Commercial use cannot be done without a model or property release, see my earlier post.

Wireless triggers will be better and simpler than trailing cables around

Wow sold to dougf8 pending payment

Will pm payment details soon, caught me on the job..

Bought this from the forum a few weeks ago and whilst its very good its not to disimilar to my f50mm 1.4 so I have decided to let it go. Its razor sharp on my k-5.

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£165.00 inc RMSD excludes paypal fees prefer bank transfer or direct bank deposit. Sorry I cannot take paypal gift payments.







Images wide open

Sorry john forgot

Thats not true, its now easier than ever

link thanks to the patents copyright court. Before this was set up i used a copyright lawyer on a no win no fee charging me round 25% of any comoensation, a price worth paying.

Ok in order for your image to become orphaned in the first place it has to have been published somewhere. Now usually the photographer will be aware when and where their images have been published, whether thats professionally, on facebook or flickr etc...

Someone steals that image and publishes it somewhere else and then someone else wants to use it. That someone does a google search, cant find the original owner, uses it and pays into the honesty box set up by the government under the proposed scheme.

What happens now under copyright breach is the copyright owner has to show where that image has been taken from and a large file size i.e the original also a screengrab off flickr, facebook or where ever the image was originally published will have a publication date, thats your evidence.

The problem with the proposed legislation is that the honesty box does not take into consideration e value of an image. Now suppose you licence an image to a company on an exclusive basis for the next ten years. Once that image has been stolen the original licensee is not going to be happy.

The other important note about this is that for commercial use the licencee still needs a model / property release for anyone or property within the image, finding or getting this costs even more for a breach than copyright breach. Google vampire weekend album cover copyright case.

Hi Russ

Not a problem. When I upgraded from the Tamron to the da* first thing I noticed was it didn't hunt as much as the Tamron and there was a significant improvement in image quality with regards to colour and contrast. The k-5 mkii allowed the lens to lock straight in focus. I don't know about the Tamron as I sold it before o got the mkii.

The Tamron for the price is a very good lens, whether the da* is worth the extra £400 only you can decide.

What I will say about the mkii 16-50mm over the mki Tamron combo is that I no longer feel inhibited or limited by the gear and I don't curse it anymore, it allows be to get the images I crave, which the old combo couldn't.

Here's a link to the images from the last simple minds show with the mki

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As I said they are not the best....

I havent dismissed the mki at all, its still a very capable camera. However my subject matter is very demanding and not the norm for other photography subjects.

My hit rate has inreased by a staggeringly high amount with the mkii and da* 16-50 compared to the mki and tamron 17-50. As i said earlier when i shot simple minds last year under the same conditions with the mki and tamron i had an absolute dreadful time with the focussing and i must stress the simple minds shows are reknown for excessive strobing back lighting that most camera brands would struggle with. I came out of that shoot with less than 15 shots that i wouldnt call acceptable by no stretch of the imagination and i didnt even have the opportunity to choose my shots so hard was the shoot with that combination.

i kept my samsung gx20 for nearly 5 years and only sold it a few months before last xmas and was still using it regulalrly with the k-5 mki so little was the difference between them, ok the mki had better iso capabilities and a little faster focus than the gx20 and i loved that gx20 body,however as david said these minor upgrades on the k-5 have lifted the mkii to a totally new level, out of the 500 or so shots i shot during this gig 75% where acceptable the other 25% where due to the lighting changing quickly or misframing. I just cannot achieve that level of success with the mki and I think it shows the improvements ricoh are making to the pentax brand and for the first time since i have been shooting pentax i know my gear has a slight advantage over nikon and canon and i have waited a long time to say that

I dont make a lot of money at the moment from photography due to my full time studies, but what i do make goes back into gear and my next purchase will be another mkii to replace my mki and i make no apologies for that.