Primes will improve your photography skills by making you walk around and seek the best vantage point for the snap, zooms make you lazy and you stand in one or two spots to grab the shot.
Unless you want to sell your images commercially there is little advantage in the better quality that primes offer.

Me? I'm lazy and use zooms all the time, though I recently aquired DA* lenses

Edit TYPO!

Yeah! preferably at the end of the day then we get all the "I brought it and didn't use it stuff"

Seriously though, this is a good idea, if you've got it, bring it, even if only to leave in the boot of the car you may come across someone who's interested, it will cost you nothing but the time to pack it.

Looks sharper than my Bigma:

But my Pheasant is better than yours unfortunately your Goldfinch is a cracker.


PS: your tits look oversharp

I feel such an idiot

After uploading pics to the PC the first thing I usually do is run through them with windows slideshow, make a note of the unsalvageable ones and delete them!

WRONG!!!!

I have just discovered that the windows slideshow does not (for some reason) display the images (jpegs) straight from the camera as sharp as they actually are, yet anything that has been tinkered with in Photoshop and saved to a maximum quality jpeg displays OK, I feel I may have been deleting images unnecessarilly.

Has anyone else experienced this or is it just me?

Looking through those images Bev I think you could teach a few of us a thing or two, if you manage the meet I'm sure one of us will let you play with the K20D for a bit, as long as you point out the good shots in Sherwood that is

Poor old Post Office we all know that its digital and inkjet printers thats putting the labs out of business, why blame the PO?

Jason, why not have a go at developing your own? E6 developing is pretty straight forward (as long as you follow the instructions) all you need is a changing bag and a lightproof developing tank plus a few measuring containers, the biggest headache I found was washing the film at preset temperatures, but this is no problem if you have a thermostatic shower. just detach the shower head and shove the hose into the dev. tank

Of course you'll need a duff roll of film to practice loading the film onto the dev. tank reel before you attempt it in the changing bag with a good roll

No problemo

Sorry, I cant snap your communicating neurons today.....my pixel has stuck

As long as its available in black

I would go for the Oly Huw

If you buy you daughter a Km you might just discover your lenses dissapearing one by one

As for the plastic mount on the kit lens, personally I cant see a problem, kit lenses rarely hold their price so its not like its going to be worth anything when your daughter finally decides to upgrade to lenses of her choice, and plastic mount or not it should still function perfectly until that time.

GOBSMACKED