I hope the move goes smoothly and you find the change conducive to more of your excellent photography! We're hoping to get back to the UK in two years or so, sooner if some plans come to fruition.

I've not done much photography in the UK at all, it would be interesting to see if I could actually come up with anything original there or not.

Ditto...

Have you tried Spencers ? They will convert pretty much anything, and already sell converted Hasselblads. so they have done medium format cameras before.

Thanks for all the comments! The K5 is still a remarkably capable camera, in spite of being three generations old now.

If you are buying it, the $70 off option ends on the 20th.

Smeggy, all the images are on my flickr stream at full size, I find that the resizing the forum does on the full size images messes them up.

Happy birthday, David, lovely present!

I quite like the composition, but the building across the river and the bright halo round it are a bit distracting. The water and bridge look lovely though.

Thanks for the comments! #'s 1 and 3 are taken with the Sigma 8-16mm, which is a truly outstanding lens. It outperforms my 15mm Ltd quite significantly, especially at the edges. I also love what it does to skies, it's like it has a built-in polariser. In fact, I haven't used the 15mm Ltd. since buying the Sigma, so will probably be selling it.

Also, DXO Optics Pro 9 (I know I keep on about this software, but it's been a revelation) recognises the Sigma at 8mm, which Adobe products don't, so distortion is corrected automatically.

#'s 4 and 5 are taken with my M/F Sigma 24mm f2.8 Mini-wide II, wide open.

I like the first kingfisher shot, though a bit of background might improve it. As is it looks like an illustration from a book rather than a bird in the wild. In the second kingfisher shot, the wing and body feathers look smeared, and I see it was shot at only ISO 640. It looks like it's had too much noise reduction.

I've not posted anything here for while, so thought I'd post a few recent night shots.

Kuala Lumpur
The second one is HDR














Doha. They seem to be competing for worlds tackiest skyline. The first one is a handheld pano from 5 shots taken from a boat. The RAW files were converted to Tiff in DXO Optics Pro 9, which is proving to be an exceptionally good bit of software. Both shots at ISO 1600.










Dubai

I've found from experimentation that I can get better results underexposing this type of shot by two stops and processing using a combination of smart lighting and exposure in Optics Pro 9, then using the prime noise engine, than I can get by shooting at the correct exposure. I could still do with an improvement in high ISO from the camera though. This was shot at ISO 1600 and f2, whereas I'd normally shoot it at ISO 3200 and f1.4.