Rob,

I only have the Tammy, no experience with the other two.

I have a colleague who likes his Pentax, and swears by it.

If they are all the same price, you would not go wrong with either, I'm thinking! You will likely end up manually focussing your macro shots anyway, so the lack of a focus limiter may not be the deal breaker you think it is, should you choose to stay with Pentax.

That said, some reviews put the Tammy marginally ahead of the Pentax in terms of sharpness.

Your call.

Hi - have you tried adjusting your Ev by a couple of stops to compensate?

Steve,

My daughter had a children's book we used to read to her, and that had pictures of boats not dissimilar to these - these would be 'narrow-boats' then, if the book terminology was accurate?

2 and 4 for me Doc, but the entire series is resplendent with the feelings of Spring!

(extracts foot from mouth)...

Doc, my apologies if any offence taken. Yes, I do believe the last image is better. It's a marvellous capture to see them poised in mid-flight like this.

Aha! But it still may have been - perhaps a cellar door opening, or the street level now conceals something long ago buried. That's what archaeology is for! (now where's that Womble...)

Great actions shots (the colour on No 2 is a bit odd though?) The Tammy is a handy macro lens, although you may have the beaut model that Gareth uses?

Thanks David. That was precisely the conversation I had hoped to foster.

The place has 'a past', and as such, a spot in the social history of Melbourne. While hindsight into a previous era is all very well, it certainly appears to have been an institution where orphans and children adopted out by desperate, unmarried mothers were used in a work-house / poor-house environment.

The place has a disquieting feel in parts, as you wander about. I'm not the only one who has passed comment on it. The titles of images in my 'Forgotten Convent' gallery on Pbase (shameless plug) are reflective of aspects of this.

Thanks George, although I'm not confident I'm anywhere near that league.

As you've said elsewhere, let's just be thankful we're still standing. 26 years was way too short for Adamson...