After an afternoon shopping recently with my partner in my local curry's store, I noticed the usually poorly stocked and maintained dslr section of the store had a new arrival, with a rather large, shiny surround, a advertisement playing on loop, and 3 compatible lenses on show, was the k30. Now I don't really know how long this stand has been here, but it was hugely refreshing to see.

Along with the excitement of seeing this, a short trip to asda provided me with my first encounter with the Pentax Q.

Hopefully I haven't been walking around with my eyes closed and perhaps Pentax is receiving a little more of the exposure it deserves.

Has anyone else noticed a increase in Pentax products on the high streets?

Oh geez! I forgot about the old imperial system haha! They don't even teach it in schools anymore, I couldn't even tell you the conversion rates ( in liquid measurements anyway).

I'm 25 years old and I can remember it being 87.5p when I began driving, 52.5p rise in 8 years :/

Lens received! Thanks you very much! Brilliant lens, brilliantly packaged, Cheers Richard!

payment sent, thanks in advance!

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Thanks for the welcome everyone!

Thanks again guys! Very helpful of you, if the monitor and RAM count are the only points for questionable improvement, I'm a happy chap, I'm sure I can add these at a later date if I need them, hopefully this unit will last me a few years, again thanks for your comments, opinions are very welcome!

I noticed a colleague of mine using his camera for work purposes recently... Blew me away when I saw it was a Pentax... Only Pentax user I know!

I'd love to pick a "off the shelf" PC , but what I've seen around have nowhere near the specification as mentioned in my first post, I.e, the SSD drive, 2tb HHD, decent (I think??) processor, plus for 650 that comes with a 23" IPS screen. If you guys are running photoshop with cheaper units with no problems at al,l then I'd be more than happy to save a few £££ for a new lens

Thanks for your replies!