I was asking myself the other day whether it would be right to use an AI to enhance one's imagery? Whose final result would we be viewing? The current crop, at root, are simply complicated series of IF - THEN decisions with no sort of 'intelligence' being involved. Their crowning output can often be viewed on the front covers of glossy magazines where their immaculate images seem to be just somehow not quite right. Denoised to squeekie cleanliness and sharpened to within the width of a bent pixel they have no notion of artistic presentation whatsoever. The time to worry will be when that notion does start to appear.

You started something here Spad - but not quite what you wanted .

1st and 3rd. -- Like I often say to myself, "there is always something to point a camera at". These were well worth the trouble.

The vibrancy of the green in #3 is something again.

Think of it like putting your lens right up to a chain link fence to snap some animal at the zoo. You don't see the fence on the photo. The scratch on your lens is about as close as you will get to a virtual chain link fence. You won't see it.

Hey Steve, that makes two of us. How'd you enjoy the bowel prep? The NHS put on a faultless performance throughout. I have nothing but praise for them.

And that's only a little scratch

It shouldn't have much effect on IQ at all. I had an A series 35 -105 that had an almighty collection of deep scratches on the front. It took super pictures. All you can do is try it and consider whether you have value for money. As to returning it, it's one thing to say it is well used but an outright scratch should have been pointed out.

One thing I love about macro is that it can show you how nature does various things - in this case using an iris type mechanism to open the capsule.
Photographing that was a masterwork.

These are really nice.

I like the first one better.