George Lazarette, and unusual man?
Yes

The expectation comes from my trip to NYC. The city felt underwhelming, maybe the expectation was to large.
NYC is fascinating, beautifull, impressive, full of wonder and possibilities, but for me doesn't feel like a nice place to live.
I thought London might be the same. But London did feel like a nicer place to live.

I think I'm more of a provincial kind of person.
Cities with smaller dimensions are easier to accomodate in your mind. hard to explain...
Big cities are great for the awesome loads of stuff you can do, but in practice, you work all day and enjoy a residual amount of the cities social and cultural life. Again, its a personality thing.

There is no good place to be without any money.

The trip was ok, just a pitty we didn't do more stuff.
I was going to do the boat tour from Waterloo Pier, but the driver sais it would be faster to do the voyage back by boat rather than bus. So since we had already spent so much time to even get there, we stayed on. It took forever to get to the Tower (passing through protesting students on the southbank), where we found there were no boat trips for 2 hrs because of the tide. It was getting dark pretty quickly, so we went to westminster for a walking tour of the area around Big Ben. Of course we had to get of the tube and walk and then find the whole area closed by police.
At night we were going to the Camden Pub Crawl, which took a while to find because ppl didn't know what I was talking about and gave me bad directions.
It wasn't much of a pub crawl, just a lets get wasted night out, which is fine, but not really what I expected. Then the girls were tired and we had to go home foregoing 3 of the 5 shots included in the £10 ticket. Bummer.
Anyway, last day. Boat trip, a few more decent shots from Big Ben and Parliament and onto Buckingham and the changing of the guard. Which didn't happen Even thought the guy from the bus had assured me that it would be on Friday and not Thursday as per the palace website.

But still, I enjoyed it because London was not disapointing as I imagined it might be. Sure, its not as beautifull as Edinburgh, but its a big city that doesn't feel as harsh as I thought it might.

So the trip is over.
I over reached in my expectactions of what we would be able to see... Again. Overall it was nice and we had fairly good weather.
Bad luck with the student protests and fellow travellers too tired or cold to walk.
Cops were nice, even those doing security around Westminster, so that was cool.

Yeah

Maybe I haven't been paying much atention, but I rarely see anyone here tooting his own horn about how good he his. Despite the fact there are plenty here who clearly have some fine skills.

I usually see those types, in the pro or business sections, trying to show off.

This site is considerably lower traffic than say PentaxForums and Talkphotography or DPReview (to name a phew I often consult). But refreshingly, no one here is dazzled by or is inclined to panper newbies.
People here are informative, and seem to speak their mind more often than average (some with sharper tongues than others :wink. This, I believe, encourages a healthier view of one's photography.

This is a good medium telephoto for portraits and headshots. Its a fast prime with F2.5 max. aperture
This is not the Pentax K series prime, it is an economic version of that, ioptically different and not SMC.


IMGP3284 by eduardodourado, on Flickr


IMGP3283 by eduardodourado, on Flickr
The lens body is in very good condition, with minimal paint loss due to rubbing and 1 small scratch at the very rim of the hood. Excellent for its age.



IMGP3285 by eduardodourado, on Flickr
The front glass is in excellent condition, with no coating loss or scratches. The back glass, however is scratched. See the photo. They are evident but a small number.


IMGP3287 by eduardodourado, on Flickr
As far as I can, the lens results are as expected, so I doubt they are affecting it. Just like my CZJ 135mm F3.5 is scratched and still gives awesome results.
There as some small dust specks inside, but nothing major. No sign of fungus.

The lens comes with an original back cap, but no front cap. It comes in a case.


IMGP3282 by eduardodourado, on Flickr

Examples from this lens, both at F2.5:


IMGP2797-2 by eduardodourado, on Flickr


IMGP2794-3 by eduardodourado, on Flickr

Total shipped to UK is £32.
The shipping prices are for regular mail. For registered or urgent mail, ask for a quote.

I thought the same about the 1st.

Price now £95 shipped.

Did it make brrrrrreaking news?

She diservingly got the cold shoulder from the police. Which is good, because the case was cold, so they'd never find the thief.