I'd echo others' experience - I used them for a warranty repair. It took 3-4 weeks with no information coming back (I only found they'd received it by ringing them) but the workmanship was impeccable when the camera finally reappeared.

That would depend (a) what resolution you were printing at, (b) whether you were matching the long side of the image to the long side of the paper or matching the short side - A3 is squarer than what comes from the camera and (c) how you were scaling it - with most scaling algorithms an image doesn't become progrssively blurrier but passes through certain particularly sharp sweet-spots.

In case that's not convinced you that's it's not a good measure, plugging some numbers in to get a rough estimate gives us this: the long side of A3 is 16.5" (assuming full bleed) which, at 240 ppi is 3960 pixels. The long size of a full resultion photo from the K-5 is 4928 pixels so to fit it to an A3 print you would need to reduce the image to 3960/4928=80% of its original size.

Cheers,
Paul

Right now what I really want would be....a release date and a specification!

Thanks for the correction. I wonder where I'd picked up the idea that the crop factor was 1.4?

Slightly off-topic, but 24 megapixels FF is nearer 12 megapixels APS-C - the number of pixels is a function of area rather than a linear one so you need to multiply by the crop factor twice.

Pedantic mathematician crawling back underneath his rock now...after all, 12Mp/APSC has been a sufficient pixel density for most purposes for several years.

I dub using the recorded audio track, but there's a stereo line out socket on it so I'd guess you could connect it to the camera with a 3.5mm to 3.5mm cable. I've not tried it but if I can borrow such a cable I'll give it a go and report back.

I use* a Zoom H1; this doesn't come with a hotshoe mount but it does have a 1/4" hole on the bottom and Amazon do a hotshoe to 1/4" adapter for about a fiver. I've found the combination to work well. Better than using the H1 on its own in fact as it has a cheap plastic case that creaks when handled but seems to sit on the camera without problem.

Cheers,
Paul

[*Strictly I suppose that should be "used" as I loaned the H1 to someone a while ago and the loan is becoming ever more extended... ]

I'm waiting to see the price. I'm not sure that there's any point in comparing the lens price to other brands as those tend to be FF and everything I've seen so far refers to the DA 560 (no FA, no *) so I'd be disappointed if it weren't significantly cheaper than other similar focal lenth lenses.

Doesn't blipfoto do this every day?

When I previously got a similar kit it was continuous lighting with fluorescent bulbs like these - so you get the equivalent of about 1000W.