great subject, I love number 3

Thanks Jules, i did a search before posting and nothing came up .

Not sure if its available in Pentax mount, possibly not given their recent announcements, but even so looks juicy..

http://www.ephotozine.com/article/tamron-sp-150-600mm-ultra-telephoto-zoom-lens-...

I don't think its a legal issue, more an education issue. People really need to think about backup of media on local devices as well as online.

Just this week alone three people I know have lost their phones with precious photos on and did not back up any of them. When I explain to people about backing up digital media they say this is not the time to discuss digital backup. So when is the time?

I lost some of my archive a couple of years ago and all I had left where some lo res images stored on the net since 2002 so where no more than 400 pixels wide, disaster but at least I could still look at them. I now back up locally, on skydive and flickr, my data on flickr is mirrored on three accounts and my family have the passwords for them all in case anything happens.

Tend to find in a recession luxury goods increase in price as demand falls.

Whilst the iq on the tamron exceeds its price that's its only advantage.

The build quality, focus speed and image quality are all better on the Pentax. The only disadvantage if the Pentax is the weight and the length when fully zoomed.

i live mine and the images on my Pentax are far superior to my old tamron images.

Does anyone know a lens repairer who repairs adapt all lenses. Something has broken on my 400mm and the aperture blades are not stepping down so its stuck wide open at f/4

Thing with these competitions is you never get to see how many people entered or what the standard is. I've registered for entry next year. Nothing ventured nothing gained...

thanks

And this was the shot before the first image so maybe the seal leaned forward a little..