Apologies I was not there but at least I'm not spoiling your shot . I do though hope to be there on 17th July as part of the Alton Bus Rally.

Glyn

Many thanks for a great subject, good reviews and excellent, although I guess very difficult, judging. It was also brilliant to see the results come in so quickly.

Congratulations to geordie01 for a fantastic wining image and everyone else for an excellent set of broad interpretations.

Hopefully for the next subject I will not have to get up so early .

Glyn

I'm on my third sample of the DA*16-50.

No.1 was effectively DOA with sticky SDM.
I broke no.2
No.3 has had its SDM motor replaced under warranty when it about 11 months old.

A working example is undoubtedly an excellent lens and I love it but I don't think I would ever want to buy one 2nd hand. For me it would have to be new from a Pentax Pro dealer to get the extra confidence of a two year warranty.

Rumours are that later ones, from around about a year ago have a more powerful SDM motor but I don't know how you tell other than buying a new one that has not been sitting on a shelf for too long.

Glyn

Along the Wire at Dawn

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Looking along the fence of the danger zone on the Ash ranges at dawn.

Pentax K-5 and DA*16-50 @ 26mm
1/40sec, F7.1 and ISO 200
Shot at 05.03am, today, 14/06/11 (The things I do for these competitions )

Glyn

They are also quite big & heavy which is why the DA50 F1.7 gets on my list. (Bought 2nd hand for £60 in 2005, one of my best buys )

Glyn

Samsung equivalent of the DFA100 Macro (My most used lens!)
Pentax DA*16-50 (The default lens for my main body)
Pentax DA55-300
Sigma 17-70 HSM OS (Because it lives on the spare body I take out on my bike ).
Pentax FA50 F1.7 (My default low light and compact lens) which I also find great for steam engines.)


Having the DA*16-50 as the default lens on my main body dates back to when I had an early version with very poor SDM performance. I was so fed up with it that I knew if I left it off for any length of time it would never be used again. Fortunately it got replaced, twice, and the current one, although once sent for repair is much better and happily gets used quite a lot.

Glyn

Thanks guys.

While Hipperty enjoys the credit he is rather preoccupied at the moment with his carrot crop. His typing and spelling is also even far worse than mine .

Glyn

Another Update:

Weekly

1. The Number Six
2. Play
3. Heat
4. Flight
5. Self Portrait
6. Wood
7. Age
8. Reflection
9. Water
10. People Communication
11. Solitude
12. Hard and Soft
13. The Industrial Landscape
14. Motion
15. Favourite Places
16. Patterns
17. The Mark of Man
18. Shadows
19. The Monochrome Landscape
20. My Day
21. 'Something' on toast
22. Red
23. Light
24. Recycled
25. Christmas
26. Buildings
27. An abstract, subject matter: any plant in MONO
28. Watching the watchers
29. Paper Scissors Stone
30. One of My Best Photos
31. The Eyes Have It
32. Love is...
33. My Town
34. Street Furniture
35. Sky's the Limit
36. Spring
37. Movement
38. Long Exposure
39. Wildlife
40. Upside-down
41. Natural Light
42. Our House
43. Local Shop & Keeper
44. Rain
45. Blue
46. Public Transport
47. Sea and Shore
48. Tools of the Trade
49. Decay & Dereliction
50. On Ice
51. The Street
52. The Ugly
53. The Pleasure of Summer Holiday
54. Sleep
55. The World Today
56. My Home Town
57. Proverbs
58. Sweet Tooth
59. Contrast
60. Alone
61. Bridge(s)
62. A Touch of Red
63. Cute
64. Mysterious
65. Desktop Backdrop
66. Colour of Autumn
67. Evening
68. Children's Expressions
69. Architecture
70. Transport
71. Music
72. Contre Jour
73. Glass
74. Brewing up a Storm
75. Boots and Shoes
76. Still life in black & white
77. Feelings & Emotions
78. New Year's Eve
79. One Hundred Yards from Home
80. Nearness
81. Flower Power!
82. Bicycles
83. For Sale
84. A Face
85. Italy
86. An Instrument of Time
87. This Modern World
88. Reflections!
89. Abstract
90. Heavy
91. Made of Steel
92. Long Exposure
93. Vegetables
94. Woods and Forests
95. Orange
96. Used
97. Smooth
98. Protection
99. People at Work
100. Self Portrait
101. The Inconvenient Truth
102. Celebration!
103. Something Green...
104. Craftsmanship
105. Spots "n" Dots
106. Action
107. Dream
108. Smoke
109. Something bright or sparkling
110. Moment
111. Serenity
112. Hurry
113. Texture
114. Distance
115. Yun
116. Shadows
117. Street Photography
118. Its a funny old world
119. Quirky Small Buildings
120. Reading and Writing
121. Windows
122. Crystal
123. Freedom
124. Fog/Mist
125. Brickwork
126. Favourite Food
127. History
128. Weightlessness
129. Festivities!
130. Cubes, Squares, Oblongs
131. Companions
132. Steam
133. Street Portraits
134. Size Contrast
135. Culture
136. Suffering
137. Wood
138. Generations
139. The hand of man
140. A trick of the eye – perspective compression
141. The Four Seasons
142. Macro Mystery...Lets Get Close!!
143. Curved Surface
144. Ground level
145. Retro!
146. Evolution
147. Late
148. Catchlights.
149. Water of Life
150. Life in Motion
151. Optical Illusion
152. Duotone
153. Communications
154. Portray the crowd
155. Sunglasses!
156. Low-key
157. People in the Environment
158. Glamour
159. Summer
160. ND 1.8 – ND 3.0
161. Garden Safari
162. Rain
163. Dawn and Dusk
164. Painted shop front window
165. Depth of Field
166. It’s What’s on the Inside That Counts.
167. Adults at Work or Play
168. Public art
169. Stimulating the senses
170. Iconic Objects
171. A Crop can make the Difference
172. Halloween
173. Lines
174. Song Titles
175. A Treasure
176. Object Trouve
177. The Culinary (Competition)
178. The Beatles Songbook
179. ‘Adversity’
180. Low Key
181. Industrial
182. Love
183. Public Sculpture
184. Curves
185. Children at work or play.
186. Black and White Landscapes
187. Long Exposure
188. Isolation
189. Bridges
190. Surreal Competition
191. This is Me
192. Water Every Where!
193. Numbers
194. Nature breaks it’s path
195. JAPAN!!!
196. Breaking “The Rules”
197. Fungi
198. Flowers In A Natural Setting
199. No Sky
200. Age
201. Man-made
202. Sell, sell, sell!!!
203. Holiday
204. Animal Emotion




