I have never regretted buying one of these. And this is a good price.

It also points up an earlier comment (somewhere) that there will be no more of them built and so they are shifting the very last of them.

There's an 80-320 on Ebay right now. (sorry about the typo above 320 not 380 !).

That's like trying to get 6 glass marbles in a precise line - well done for such perfection!

Whoopee! These are wonderful. Keep at it!

That first one is a super shot.

The Pentax 80-380 is an excellent lens that I have had many good results from. It appears fairly regularly on E bay and is well worth a look.

Just like in the ToyStory franchise...who knows what goes on when the residents turn in for the night.

That does worry me at times, particularly when 'insanitary' is seen as a derivation of 'insane'!

While most are wondering what this idiot is rabbiting on about, you Steve saw through it and exposed the intended silliness! But you appear to have missed the equally insanitary dishcloth at bottom left
Shouldn't that be UN sanitary? .... or maybe not in the present context.

The Forum has been quite inactive these past few days so I offer this completely OTT composition as a means of getting SOME sort of reaction - good or bad. Needless to say, it is from one of my vintage Meyer Optik 105mm lenses - mounted on a K3ii (for a change).

The 'real' dishbrush is visible as a pale wraith of the subject matter, hiding at the back on the right. It envisions itself as an avatar of Hygea herself, spontaneously effervescent with cleansing bubbles that will shift the most stubborn of baked-on crap, like I am busily writing here ....!




Analysing it a bit more, the positioning of the tripod was critical because this lens is not coated at all and it had to be inside the shadow cast by the kitchen window frame to avoid the catastrophic flare of the sunshine that was making those super bokeh balls. An annoying feature of the location is that the camellia bush producing those highlighted reflections is right in front of a large trellis screen that is quite noticeable once it has been pointed out. BUT it makes a superb visual barrier between the scene as a whole and the (apparent) location of the reflected, real dishbrush that is having the dream.

Finally, I really love the way that the chromed pipe of the kitchen sink tap (bottom right) anchors the whole thing into a sort of reality. At root, the story itself is a total fiction and the colours are (slightly) beyond reality but the wonders of optics nevertheless provide an amazing visual entertainment.