The true test of a retail company comes with how they deal with customer complaints.

Option 2 I think.

As others have said seems an absolute bargain...even just for the Kf and 18-135 at £400.

I've got three bodies already...my next purchase will have to be another lens otherwise i'd have had it.

I'd never thought of that either. Good those Spad.

Might give it a try although I think i'll wait until its a lot drier to reduce the chances of standing on the masses of slugs we get round here.

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Karlo

Beautiful 'English' landscape.

We might get a lot of rain in this country but without it images like this just wouldn't exist.

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Karlo

Excellent images.

K5 is great value for money.

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Karlo

Some real characters there...great portraits as ever.

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Karlo

Nice varied selection there Spad.

Is that a bus shelter with the bench?

Most impressive one i've seen if so.

I particularly like the river shots with the cloud movement.

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Karlo

Yes...I thought that combination would be a very attractive proposition too (eventually!)

Is it not the limited edition K-3III Jet Black Monochrome version with the 20-40 Ltd attached?

Seemed to be what they were suggesting today.

I thought it might be the K-1 mk3 to warrant that headline.

Thanks Rick...images are very pleasing generally out of the camera...all jpeg originals. Some have the odd minor tweak but nothing much and AF with single spot selected (centre) doesn't have much trouble with large slow airliners...barely missed a beat.

Cheers Steve,

I used to go down to LHR in the seventies on overnight coach trips full of 'Spotters'...usually via Luton and often onto LGW late afternoon until midnight...they were the days! Used to take me a few days afterwards to recover.

I do miss the sheer variety of airliners and aircraft generally you used to get in the 70's and 80's...lots of props as well as jets.
So few manufacturers now and all designed by computer...only real highlight now is the effort spent painting them in ever more wayout or eyecatching schemes which do look good on digital screens, and at least I can afford to take more than 2 x 36 exposures on a trip!

If you look carefully Flan at some of the images you can just make out the odd Low Cost Carrier (LCC) in the background!

Hard to avoid as at Manchester the likes of Ryanair, Easyjet and Jet2 must comprise about 40-45% of all airliner movements (educated guess). If you then include TUi this will take the total to over 50%. But you are right...i've often featured images of the LCCs so thought i'd leave them out this time.

Agree with your comments about the DA*200...can't see myself selling this. When the price on the HD 70-210 f/4 drops a bit i'll probably get one but expect to keep the 200 which is capable of 10/10 optical performance although you can get some horrible PF even at F/4,5 or f/5.

It is awesome for portraits and does a good job as a pseudo macro for flowers and insects as it crops well if the image is sharp to start with. I take quite a few rowing images with mine and it excels at that as well.