I thought the same thing and couldn't click on it fast enough

Not an easy thing to do, to achieve perfect focus with that lens, pretty good effort but as Pete says, a little under exposed.

No I won't be bidding, Never had much luck with "lucky Dips" I always end up with the rock

It didn't take long to see one of these pop up on E-bay.

Would this have to be the most inspiring E-bay listing you have ever seen

I thank you all for the very constructive advice, and I am now determined to shoot these again,

I don't believe shooting 200 ISO will give you noise issues.
This was shot at 400iso with on board flash, and I don't see any noise. unless I am missing something ?

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Pete, No I wouldn't say they were better than the K20.

I took these hand held with off camera flash (Metz 58 AF-1) on a bracket, i'm just wondering if the new Lumiquest softbox I used for the first time may have something to with the lack of crispness. I know from experience that some diffusers (especially with macro) can give a misty appearence in your shots. I'll do a comparison with my Stofen diffuser.

I need to experiment a little more before giving the camera the thumbs down. cheers

hmmm I have to agree I guess, looking back on them, Focus could have been better on a few of them.

I wouldn't blame the camera just yet though, its probably me more than anything.

When you say they are not up too scratch, are we talking about the rendering, composition, subject matter, Please elaborate

Thanks for the comments

I haven't tried any high ISO shots as yet and i'm shooting in jpeg as well,

I'm quite happy with everything at the moment and still working through all the kinks, just need to find some time and some good weather

All the shots were taken with the same settings roughly,

1 and 3 were cropped a bit more than the others and I suspect it was my sharpening efforts that are to blame was a little rushed

These are the unprocessed versions

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Finaly got out outside today with the K-7 and my D-FA 100mm macro
All taken at f11/13 200iso minimal processing

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Nice shot, when I first read it, I thought it said portrait of George Sorry George, couldn't resist