ok, Danny 1

24 lenses available new plus one display model

I need to know quickly how many should he buy please

hehehe just spoke to my man, he is in T3 and was at Dixons and he has access to T5 also with his pass.
Now he is just going to confirm to me after checking with them how many lenses are available.

Going to call me in 15 mins.

Quickly please let me know how many lenses he should get and I have promised him also something for his troubles. I dont mind then driving to meet him and pick up the lenses,

awaiting your replies please as he is able to pay straightaway with his card.

just do not want to get lingered with any lenses

Shim, do you know which terminal is this store? I just remembered a friend who works inside duty free shop who might manage to confirm this stock, well he is at one of the 1/2/3 terminals so I would assume either one of those would be accessible to him

Well, I have been following this thread which Shim has contributed with a lot of effort with some research. I wanted to chip in my help if required. I have a Pentax 12-24mm already so although I won't be needing one I am quite happy to help others acquire this lens if there is anything I can do.

For starters I live literally 15 to 20 minutes drive from heathrow terminals, so driving there is no problem. And secondly if really it needs to get someone who has a security pass to enter the terminals to buy these lenses I might even manage to locate a friend or two who work inside there to get them for you all. But this only as a last resort as I haven't been in touch with them for a long time and ideally I would like to not need their help. But I am most willing to go around and do the footwork etc and pay for the goods and then ship them to each of you who is interested.
let me know if there is anything I can do from my end.

Martin

Ah, yes , no water series would be complete without the complementary crown effect from the drop and you have achieved it to the T here
You are definitely on a roll now . I like what I see, and its nice to see droplets bug catching up. Keep at it.

Do I sense an off board flash coming up on your kit soon? that would be a nice addition in the setup .

Martin, you are getting too good at this now , and pretty fast at perfecting it also .

Honestly, this last effort of yours has reaped fantastic results. That looks wonderful. I am pretty sure its not only the different fluids that is making the difference, I could bet my bottom dollar that you are learning to tweak little things as you develop your skills on these droplets . I notice on this last one for example the lack of little droplets , I didn't want to call your attention to that on your previous batch of images, I knew being perfectionist as you are you were bound to get there and tweak it accordingly . And you didn't disappoint me, lo and behold here it is one that is just perfect without those sorrounding droplets .
This last one has really all the hallmarks of a beautiful image, would look lovely as a wall poster.

Paul, let me be the first to congratulate you on this. I know how a good professional you are and your great and deep experience in the field makes you the best person to judge what is best for you.

I know its the man behind the camera that makes the picture but come on, common sense even dictates that for a knowledgeable and experienced person different standard of tools provide different standard of results.
If it was as simple as just being the person responsible for quality of images then the analogy for that is give a skoda to Lewis Hamilton and you should expect him to get similar performance to a Mercedes in his hands.

By the way, I too liked the D700 handling and AF performance
Sounds a great choice for your purposes. I am happy for you

Martin, I would understand the lack of Ooompf factor due to Clarky's rush rush and not giving it proper PP but I am just a bit puzzled with the noise at ISO 200. The link you put up with his previous images are prime examples for comparision.

Do we need to put the images shot at ISO 200 through noise reduction engines drastically in order to get some reasonable shots without noise? I would have thought that at ISO 200 images would have been pretty good considering that noise control is one of the features that K20 and I assume K7 are supposed to be well known for.
Unless of course I am missing something again here, so please indulge me.

Clarky
I think they mean the noise on the images. And I don't think they meant really your inability shooting the images compared to your other previous stunner ones, but although they haven't worded it but I think we are trying to say that seems that K7 is not that much different in your hands than the K20.
Please someone correct me if I am wrong here please ok? Ken, Mike... is this what you all are saying is it?