Lol, no, sorry, it's a K lens, smc f3.5 18mm. Finger trouble or maybe wishful thinking....

Hope I've not been partly responsible for Matty getting into trouble with the missus.....

Bummer about the job, Mike. Very interested in the FA 20mm if you do decide to sell it.

Thanks for the link! I've been after an smc A f3.5 18mm for a while, just looking for one at the right price. Was just outbid on one a few days ago. The smc A f3.5 15mm looks good too, but fetches ridiculous money. There's one full of fungus on ebay for 600 quid at the moment.

Go on Matty, you know you want it! It's one of my 3 favourite lenses, and if you do any IR, this lens is the best I have found yet. No hot-spots at any aperture and incredibly sharp.

I'm really liking Windows 8 for using Photoshop, I can use the keyboard, mouse or the stylus. The stylus is great for making selections or using some of the tools.

I can't really see the point of scanning negatives with a smartphone...why not just take pictures with the phone instead? They'll be better quality than scans, and there's enough apps available to make them look like any film you want.

Here's the place for any discussion regarding the 300th weekly competition.

Another thought- how full is your hard drive? If it's got less than a few gigs of memory left then you will also get a problem with virtual memory, as it uses space on your hard drive.

You can also probably get away with setting 3526mb of virtual memory rather than the 5632mb I mentioned in my previous post, but the larger figure is better. If you are changing it, set the minimum and maximum size to the same number. That way it will allocate all the space on start-up, rather than having to keep increasing the paging file size while you are using it. If you have two hard disks, split the virtual memory equally between both drives (ie 3526mb on each).

What operating system are you using? You may not have enough virtual memory allocated. This works on Windows 8, as far as I remember it's the same on XP or Vista.

Go to Control Panel>System>Advanced System Settings>Advanced and click the Settings button under Performance. Click Advanced and check you have 5632 mb allocated. If not, click the Change button, untick the box at the top, select Custom Size and change the allocated memory to 5632mb. Click Set then OK, close the box and restart your computer.

Thanks, think I will give this lens a miss....