I have the Tamron 17-50 2.8 and it's an awesome bit of glass and brutally sharp...
However... I'd be tempted to go down the prime route and a 21mm ltd too!

I guess your Missus needs to decide what she wants...

Form what the OP said in his 1st couple of posts I'm really suprised that hardly anyone has pointed to the DA-35mm 2.8 Ltd macro'...

I've tried to avoid tele-converters so I'm not much help...

But I gotta ask... Why bother when you have the Sigma 50-500?

+1 on that...

If you ask they'll probably exchange it for one of the nicer looking black ones (that work)...

I just hope whoever bought it uses it... Bidding against folk just to sell it on for a profit would be a real sh*ty thing to do...

If that is the case then I hope it is a scam and Mr Shapps sends them some 3rd party 'M' lens...

I'll keep up my weekly search...

She said... "k-r with an old manual Makinon zoom 1:3.5 f=80-200mm camera set at fd 85 and aperture was 5.6"... in an earlier post...

So you're correct... I don't think any editing software out there would recognise that lens...

Great shot though Charlotte... Perservere with post-processing... It does quite often become as much fun as the picture taking itself...

I pretty much only use Picasa (free google software) these days... I have a copy of lightroom and love the simple yet powerful editing it has... But I hate the way it controls workflow... Picasa is a happy medium for me...

My in pocket (glovebox actually) is an old fuji F11... It has no manual controls and takes a cracking picture

(pictures from the fuji-F11 camera have mysteriosly improved since I started using the K-x...Wierd...)

Have you got the latest Firmware?

+10 on the eneloops... I now have 8 sets on a revolving charge (3 sets for the K-x and 5 sets for my 3 flashguns)