Fortnightly Competitions

1. Vistas
2. Product Shot
3. Lunch Break
4. Something Wooden
5. Christmas
6. A Night Shot
7. Scales
8. Frozen water
9. Doors
10. Everyday Object, from a Weird, Unusual, Puzzling Perspective
11. Something Wide
12. Your Best Shot Ever
13. Reflections
14. Night
15. Fruit
16. Art in the Community
17. Hands
18. Movement
19. "The Sun"
20. Relaxation or Relaxed
21. Shadows
22. My Roots, My Place
23. The Ground
24. Menace & Foreboding
25. A bad day at the office !
26. Half and half
27. ‘The White Shirt’
28. Bonfire Night
29. Cars
30. Curves
31. Juxtaposition
32. Your Weather
33. Stairs
34. Long Exposure
35. “Design Icon”
36. People
37. Hobbies
38. Genus Loci
39. Order and Disorder
40. Industrial Landscape
41. Childhood Memories
42. Local Flora
43. Faces
44. Food!!
46. Health
47. B&W Portraits
48. Wire, string, rope
49. Science Fiction
50. One Colour
51. Industry
52. Classical Music
53. Sunset
54. Energy
55. Time Piece
56. Abstract impressionism
57. Mono/Chrome
58. Space
59. Snow & Cold
60. Spatial
61. Silhouette
62. Eggs
63. Subject Noir (Black)
64. Plastic
65. Through a Door
66. Spring is Sprung
67. The Sacred
68. An Image That Looks Good From a Distance
69. Blur
70. Leading Lines


Updated until 13-06-11.

Glyn

I'm also not actually sure it is a login issue.

While I seem to stay logged on for weeks on end I find that if I just close the browser with unread messages when I restart the browser and come back to PU those messages are all marked as read.

It is quite annoying if you don't have time to read all the new messages but just want check something quickly to later have to hunt out unread messages that have become marked as read. I certainly have missed parts of important threads because of this.

This issue does not seem to happen on the other forums I subscribe to.

Glyn

(using the Firefox browser)

If it is then it is not obvious as I can't see anything that looks like this in the K-7 debug menu and I will not risk risk tinkering in there without knowing exactly what everything does .

The usual web searches only revel people complaining about the issue and nothing about how to fix it other than sending the camera in for repair.

This is why I think it might be a mechanical adjustment. I did see somewhere on the web parts of the service manual for the K10D. This showed that under the bottom cover there are adjustment screws for various sensor position settings and wonder if K-7 level is adjusted in a similar same way. I'm not though prepared to take my K-7 apart just to find this out while everything else is working fine .

Glyn