Thanks Stefan

what is a pol? You will have to excuse my ignorance please

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As the wine glasses were empty so all I had to soothe myself in the shed were these addictive droplets

Decided to play more with colours while shooting them this time.

Hope you like them and C&C as usual will be greatly appreciated.

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Tony, where do you think I headed soon I got home?

Straight to the shed where I have my glasses

Hi everyone

I am back from an absolutely horrendous meeting with regard to these lenses.

I am still fuming with the situation that occurred a couple of hours ago so before I sat down here to write I had to take a breather. I am not known to blow my top off, usually. I tend to keep my cool but this time it just went all pear shaped.

I would rather not go into details as writing it all down here will just revive the situation mentally for me and I want to avoid it. We all had a rather hectic evening last night oops, may be a misplaced joke here but I guess after a couple of exchange PMs with the people involved might take my point as a humouristic one again .

I explained to a couple of members here with whom I usually am in contact regularly through PM what the niggles were about acquiring all the lenses at the same time, and that I think was on monday if I am not mistaken. So decided to get three at a time as my contact didn't have his own money to buy them and wanted me to put the cash into his account first and then on tuesday he was going to pay for them and give them to me. Obviously this wasn't acceptable for me so I decided to reduce the risk and give him enough cash for just 3 lenses, which he bought and I collected them from him on tuesday. The deal was I deposit again the same amount on tuesday in his account and he would bring me again 3 lenses the next day. Surprise surprise, didn't hear from him yesterday and I started panicking. Finally managed to contact him today after lots of effort and voicemails left and he blurted out to me that all the lenses were gone and he had the money to return. Knowing him the way I do I pushed him a bit and he ended up telling me that he knew the person who bought them all and if I was interested he could put me in touch with him and he would sell it. I knew at this stage that things were taking a turn to the worse, so anyway a few hours ago I went and met them. It turned out that they wanted to make money out of the sale and not just a small commission as I had promised £20 for each lense. They had already researched the usual prices inclusive they had decided that they were going to sell it on e-bay.

To make the story short, we got into heated argument and it was clear to me soon that I wasn't going anywhere by just blowing my top off. So in the end tried to negotiate with them and tried to convince that they wouldn't manage to unload all those lenses at once and surely they had their money tied up so if they agreed to a compromise I would take them all from them. I ended up sticking up my neck and also taking a risk but a quick calculation made me think that the final offer they were giving me for at £370 each was still a good value, so I agreed and brought them all with me. Checked all the lenses properly, each and everyone of them, got the Dixon's receipt from them to cover for any warranty issues, and then issued an online transfer of funds directly from my account to the guy's account.

So this is the story I am afraid. I have a pile of lenses here and if anyone still wants it then please drop me a PM but unfortunately they are not at the price that I got the first three lenses. Those were already allocated and I passed it to the members in the list also.

If anyone wants them I would rather sell them to the members and the rest I will flog them on e-bay. Whatever small profit I make out of them will be well worth it to cover the stress of getting them.

This was the whole story anyway.

thanks

Amin

Peace at last
So good to see the calmness descend again into the forum, with all the respected members now having a smile

Can I post some emoticons now?
Please please let me they are so much fun

Well, let's all just relax a bit and take it easy now.

Won't upload any emoticons even though I really would love to, I find those jumping moving images just hilarious . Well not until I hear back from Martin and making sure he understood my point about the emoticons. I have already made my peace with George as after reading Martin's comment I was weary that George would have thought that I was aiming to make fun of him. Far from that, I think in my short time here in this forum I believe I have left it clear that I have a huge respect for each and every individual here and I owe a great deal of respect and admiration for your dedication and work, and I owe a great deal of appreciation for all the help I have had so far. Hardly a few months ago you would catch me asking to clarify what a term such as "stopping down" meant, and I find today that I have made a few bits of improvements that I can convey in the work I do. Simply put, I love photography and it has given me more and more pleasure the more I dive myself into it.

I for one am definitely in a more relaxing mood after a few puffs of smoke in the shed (and nope, I am not going to upload the images so stay relaxed). Those coloured smokes tend to affect differently to each individual, so you will just have to do without any images here, this time at least ha .

Well, there were a few glasses of wine too but stayed away from it as I am going out shortly and will be driving .


Richard thank you so much. Eagerly awaiting for that parcel to arrive

Richard, are you serious?
And pardon my ignorance with all these models that I do not understand much, but you mean with this camera I will be able to attach a small range pentax lens and use it? So its not like one of those film cameras that are point and shoot? .

And it has some manual settings that I can input etc?

I am jumping off my chair here
do you want to PM me letting me know how much you want for it?

Reading the way you describe these fantastic oldies with so much nostalgic feelings just makes me want to go and get my hands on one and try it .

May be I will and then it will give me that bridging feeling that will help me more even appreciate what already is a great and absorbing hobby of mine

Nope, I don't think you got that quite well. Sorry but seems you got that wrong, and this is how arguments arise.

My understanding is simply that some people think and feel that they will be better served by a different model or system. What is their priority in the feature list will be more satisfied by either upgrading within the same system or changing systems. I am sure they would be sacrificing certain aspects but that's how their priority list is. I did not read anywhere anything which mentions that their changing would provide them with a perfect solution. I did read however being mentioned that it would suit their needs, that's totally different from my understanding.

But what do I know about understanding english language?
After all I am just someone with an imperfect grasp of the understanding and use of the English language whose language skills were obtained in a humble British educational system