I have commented on Jessops in the past and even wrote a letter (which they published) to Amateur Photographer. One involved the Tamron 70-300 which, when sold with a K10D was £100, on its own was £200! So I went to SRS and got it for £90!

I still shop from Jessops, but not for anything Pentax. I think John is right, it is partly dictated by their current hard times. They have server me well in the past when it came to Pentax though.

I was using it yesterday with my FA50mm 1.4 at 1.4 and I did manage to get some shots in focus. It did make a difference, though I still need practice to get my manual focus back to what it was in my Program A days!

The rest of the time, it did not have any affect on what I was doing. Mine is set to stay on the camera. The only issue I had was on a wet day when it fogged up, something I had not noticed with the normal viewfinder, and of course I had to remove it to dry under the housing and to make sure that there was still no water behind the rubber of the cup.

For me I think it would be the lens first as we all know that the true image quality comes from that. Where my camera lacks, I can generally make up for in Paint Shop and by careful use of HDR. Once I have the Glass I will then upgrade. Unless my camera was to fail

Still cheaper than the competition and likely to be better! Definitly value for money! Let's face it * lenses are supposed to be 'Pro'!
Now, where did I put that piggy bank....

What do you think of this? Taken at 300mm with the Tamron 70-300 and a Metz 58. It is slightly cropped to remove clutter and I have cloned out a couple of leaves and an anoying apple above the robin's head.

Typing errors can't be edited! This is what is should have said (sorry):

Would it be possible to mark entrants as commended, highly commended, 2nd and 3rd on the Gallary page rather than just in the comments provided by the judge? That way I can skip to the pictures that the guest judge rated top and see why these hit the spot for the judge.

What I mean is an easy way from the main gallary screen for the competition to not only identify who won (as is currently presented) but to also see who came 2nd, 3rd etc. This might be achieved by a colour border on the images or a sub-note nder the pictures.

Hope this makes my comment clearer.

I have been following this thread with some interest as I do like the competition format. I had high hopes for the new format and still do. However, I have not been entering recently. This is for one of two reasons: 1) When I have I have found the competition closed, somewhat anoying when I have just spent an hour playing with cuvres to get the look I want! 2) the subjects have been a little narrow for me and where I have a photo that fits it is not good enough.

I enter competitions as I want to improve and seeing how others interpret the brief is good, also the comments are key.

I will be entering this competion and ensuring I get in early to ensure that the comp has not closed!

Would it be possible to entrants as commended, highly commended, 2nd and 3rd on the Gallary rather than just the comment. That way I can skip to the pictures that the guest judge rated top and see why these hit the spot for the judge.

This is the O-ME53 Pentax one. I will let you know how it hold up in use. Seemed good in initial test, still needs a field test and that won't happen till the weekend.

The cup is surrounded with rubber and the Dioptor adjustment still works. Though I don't wear glasses yet I do sometimes use the camera with sunglases and I don't thing the new eye cup will have any detrimental effect.

Don't forget that you will need a 2GB or less card to put it on so that you can install it on the DS!