Late to this discussion and little to add that George has not already said. I just shot my first film in 20 years, but it was 645, the minimum I would consider is worth doing as a step up from digital. And that's only because I cannot afford the equivalent digital setup, not because film is somehow "better". In fact film is so much more limiting in so many ways.

It is possible to limit oneself and think through photography from basic principles with digital. Just mounting a manual lens helps.

Famous last words! I have two 1TB drives for backup and 1/2 TB for main photo storage. All are almost full. And I haven't even started scanning film.

There you go. I prefer 35mm on film and 28mm on APS-C. Or, on the other side of normal, I quite like what 50mm looks like on digital.

But I don't mean to take anything away from the wonderful DA35.

1. It's bad for manual focusing in any but the macro range. Since I often skip AF, this was an issue for me.

2. It is not a focal length that feels comfortable to me on digital.

3. It is not fast.

It's a great lens, but there is no perfect lens.

If someone really wants something from me they'll corner me in a dark alley and pull a knife. Happened once. But still I don't waste much time worrying about such things.

This is no doubt a real risk but not as much with this bag as you might think. It needs to be unzipped almost all the way across and yanked down quite firmly to make enough room to remove gear. This is not a pack made for quick access and that is one reason I like it (and others might not).

A sling pack or nearly any other kind of bag is more at risk.

Just the same, I would not wear it in dense crowds.

Thankfully, though, no thief knows what a Pentax is.

Purses and laptop bags are, I think, the first two things a thief would grab.

That shot is unnatural; those sheep are far too interested in you. Were you wearing something green?

Oh, and no friends of mine have 32 bottles of anything in their cupboard. But that's because they're friends of mine.

The car boot sales around here only have bits of old string and videos from the eighteenth century, badly treated tin and appliances for the hair.

Photography? Didn't that go out with the Beatles?

One bag is squarer than the other. I can't help more than that, but did write an extensive article on my favourite.

The Perfect Camera Bag?