Do you mean recap or nightcap?

Paper Wasp?

Doesn't look like he eats paper to me

K3?

Splashing the cash I see Barrie

When you going to organise a meet?

Oh she is a beauty Steve, nice captures.

I'll agree with everyone

There's a time and place for the use of protective filters but for everyday use they should be left off, as far as dirt goes it doesn't stick to lenses like the DA*s with the special coating, had my 16-50 and 50-135 for probably 4-5 years and never had to give them a "proper" clean, even the odd fingermarks seem to disappear with the light wipe of a lens cloth.

Oh Sorry, forgot to say:

Hello it's me, just popping in to say hello

You still have a bottle from last year

All my bottle were finished by February, I had to replace them several times.

I've done a few weddings, I suppose that makes me a pro

But I'd never dream of charging for one or muscle a pro out of a shoot.
All mine have been for close family who know I'm not a pro and are just happy to have some good quality snaps from someone who knows how to use a camera, I was asked a few month back if I wanted to shoot "a friend of a friend of a friends wedding" (and be paid) I said I would love to have done it....but I was busy that day

I do feel for wedding togs though, the digital age has made every tom dick and harry with a DSLR a budding wedding photographer, I went to a friends wedding several years back and one of the bridesmaids was doing the photography using a Canon 350D with a kit lens and the most unstable tripod I have ever seen. I got an email a couple of weeks later asking if I'd taken any good pics myself

Focusing on the chart looks OK to me, nothing that I'd be complaining about.

As for the Bullfinch, After looking at the Exif Data all I can say is under those conditions I'd have packed up and gone home, 1/80th wide open

10/10 for trying

So putting the flat lighting aside for a mo'
The K10D has SR built in and the camera was on a bean bag so maybe you could have got away with that shutter speed, but the thing to remember is these little critters are constantly twitching and they do it a lot quicker than you think, I wouldn't try shooting small birds with anything less than 1/125 unless it was nailed to the perch and stuffed

Get out on a day with good light and try and aim for 1/125, even better if you can manage to stop down to f8 as well, the Bigma and K10D combo is quite capable of stunning birds shots so keep trying and good luck.

Have a look at the Blue Tit in my portfolio, ISO200 1/200th f6.7 with the Bigma at 420mm on the K10D (and the shot has been cropped too)

Aha!

So you finally discover for yourself why Pentax Users have put up for years with slow focus, limited range of lenses, and all the other tripe that reviewers churn out.