Evidently you know as much about fauna as you do about photography!

It's available new at £257....link

I was watching this lens on ebay, as my wife is interested in getting one to use with her new Kx. The winning bid on this second-hand lens link was more than 70 quid over the price of a new one, and 60 quid more than the seller paid for it new! What on earth possesses people to continue bidding when it obviously doesn't make any sense?

I love the eyes and the metallic look of it's head. Excellent focus.

It's a sad waste of a great talent....

I think the DSLR's days are numbered.....it's an archaic design and as for us old farts who think we know what a camera should look like, well, we are not going to inherit the earth. Hybrid designs make a lot of sense. Where Pentax has the advantage is in their committment to backwards compatability. Show me a hybrid video/stills camera that can do a high quality 20mp photograph or full 1020 HD video that will take my old manual focus lenses and I will probably buy it.

Nice is fun.....

Hadn't realised that was Shaun Ryder...never seen him wearing a flat cap before... I like the colour version.

The picture of your wife looks bettr with the crop, but looks a bit soft and perhaps lacking contrast. Can you get back some of the highlights? I like the crop, it works really well.

If you can find a Sigma 24mm Super-wide II, then I would get it. I got mine, which is manual focus, for 30 quid and it's probably my best lens in terms of IQ. It's even very good wide open. I just missed an AF version on ebay for 15 quid....

My favourite of all of these is And at 250mm F10: I love the grainy look. It could perhaps do with a touch more contrast?

I went off Iggy Pop, who was one of my childhood heroes, afer he started doing those appalling adverts, which possibly colours my view of that shot.

The first shot is a lovely portrait, but either too high key or not enough, can't make up my mind which. I think perhaps a tighter crop might improve it, it looks slightly imbalanced IMHO with her right shoulder cut off.

I really like the rain in the last one but it doesn't look quite in focus to me.