Looks good! The brown bit in the background of the spider shot is a bit distracting. I really like the processing on the car. What's that thing on the garage door?

Hope the aperture blades sort themselves out.

Those first pictures are taken in Doha; the person who took them must have used a stonking great lens because that tower,( (The Doha Torch)is 800 feet tall, which makes me wonder if there may be other factors at play (focus, camera shake). I will have to see if I can find out who took them and have a chat with him/her.

Edit: Those second shots look pretty convincing though, as do the ones Robin linked to

I'm quite interested in the idea of the K5 IIs, as moire is not a problem in most of the shots I take, but I'd really like to know how much more detail is it going to actually give? Also, how easy is it to remove moire if it's obvious on any particular subjects? I see that Lightroom 4 can be used to remove moire.

There's an interesting comparison of a 5D Mk III with and without the filter here, if it actually makes that much difference I think I will be getting a K5 IIs and forgetting about wishing for a FF Pentax completely.

I've never noticed any slowing down of Lightroom during noise reduction, sounds a bit odd...is your computera bit slow generally?
I have found Topaz de-noise slows things down though, so I've stopped using that.

I'm sure that having a wooden handle means it will take far better photographs.....

I cant say I agree with applying noise reduction at the end of editing, I always do it right at the start: better editing a file without noise than accentuating it during editing. I've never noticed it slowing anything down either. Sharpening should be the last action.

It's deja vu all over again.....

Unless you're shooting action I don't see any point in changing systems. I had to laugh when I told an old pro I met in Melbourne recently that the AF on my K5 wasn't working (thanks to Johnsons for fixing the lens release and returning a manual focus camera). His answer was "Aw, diddums". He shoots all his studio work using manual focus and home-made lighting set-ups. His newest camera was an Olympus E510.

A large section of the photographic community seems to have been brainwashed into thinking they must have the latest kit, with all the latest gizmos. Yet some pros are quietly carrying on with kit that most amateurs would consider obsolete.

Seems I just found the answer......link

I have been looking for an FA 20-35mm, and came across this Since this lens seem to be fetching ridiculous money (there is one going on ebay for £1234) I am not too sure about it. Some other Pentax lenses seem very cheap there too. I was wondering if anyone has had any dealings with this company?

If there were more thumbnails on each page in the gallery then I think multiple postings would not bother me so much. I also tend to think of a gallery as a place to post your best shots: if you have a number of similar shots, or a set from a days shooting, Your Photos seems like a more appropriate place for them imo. Unless of course you are not interested in comment or critique, which for most people here defeats the object of posting them in the first place. Meanwhile imo the general standard of images in the gallery is bound to drop when people can post a.lot of similar images at once.

Another result of multiple postings is that its easy to end up missing seeing some of the best images, as they are on page 3 or beyond sometimes in a matter of hours. I think that because of this many excellent images are not reaching the audience they did in the past. I'm also seeing less postings in the gallery recently from people whose work I think is a cut above the average, and wonder if I am just missing them, or whether they are posting less.

Just my opinion, I'm not having a go.