Well, sure. Wasn't meaning my comments to stand in for a full read of the manual! Just a couple suggestions. I find however that one or two stops of faster shutter speed is all that's needed. Unless the band are performing on horseback or something.

By the way I'm just down the road in Limerick. Sometimes we have meetups in Cork but I've actually never met many photogs in Dublin.

I hope you enjoy the new flash. By all means check out the features, especially these two:

The secondary "reflector" (actually it's a flash) allows you to beam forward some fill light while using the main flash as a bounce. Can work wonders on portraits.

The HSS mode gives you the ability to pick a faster shutter speed than the sync rate, at the cost of a stop or two of maximum light. Nice for action.

I was looking at Ned's images yesterday. They certainly put this camera in the top ranks of point'n'shoots.

It's an incompatible universal format; in other words, Adobe controls it. Stupid, huh?

Thanks for the correction - I had forgotten about this. Still, my basic point stands, in that continuous calls and threads for full-frame and APSC mirrorless have littered the forums.

I do not. Because making toy cameras and toy lenses for those with money to burn is not a goal I wish to encourage in a photographic company. Obviously it will do well in Japan. But I hope it fails abysmally everywhere else and sends a sharp message back to Pentax.

Given that Pentax has limited R&D money and assembly line resources, wouldn't people have preferred an APS-C mirrorless camera that takes all the current K-mount lenses?

Wouldn't people have preferred a full-frame DSLR?

Funny, because that's what people have been calling for. I can't remember reading even one post amongst tens of thousands on half a dozen forums that ever said "Let's have Pentax make a point'n'shoot with interchangeable lenses."

Have fun with the FA77!

I would get the Metz 58 AF-2 depending on cost. I bought the previous model used for a decent price.

Just a note that the newest model is the Metz 58 AF-2. I have the previous and really like some of its unique features (eg secondary reflector).