Thanks for sharing your thoughts Richard.
No I don't intend selling my 60-250 to fund this although I will be letting my 35 LTD go and revisiting that focal length in the future. In reality I have pretty reasonable coverage (FA 28, FA 50 and 16-50) in that area at the moment anyway.
With regard to a future 100-300 with HSM, that would be nice and I would have thought relatively easy for Sigma to do as they already offer it in Canon and Nikon mounts. Still I guess if you waited and waited for the next model you would never end up procuring any kit in the first place

I will have to see how long it takes to get the funds together and hope I don't have a washing machine or TV go pop in the mean time

Rob thanks that is extremely helpful.
I think my mind is now pretty much made up. The Sigma 100-300mm seems to be a bit of a no brainer and with a matched converter that works very well I'll have the focal length flexibility I want.
Now just need to get the funds together

Sadly making way (partly helping to fund) a lens at the longer focal length end of the spectrum. The overall condition of this DA 35 Ltd is what I would term excellent. Optics unmarked and the lens operates perfectly. Cosmetically there is a very slight rub on the lens cap's chamfered edge and the lens has a couple of tiny marks on the left hand side serrated grip area (shown in the second image below). Needless to say it comes complete with all original packaging, pouch and instructions.

The price... £285 including shipping within the UK by Royal Mail Special Delivery next day. Payment by bank transfer or via Paypal (if by Paypal buyer pays the fees of approximately 4%). Please note that funds must clear my bank account before I ship the lens to you.

Lastly I will consider shipping abroad but it will come down to the ability to verify delivery by the available shipping method (at extra cost to you). Please understand that if I do not feel confident with the available shipping options (outside the UK) then I will not sell to you, sorry!

Please PM me if you have any questions
Thanks for looking

Lastly some photos.....

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The tiny marks I mentioned

[IMG]http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/792/da35marks.jpg[/IMG]

CaptureOne 5.1 has been released with quite a few updates over 5.02.
Taken from release notes:-


New features:
• New spot type ideal for removing imperfections in images.
• New advanced noise reduction tool.
• Multiline fields the metadata tool.
• New metadata fields including GPS information in the metadata tool.
• New advanced recipe options controlling what metadata are included in processed files.
• New preference determining how to handle conflicting metadata during load.
• New inverse color slice feature in the color editor.
• New preference to disable JPEG/TIFF editing.
• New auto and style selector items for the toolbar.
• New size options for the focus and process recipes tool.
• Aspect ratios available directly from the crop cursor tool.
• New welcome screen.
• New option for naming without appending numbers.
• Customizable toolbar on Windows (already on Mac).
• New Auto Pause option to determine how auto selection of images works during capture.
• New Importer option for setting when to select import folder or to notify upon completion.
• Capture One gains basic color editor, clarity tool, full metadata editing and predefined
workspaces.

Enhancements:
• Workspaces now including the toolbar configuration.
• Clarity tool now allowing negative clarity values useful for portrait work.
• Streamlined Edit All Selected replaces old Edit Primary feature.
• Sorting now including sort by process state and smarter sorting by name.
• Better performance when selecting a recent folder and doing freehand rotation of images.
• Generally improved interactive speed.
• Fixed issue with tethered capture on 64-bit versions of Windows if the computer has 4GB or
more installed memory.
• Improved colors for Phase One P65+ and P40+.
• EIP support for all supported RAW files types.
• A number of other enhancements and bug fixes.

Additional camera tethered support:
• Leaf Aptus II 10, Aptus II 7, Aptus II 6, Aptus II 5 (all preliminary on Windows)
• Leaf Afi II 10, Afi II 7, Afi II 6 (all preliminary on Windows)
• Leaf Aptus 75S, Aptus 65S, Aptus 54S (all preliminary on Windows)
• Leaf Afi 7, Afi 6, Afi 5 (all preliminary on Windows)
• Leaf Aptus 75, Aptus 65, Aptus 22, Aptus 17 (all preliminary on Windows)
• Canon 1D Mark IV, 7D
• Nikon D3s

Additional camera file support:
• Leaf Aptus II 8 (preliminary)
• Leaf Aptus 75S, Aptus 65S, Aptus 54S
• Leaf Afi 7, Afi 6, Afi 5
• Leaf Aptus 75, Aptus 65, Aptus 22, Aptus 17
• Canon 1D Mark IV
• Nikon D3s
• Sony Alpha DSLR-A500, DSLR-A550

Apparently not Stefan, I understand Rachel Katz has denied their blanks are from the same source as Focusing Screen.com which partly why I've ordered a K3 Grid to try

I will let you know when I receive it and have a play, they are supposed to be shipping it today (delay because of Taiwanese holidays).

Nice work Roy, I prefer your number one with the more natural look but I can see where i-Berg was going with it.

I had a quick go at some tweaks (such a lovely image to play with :wink, I hope you don't mind

[IMG]http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/7853/roysimage.jpg[/IMG]

I think you have made an improvement there Stefan. Yes I think the brown grip looks better than black. Nice work

I buy it occasionally, perhaps for a particular review or as Will says for light reading on a journey / trip.

It's nice certainly but I prefer my vanilla version