G'day & welcome.

G'day and welcome - good camera, that.

If I had to pick one, I'd make it the last of the series David - it has a 'borderless' look to it, being constrained least by the edges of the glass-work etc.

Don, lovely Australian flora! I prefer the first, however they both have a background that is difficult to use as an effective contrast with/for the flowers.

I've had a go at the first jpg, with limited results:

[IMG]http://i772.photobucket.com/albums/yy9/i_berg/Misc/grevillea21-1.jpg[/IMG]

If you had the chance, try re-shooting these great flowers against a different background (eg get down low and use the sky?)

Good luck!

This is a quality lens Steve - another vote for it. Good IQ & rendering, and at f2.8 very usable indeed. While it may not be the longest zoom, it is equivalent to around 200 mm in 35mm terms.

Send me the bill later...

Robin,

I just pointed it at a directory full of DNG files (mix of K10 and Kx) - works just fine. On Vista 32 bit, fully patched.

There's a ready way to check which focal lengths you've been using the whole time, assuming you still have the images on your PC.

Download this:

link

Install it, point 'ExposurePlot' at your pictures on your PC, run it, then check out the results.

It will plot the focal length and exposure data of all the images it locates on your PC. That will tell you exactly what you tend to favour.

You can then make a better informed decision about what focal length of lens/es will give you the most use.

Thereafter, you can think about macro, max aperture, WR etc.

Hope that helps, all the best with it.

My K10 is similarly on a permanent setting of +120um, after tripod tests of all lenses in use.

The old Hill's hoist! Thanks Paul.