Don't forget the cashback as well
For £20 that WR kit lens is a steal, I believe.

They still have the old price up on the website
I wondered how much the double kit would be.

And here is the new one
link

- Guilty of the first point as well

- About the JPG VS RAW, that has been discus many times and it really depends on what your needs are to be honest.
I shoot RAW because you can pull more quality out of them then with shooting in JPG and I think the light/dark-room part of photography is just as important as taking the photo itself.

- Using a CRT here
Blaming viewing angle is stupid I believe, you are sitting directly in-front of your screen right?
I believe that black levels and the colour gamut or more important reasons not to use a TFT although they are getting better, they are even very good now I believe.

On the other forum someone said he paid $2.700,00 1.5 years a go so you should be getting at least that for it and probably getting close to the $3.000,00 since the recent price raise, if I should make a guess.

The lens is pretty rare so you should be able to ask a bit more then standard I believe, so the 3.250,00 the other guy is asking is reasonable but high.

Don't know how Ebay works but if you could put it up like he did (buy it now) and then wait till spring if it hasn't sold you can make it in an actuation.
Since he is also the only guy around you and him can make the standard price a bit high.
So if you make it the same price or slightly beneath it that would be the standard price so if people look they will regard it as normal.
So when you put it into an actuation people might be willing to go further.

Don't know if that's cheating or not?

Mike this a pseudo HDR right?
It's the tone mapping that kills it most of the time.

I quite like your shot, the muted colours are of this season.
Would like to have seen the pond(?) a bit sharper.

Interesting to see how centring the arch works great in your photo.

There is one buy it now on ebay link
If you had not found it already.
When looking on Pentaxforums.com that price seem to be it these days, of course it's depending on how badly someone wants it and don't know if it's the right month for the lens to sell it to be honest.
You might get more around spring when people go outside again to shoot.

ps. simply thinking out loud here and I might be very wrong though.

Cokin Z-pro here because I got a good deal on them.

Besides that I use a polariser 90% of the time.

Don't shoot many landscapes though

Graham, sad to hear that the fog was to wet so to say, bt it wasn't that bad that I hear from Aiki.
Better luck next time since it looks like a nice hike.

Anyone had a lot of problems with the rain?

That's interesting Sandy, hopefully it comes together nicely.

Yes it is, Vic.
Looks like a great mag but ended up buying silvershotz instead since it is a more general mag.

this B&W site I believe. http://www.bandwmag.com/
Silvershotz. http://www.silvershotz.com/

ps. For the ones doing B&W there is a good article about digital toning and colouring (think sepia & selenium) in volume 6 edition 2 of silvershotz.

Lance I've heard that the DA*35 would have the same lens formula as the DA*55, so if that lens might please you as well if it comes out.

Too bad no f-number was named though, for the lens.