PS thanks for the info!!!

I don't really need it I guess as I have a Tamron 90mm for macro and a 50mm A f1.4. On those MTF figures it doesn't seem to outperform my f1.4 by much. Looks like a nice lens though. I tried to get it for £50 but he wasn't having it, so I probably won't bother. Strange shop, lots of old lenses in there, and price didn't seem to vary much with quality. There was a 50mm M f1.2 with a bit of fungus he wanted about £80 for.

Does anyone know what one of these lenses is worth? I am in Guangzhou in China and spotted one today in mint condition. After 30 minutes of haggling I had got the shopkeeper to drop the price from £100 to £85, but he wouldn't go any lower. Very sharp lens it seems from the pics I took with it. They also had a 40mm smc M f2.8 pancake lens for about the same price but the pictures I took trying it out have no contrast for some reason, very milky looking, so won't bother with that one.

I like the first one, though like you I find the the top of the hat being missing slightly annoying too. Number 3 I think would look quite interesting cropped to the top of his waist, with the girl on his back not in the shot, and a bit cropped off each side, with her left shoe cloned out, though it would make it a completely different shot.

I prefer the second one too. The gold of the statue could perhaps be tweaked a bit, the statue straightened as Robbie pointed out, and, personally, I'd probably cheat a bit and magnify the bird in the top left slightly.

I like it, but I think a bit more of your dead body in the frame would improve it....and there's some strange pixellated smears in the red background to the right of her hat and below the picture frame that look a bit messy. Also a bit of what looks like flare from a light behind her right arm?

Cool shot though!

I prefer the first one, because of it's composition, though the second one has nicer colours, even though the composition could have been improved. The first one looks like it was taken in the middle of the day, the light seems a bit flat and there's no shadows. The rocks look slightly odd to me as well, as if the bottom part of the picture has been processed slighly differently. The rusty ring just does not look quite right.

In the second one the colours seem a bit more real somehow. What doesn't look realistic is all those leaves on the table and the near-side bench. They look like they have been placed there.

Both pictures look like they have been manipulated, in different ways. But maybe i'm just trying to read too much into both pictures.

I agree, nice set, especially the first one.

I really like the one of the ball on the canal...

The third one is my favourite too. The last one I like a lot too, but think a squarer crop taking a bit off the bottom might improve it.