Not with tuba players, we don't have that much choice. More likely to be discussing beer...

Plus a bigger mirror, a bigger focusing screen, a bigger lightbox, a bigger shutter....

You could make a small FF camera, I am sure (and if anyone can Pentax can, they have made a speciality in that sort of thing) but it would be much more work than just stripping out the sensor in a K-7.

If Pentax made a K-7 sized FF camera for sub-£1000 I'd consider it for the viewfinder alone. I have plenty of FF glass! But I am not yearning for FF. I am mainly concerned that Pentax stay in business and think that they really need to have a wider range of models available. I don't think any of us would disagree that to someone newly looking for a camera, having only two current models does look mighty thin.

K.

Only by throwing away 1/3 of your negative (i.e. 1/3 of your image data) whereas as 15mpx APS-C sensor has the same quantity of information as a 15mpx FF sensor. Your model size would be the same, but the number of pixels would not be unless the FF camera has 33% more than the APS-C.

It pleases me no end, actually, that you are happy to mix and match marques. If I could afford the Canon TS lenses I'd buy a Canon body (actually I already have one) in an instant but I would keep my Pentax stuff too.

The only thing that gets my goat is non-Pentax users running the marque down when they clearly know nothing about it.

K.

Yes, looking much better. K.

I'll just take you to task on that one. I buy old Pentax glass (especially Taks) because I get great performance from them. Using the sweet spot from the centre of the image circle means that I avoid all the "soft at the edges" type issues. OK, so my 28mm SMC Takumar now has the FOV of a 42mm but I knew that when I bought it, and it makes a fine standard lens. The 43mm Ltd on my LX and the 28 Tak on my K20D makes a nice combination.

The only lenses where one doesn't get "the full benefit" would be older ultrawides and fisheyes, and the shift lens. I want something close to the classic 85mm FOV, I stick on the K 55mm, 200mm? I use the K 135mm, and so on.

K.

I already have equivalents of most of those bits and pieces. If you don't want to throw them away, give them to a charity shop.

K.

The third one is great. Very scary! K.

Fascinating and poignant set of images. I, too, am attracted to visiting and photographing graveyards.

K.

The principal thing I miss with my digital cameras everytime I pick up my LX/MX/KX/ES is the viewfinder. It feels like watching a film in the cinema compared to watching it on a portable TV. I've tried the magnifying viewfinder thing and it doesn't make much difference really. Having said that, I'd rather Pentax spent their R&D money on widening their range of lenses and making the 645 a success.

If they were thinking of adding another range to their line-up, the mirrorless PEN-style cameras are a growth sector, and one I personally think will become very important.

K.

There seem to be two things going on there. Firstly, they are leaning in because you have the camera tilted up a little but secondly the straight edges are not straight (unless that lamp post really is bent like a banana ). You'll need to apply both lens correction and perspective correction...