Why not try good old fashioned centre weighted? IMO I have never yet come across ANY matrix/segment metering that improves to any great extent on centre weighted.

Hiya,

The 'problem' selling Minolta MC/MD mount gear is that there is now such a small number of users buying items.

The Nikon AI and Pentax K items are still useable directly on DSLR's without adaptors, so they sell well and have many users. The other three main manual focus mounts have far less users:

Olympus OM still sell pretty well, as there are still a fair few OM users. The two mounts which now have least users are Canon FD & Minolta MC/MD. Hence Canon FD and Minolta MC/MD will struggle to gain bidders and when you have far fewer potential bidders, then prices at auction can vary wildly, you may get lucky with two bidders fighting for an item and pushing prices up, but If you do not, then prices are lower, If your listing is good, then the rest is the luck of the drawer....

cheers Steve.

All the price guides are next to useless. They have always been out of date the day they are printed.

Like it or not, we now live in a world where many used items of all sorts have prices dictated by ebay (an auction) and like most auctions the price can vary hugely and there is no reliable way any longer of determining prices for most items.

Look at the completed items section of ebay for the items you have, to see If it is even worth trying to sell the items. Many film items are worth very little and some hold such low values that it is not worth even trying to sell, because the ebay fees and postage will often be higher than the items potential sale price.

If you plan on ebay selling, read my guide I posted:

https://www.pentaxuser.com/forum/topic/how-to-get-max-prices-on-auction-sites---...

Define CSC:

"Yet another attempt by the numpties at AP trying desperatley to be 'different' to all other UK photo mags"

PM replied.

Replied to PM.

"Many digital photographers do over-sharpen their images"

Agree 100%, in fact I think the majority of digital users over-sharpen. There seems to be a massive interest in sharpness and little in other image aspects; is colour fidelity not important? or contrast? or EV range? etc etc.

At the NEC show earlier this year on the RPS stand there was a display of shots from a member showing his ARPS (I believe) panel of the entry...the shots were all horribly over sharpened, they were terrible.

Just be careful you do not get grabbed in the balkans...it can hurt.

If you like Sigma (which I do) then why not the Sigma 18-50/2.8? ....and IMO the WR feature is a marketing ploy and of no real value at all to most photographers. I have soaked lenses in rain for years with no ill effects of any kind.

Bumpy bumpety bump bump..