Have you seen the Lens-roadmap off 2008?
There is a DA*30 on it, just don't ask when or if it will come though
With the new roadmap they are gone but I remember them saying they should be on it again when the new camera's are launched, in the mean time we had 4 now, K-M, K-X, K-7 and the 645D.

You can click on it for a better read

I'm actually thinking on what I've diagrams off on my PC.
A lot are from the Boeing 747 manual, I wont start to count that one.
For photography I only have a diagram with studio lighting flash set-ups, for the rest nothing.

Already had asked that one for you Peter.

I think the problem might be how the P-TTL fights not to burn the highlights but you still have the flash in your frame/photo. I think that might be the problem.

The DFA100 also wobbles a lot
The DA*16-50 is surprisingly stable for his design, so was the DA 18-250.

Not very helping but well it's not a DA16-45 thing alone at least.

Congratulations Paul, you got promoted

Since I don't have any sunset shots or swan shots, does that mean I'm original?

Mike I was saying that things now are unfair and I stated the reasons why and two option to make it fairer. And in the same comment I said things must just stay the same since it's all just for fun.

Thank you for the explanation John.

In your case it would indeed be unfair but that's because how the Judge acted and not the act of resubmitting. I mean even Doug re-submit 10 minutes later in the last comp because he had a better version of his photo processed in Gimp, that's the sort of thing I mean. I don't see why that can be unfair?
The chaos is only temporary because when the competition close everything is final.
And it's only a chaos for someone if they don't know what's going on.

About the magazine comp, that's so different then the ones we do for fun here on the forum. If we start to compare that then a lot more need to be changed here and nobody would want that.

the DA35 would need be so interesting because you already have a 50mm macro lens, have you already looked at the Sigma 30mm f/1.4?
I think the f/1.4 would be more interesting for you then the macro.

Of course the Tamron 17-50 is always handy.

Why would B&W mean something old?

I mean does these look old? link
Another question would be; would they look good in colour?

Try it with centre weighted or spot metering, with multi-segment it can change metering per shot, at least that would increase the consistency of the flash power a bit.

I also think the flashgun in the photo is a problem, could you maybe make a photo of a subject with the flash to the side and not in the frame?

If you want to know if it's a sync problem or not simply set the flash to manual and see what it does then.