fun! Davidwozere, I bet Kenilworth ford is worth a visit right now, there are always idiots who try to race through.

The Ricoh GR cameras have a fine reputation but unless you are happy with a single prime lens and no viewfinder then you need to look elsewhere. I get that phones have taken over the compact market but for me they are last resort only, I prefer a viewfinder over a screen which is often hard to see, and the ergonomics are dreadful. For a compact I use a Leica D-Lux 7 which is a poser’s version of a 16mp Panasonic, and the results are excellent.

I read somewhere that Wistman’s Wood was closed due to the number of visitors threatening to spoil the place, but it is good to see it is open again, another place on my bucket list I never seem to get around to visiting. The colour temp on the last one could be rectified in Lightroom or other software; a useful tip I picked up is that the underside of clouds should be a neutral grey unless lit from below at sunset or sunrise.

Curious that the first I heard about this updated K70 was an email from SRS, not mentioned here in the news section.

Thanks all, some fair points made. I have got reasonable prices for other Pentax lenses recently on eBay so I will have to look again at my minimum offer prices although I always search the site first to see what is being asked for similar items. I suspect MPB may be a good route for less than perfect examples which would be difficult to offload otherwise. I question though why this website has announced an exclusive arrangement with MPB when there is clearly no such thing.

Faced with a similar dilemma of weight versus quality I bought an M4/3 body and a couple of lenses in sales, for a truly lightweight walkabout solution. This leaves me with the K1 plus the f2.8 zoom series, the 150-450 and a couple of others for when I need higher resolution or to be more creative and when the weight isn't an issue.

I have just received a quote from MPB for two current Pentax lenses, both in excellent condition with boxes and original caps etc., for very low prices. For a 28-105mm lens currently new £629 I was offered £225, and for a 50mm f2.8 macro lens currently new £399 I was offered just £100. MPB has neither of these in stock with which to make a comparison but even with their markup I would have expected at least double these. It cannot be just Pentax as earlier in the year I was offered similarly ridiculous price markdowns for a Leica and Lee Filters.

These two lenses have been on eBay for a while at more realistic prices; I am not giving them away but if anyone is interested and would like to make an offer then please take a look.
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Sluggish focusing is a bugbear with the 100mm macro, although I recognise that manual focus gets used a lot. I had a recent shoot with the ring flash attached because the light was poor and it just couldn’t find focus, so I had to work manually. As it was an event I was documenting I was a bit rushed so missed sharpness on several shots.

I would but it’s been deleted! However here is the original from which the deer was taken, not bad in itself but lacking sharpness:

I just deleted my robust riposte to the above comments, after all this is Peter’s post and not the place for this debate.