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Ah !

Now I understand.

In fact the aim must be to come a highly commended second having been just pipped at the post by the smallest possible margin by the winner

I was wondering whether it might be better if the closing time for the submission of entries to the weekly competition was 6.00pm GMT on Sundays rather than midnight.

This would give the unlucky person who has to judge the competition some time on a Sunday evening (if they live in northern europe) to carry out this task rather than having to find time on a Monday morning, when many are at work.

I realise that this presumably would be of no benefit whatsoever for those forum members in other parts of the world and therefore might be rejected for this reason alone.

I believe that Lilly stills holds the world record for the fastest judging ever

A year ago I was toying with same decision but decided on the DA* 50-135, since the DA* 60-250 was not due out until late 2007. There is still no sign of it arriving and in the meantime, some other DA* lenses that were never on earlier roadmaps have appeared

Pentax roadmaps are rather like government road building programmes, they plan to build a bypass around town 'x' but somehow it never quite happens

Martin / MX,

Many thanks for the comments and suggestions.

On my office monitor (set up for CAD) the two photographs look too dark, but at home they look just fine.

Is there a way around this problem, given that I was shooting straight into the sun :

I was not sure that anything of use would result from these shots, so overall I am reasonably pleased.

K10D + DA 10-17 @ 10mm




K10D + DA 10-17 @ 10mm

Thanks for the link.

Now signed.

Steve,

A few months ago, I would have jumped at the opportunity since they were out of stock everywhere.

But eventually I bought one from the PentaxUser shop where they are currently only £16.20 + p and p.

I would suggest that you hang onto it since, they go mising really easily, being so small.

Red Roger Flint (ex Admiral)