Excellent shots...colourful and something we don't see much of on this site.

Only thing I have noticed...it may be me or my monitor...all the skies are full of digital artifacts running in bands. I've noticed this in lots of sky shots from many different contributors on all photo sites ..BUT only in the past few months...what is going on? Used to get the odd case but not as regular as now it seems.

Or is it just me?

Very nice...however a bit concerned that you haven't left enough space on the table now for your newspaper and cup of coffee.

Nice and colourful anyway.

regards

Karlo

Welcome to the site Mike,

North or South...i've a son over there at the moment...last i heard he was pruning Kiwis (fruit not people) east of Auckland.

regards

Karlo

My understanding was that EU suppliers selling to UK sell tax free, UK consumers then pay 20% VAT on import which will end up being approximately the same as the EU tax-paid price?

If i'm mistaken in my assumption here then I would expect market forces to quickly remedy that anomaly.

Looks very nice quality...however does seem very expensive in UK for no good reason.

Euro price is EUR 1499...about £1350 and we all know that US price is always lower than UK or EU.

I think 'our' price is a try-on to see how much extra profit Ricoh can make from 'Treasure island' .

I can't afford it so academic really...however SRS is selling the 16-85WR on their ebay site (new) for £525.

You could buy 2.85 x 16-85WR for the price of 1 x 16-50 PLM.

Ok ...you lose out on the f2.8 which is useful...but gain on focal range...much more useful than on 16-50.

I suspect it will drop in price very quickly to match the EU price otherwise why wouldn't you just import one from EU?

According to photorumors

Will be a lot of users quite pleased to see this lens I suspect.

...Intrigued.

Interesting question...although i'm not really much help as i've only ever used Pentax Digital.

I do like the Pentax menu system overall and find it quite intuitive even between different models although i'm still adjusting to the K-5IIs from the K-50 which I found really easy to use after owning for 5 years.

A lot depends on the variety of shooting one does as well...my main interests are aviation (split into jets / props and rotors as need a different approach for each subtype), flowers, insects. I prefer using manual more often than auto modes and usually set to TAV more often as i can control 2/3 variables and have confidence in floating the ISO given Pentax's good NR performance.

If i'm out walking by the river taking pictures of flowers with the Samyang 135 or Pentax 100 macro and a helicopter or light aircraft flies over I can instinctively switch into 'props and rotors' mode within 4-5 seconds
to make the best of the opportunity with possibly a less than ideal lens for that of type of shot. Outside my linked 'comfort zones' though I would be a lot slower and probably fluff the shot because I would be thinking about the best settings to use...experimentation to some extent due to lack of practice, reducing the chances of a 'good' shot.

Age comes into it as well...my son has switched through Pentax, Canon, back to Pentax, Sony and now Olympus. He seems to spend just a few hours setting up each new camera to his liking then goes out and generally takes some very good images from then on in using many more in camera functions than i tend to use...but then again i'm still using a 2G phone and see no reason to change to a 'smartphone' !

Aviation analogy you use is a good one...but how about this...my son and I were at Sleap airfield during the week on way back from a couple of hours at RAF Shawbury having undertaken our annual visit to take helicopter shots. This light aircraft parked up and two guys got out...one of whom was a 30 something QFI
who was teaching the other guy IMC flying...they'd done Blackpool-Sleap-Wellesbourne (near Stratford-on Avon)-Sleap and were on way back to Blackpool after a quick brew in cafe. The instructor had 'just under 12,000' hours flying...complaining as he'd only done 400 hours so far this year! He was constantly changing aircraft some club owned, some privately owned and loved his vintage flying as well...not just modern...his brain must have been constantly having to switch to different checklists, performance parameters etc every time he climbed into a different aircraft...sometimes several times a day. I found it a struggle keeping up with just one!

In my limited experience Gareth I've found it works better if you take the IS off.

Pentax K 50mm f/1.2 as alerted by LennyBloke a few days ago.