Get yourself one of these, its an olympus eyecup and works a treat for keeping your nose off the LCD screen. It also covers the eye better than the Pentax eyecup.
It has a glass in it but not magnified.
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The O-ME53 pentax version has a magnification of 1.2 and works well also but doesn't protrude as far as the olympus. I have both.

Excellent shot Don, They are very difficult to find in the wild, you are very lucky.

I must ask though, what French island did you find him on : I was on a few French islands over the past couple of weeks and never knew Koala's populated any of them.

They say they do support P-TTL but I have never used one to comfim it

They are ridiculously expensive, but you can get a cheaper alternative off e-bay for around 15quid, which has the on and off camera adapters + cord as one complete unit. I can't find one listed at the moment but they do come up regularly

Or you can get lucky like I did, when I purchased an AF330FTZ with off camera bracket and got a box of those adapters and cords, 10 adapters with 4 short cords and 2 long ones. All for $80(£35)I kept the ones I wanted and gave the rest away.

I paid AU$540 (£220approx)used for mine, with warranty. So his asking price is not that cheap. But he should be definitive about his asking price and not switch to an auction when it suits him.

I'm one of them I can walk to the letterbox and back, no problem

Seriously though, the 50-135 can be a pain if you are carrying it for any length of time. I find you need the grip attached to balance it when its hanging around your neck and that adds further to the weight.
But I would never sell it for that reason.

I guess i'm just a weakling with girly arms.

The 50-135 is a cracker but I wouldn't consider it a walk around lens A bit too long with the hood attached and heavy also.

The 55-300 or an 18-250 would be my preference. I really want a 60-250 but it also would be heavy and a bit over your percieved budget i'm afraid. cheers

Sorry guys didn't mean to rub in the warm weather But it was quite hot on some days. Great for snorkling and swimming.
Took a stack of pics, just used 3 lenses all trip, DA 21mm, FA 77mm and DA 16-50mm I did take my DA 50-135mm but never took it out of the bag.

Didn't have any kids or islanders for that matter hitting me up for money, and I got quite a few shots of them.
There were a few of them selling fresh coconuts which I took advantage of, quite refreshing in the heat.

Thanks Hefty, The kids jumping in the water were some of my fav shots, I got some shots of them swinging from ropes and jumping into a lagoon, but haven't got to them yet

BTW I'm a little disappointed in how my pics look here They appear a little soft) but they were quite sharp before resizing and uploading too Photobucket.
I looked for a setting in PB but can't find anything. Am I doing something wrong : Cheers

I will post some more when I get the chance.

Had a wonderful 2 week holiday cruising the South Pacific, great weather and beautiful islands

The first 2 shots were taken from a very small island called Dravuni Island, in the Fijian achipelago. It has a a population of just 200 people, very friendly and fantastic snorkling and diving.

Thats our cruise ship
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The ships Tender which took us ashore
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These were taken in Port Vila Vanuatu
Kids swimming in the Harbour
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hmmm I would have thought the MZ5N would work with DA lenses. Thats changed my thinking somewhat.

Thanks impotentspider but I will need to do a little more research on this before I proceed. I have seen a couple of MZ 7's listed at considerably less than your offer.

Let me look into it and I will get back to you. thanks

I will be away as of tomorrow for a couple of weeks. cheers

And this was listed this morning. link