Shot Latitude Festival in Suffolk at the weekend, did some music but concentrated on the comedy tent for something a little different.

Bumped into Andy Hollingworth who is a reknown photographer of comedians, well worth checking out his portrait work. Anyhow he inspired me to take some portaits backstage. Most of these where set up and done within 25 seconds from meeting, greeting, asking to photo and then shooting. As you can see through the day I think I improved and managed to direct the sitters a little.



































more shots from Latitude Festival on my flickr stream..

I don't see how a bigma or 170-500 is going to help shooting football though.

I would suggest one of the 70-200mm 2.8 lenses which gives you speed for the football and then a converter for the wildlife giving you a 400 5.6 for the wild life which I think will still be faster than the bigmas 6.3 aperture st the long end.

the 150-500mm may be to slow. 300mm f/4 is perfect though... not as good as a 2.8 but acceptable.

samsung gx20

Complete with unused kit lens and all accessories unused, boxes etc spare batteries £220

Genuine Samsung grip no box £75

Need another k-5 so has to go.

Shutter count to follow, this will be high hence the low price, but everything is spot on having been serviced by Asahi photo late last year.

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Photos to follow...

I would get a k-R.

With the launch of the k-30 the k-x is now third generation. The k-R was such a significant jump in technology from the k-x. The k-R is just so much responsive and faster than the k-x in general use..

Yes Nicola benedetti

K-5 is going to cost £65 to repair according to asahi photo, I would send it in under warranty but time is of the essence and it will cost me more to hire a replacement than to pay Asahi photo

Quiet a few of these where taken with the GX20 and the Tokina 100-300mm f/4 which I am beginning to really like and get to grips with MF again

Beautiful isn't she smeggy, great music to..

The hands in teh air shot is my favourite of the weekend. This was dueing the Stone Roses headline set. The crowd had let of around four or five red flares and it just looked incredible, unfortunately I didnt have any steps with me as the ground was just too soft, otherwise it would have been even more epic!!!

Well having killed my k-5 here are the shots from the weekend...

















































As always more on my flickr stream...

What's interesting was my gx20 had for the most of the weekend the tokina 100-300mm attached which most definitely is not sealed, yet suffered no issues what so ever.

I can still use the camera through the grip as I have three weekends of work lined up sending in for repair and renting is just not feasible so will soldier on for the time being...

Re the shutter button.

First it stopped focussing on half depress for half the day, so I used the af button instead, but gradually the shutter button responded less and less until it would do nothin. I don't think this is water related and is just a failed component.