I'll keep an eye out as well - determined to do Farnes before the decade is over.

Welcome... I'm also from North Wales (C'mon Wales!!)

Was in Cambrian on Saturday - eyeing up the K-1 - got to save up my pennies first...

Yes,
Longest lens you have, camera set on Tv at 1/1500 or faster, filter on front lens to protect from salt spray.
Flash is useful

Dial in some overexposure as the lens will be mostly skywards. Not too much otherwise land shots will be overexposed.

Take standard or wideangle zoom just in case the boat trips are cancelled on the day - the coastline up there is amazing, plus you have Bamburgh and Dunstanborough castles, plus a few nice small harbours.

I've seen mention of the lens too - f6.3 at the long end, unless the camera has astonishing ISO performance I would have expected at least f5.6 to match the competitors.

I know them very well Daron... I'll get in touch with Pramath, obviously he's moved onto newer tech...

In Holland for a car meeting (NSU - proper TT/TTSs - not the hairdresser models) and was going to go round with my K-3 and DA*16-50 - no AF - zilch, nothing, even a twiddle on the screw drive made no difference, lens AF'd fine on the Z-1..

Last repair cost me £180, and I thought I had the latest motor fitted which worked quite well.

Obviously very unhappy about the prospect of having to pay for another repair, so I might to get them on the 6-year trading standards (last repair was 3-4 years ago). Contemplated just getting another lens in that range to use but I don't want a lens lying around without any intention of using it, a S/H 16-50 I couldn't consider because.................

Anyone else who's had a refitted motor fail recently with any tips?

Has meant the 60-250 is in constant use - still an amazingly versatile lens

Thanks

If I didn't already have the FA*28-70 I'd have taken the 28-105 at asking, it is quite highly regarded, the best of the 28-105s IIRC

try the classifieds?

Not ironic... I remember the good old days when the photo mags used to be adorned by scantilly clad ladies....hence the nickname.

Hip Hip Hooray!

Looking at the May 2016 issue they have been testing Macro lenses...the 100 mm WR has been included. Normally I don't see a Pentax offering.

Sadly scores only 3/5

was this a factor?: lack of extra features like image stabilisation is slightly disappointing...

I have been thinking about cancelling my subs to the mag even because of the pro-Canon slant in the reviews (I use Nikon as well as Pentax) and dismayed by some of the testers remarks. But this convinced me to.

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