Thanks. I'm not sure it shows off the features of a wide lens. When I first got the 10-20 I had ambitions to use it for landscapes but I tended to get vast open empty foregrounds. However it has been good for buildings especially when you are limited in distance. It also makes our small rooms look huge

For the amaryllis I had to get very close and was right on the close-up focus limit for the lens (about 24cm):

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It was nice to get in first but I'm sure we are going to see a lot more pictures that do a better job of showing off the attributes of a wide lens.

Glyn

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I would like to kick off this competition with a shot of an Amaryllis using the wide lens, very close, to cover two of the flower heads.


K20D with Sigma 10-20 @ 10mm
f16, 1 sec & ISO 100

Taken Friday 6th March 2009 at 09:48

Glyn

I'm glad someone else thinks that too. I'm sure I saw one yesterday, after mine, that looked like some gathered material that later vanished. I thought I was hallucinating again

I think I know what Belinda B's is. For a while I have been sure that it looked familiar and eventuality my memory kicks in and a little hunting around some specialist online catalogues seems to create some confirmation. If I'm right then while there are millions of the generic form of this device in the world the presented sample is a very exotic type that only get to the wish-list stage for people like me.

Glyn

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I'm sure this is far too easy.

K20D with DA*16-50 @ 50mm
1/4sec, F22 and ISO 100
Taken on 27/02/2009 @ 13:59

Glyn

I think I have had exactly the same problems with my K20D and reading this thread has made me feel a lot happier

I have had two different occurrences:

I have had it lock up on about three occasions when it just seemed to stop working and turning it off left the number of free exposures on the top LCD. On each occasion I had to remove the battery to recover it. This only happened when I was using the 2s timer.

I have also had two instances where it appears to have taken a shot but the displayed and stored picture was all purple, albeit with a complete set of exif data that looked ok. Once it is in this state then further shots came out either all purple or white. This problem was fixed by just turning it off and back on.

My K20D dates from November last year and I'm up to just over 1600 exposures. I'm using Firmware 1.01.

I never had any problems like this with the K10D (10,000+ exposures) but both problems appear to happen very infrequently and seem to be easily recovered. I decided that it would be very difficult to convince anyone else that there was a problem so I have just accepted it as the sort of device crash that seems to be common on lots of complex equipment.

I suspect that there is a subtle bug in the software that manages the sensor which of course is new for the K20D which may be influenced by the differences within tolerances so that it does not occur on all devices.

Glyn

Just a quick reminder that we have already, fairly recently, had a discussion about this lens which might help:

https://www.pentaxuser.com/forum/topic/35mm-DALimited-Macro-10038

Glyn

I'm 53 and a half.

Halves, which were very important when I was under 10, have become important again now I'm over 50

Glyn

Who is waiting for the snow to thaw before getting back to his gardening.

But in this case I think bdimitrov is wrong. Mine are both 64mm dia x 37.5mm back plate to front at infinity and 45.2mm at the other end. No where near a 6mm length difference. I suspect a cut & past error with his M & A to F & FA

Glyn

Having just measured mine I think they are exactly the same size but I agree about the weight. My 1.4 is 46g heavier @ 232g than my 1.7 @ 186g on our kitchen scales

My 1.7 was acquired 2nd hand for £69 in 2005 and I definitely prefer it over the 1.4.

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Glyn

I would just like to add my thanks for your excellent judging and your kind comments and commendation on my entry.

It was looking quite difficult to find something to submit but the weather came to my rescue. Now with the job done can we please have our normal weather conditions back. I had to use the diff-lock on my baby 4x4 for the first time ever today just to get out onto the road

Glyn