You're absolutely right, Lena.

Thanks to the quirky titles of the articles, it's impossible to find anything on the Luminous Landscape unless you do a search.

Here's the article you were quoting:

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/columns/sm-02-05-02.shtml

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Hey, Lena, tell us more.

We're suckers for sentiment on here.

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It only counts if you spell it correctly!

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Ammonyte, it's been mentioned countless numbers of times, but there are always new visitors who haven't heard of it, so no problem mentioning it again.

Also, of course:

http://stans-photography.info/

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Actually it's 27 - 450 in DSLR terms. Although the DA lens is designed for digital, the focal length is the focal length, and you still have to multiply it by 1.5, just like the others.

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The F 135mm has now gone, too. It was massively under-priced. Translation: I paid a lot more for mine.

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I notice that Ffordes have some good lenses at the moment at reasonable prices.

F 1:2.8 135mm £75.00 (An excellent little lens - equal to 200m on DSLR)
F 1:1.4 50mm £89.00 (No intro required)
Sigma 1:5.6 400mm £99.00 (Don't know how good, but it's AF and not expensive)
Tokina 1:2.8 28-80 £239.00 (Not cheap, but zooms at this aperture are always very pricey. The Pentax equivalent goes for around £1,000 on Ebay).

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We're so spoiled by Stan's site. What's needed is a non-Pentax K-mount lens site, to give credit to those third-party lenses which merit recognition.

I'm not saying this one does, incidentally. I know nothing about it, though I would perhaps prefer a "made in Japan" Jena lens to a "made-in-Jena" one.

Jena, Philip, in case you don't know, was the main Zeiss factory before WW2. After the war, the Americans took most of the staff to W Germany, leaving the Russians with the bare factory. Any post-war CZ Jena lens made prior to the fall of the wall is therefore effectively Russian. Often good value, but, as John says, often crude construction too.

There was a fascinating thread on this a few months ago.

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Thanks for the explanation, Liam. I'd never taken on board what BB was before.

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I've cracked it now. Isn't it irritating when life is simpler than you thought it was?

Though I still don't know what was wrong with my code.

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