I have been shooting with two systems for a while now (Olympus and Pentax) but moving home means I have to trim down my gear And with Pentax lens prices being against the system, I'm sticking with the Olympus kit.

So, first up for sale is my Samsung branded 10-17mm Fisheye lens, its exactly the same spec as the Pentax version - but has the alluring blue ring instead of green; comes boxed with front and rear caps and is in excellent condition and well looked after.

Samples from this lens here

Looking for £365 including Royal Mail Special Delivery, payment by bank transfer or paypal.

Images of the lens to follow shortly...

Brian.

Got yourself a bargain there - although it must have been a one off as they dont appear to have anything other than Kx and K7's now.

Thanks for all the suggestions, much appreciated - I will be ringing around today to find out who can assess my lens and when.

Thanks again!

Completely agree John!

But basically, Johnsons have deemed the lens BER - which Photoguard are not happy with and would like a second opinion, I'm just not sure where to take it to get one! The lens has already been returned to me in an unrepaired state.

Hi All,

Does anyone know of a repair centre that would be able to quote for a repair of one of my lenses? I'm with Photoguard insurance and they require a second repair assessment before they can continue with my claim, it has already been to Johnsons Photopia - but from looking at Pentax's website, thats who they also use and it has to be a separate company.

Any help would be much appreciated,

Thanks!

A little off topic but... with picasa - you can link to full resolution images and a number of resized options which are done live on the picasa servers upto - 1280 x 850:




along with full res images by removing part of the url:

link to full

I will only link to the full image as I'm not sure how large the jpg is!

Brian.

The only steganography software I have used in the past is Paranoia - this allows you to use a key image / or key text to encrypt and retrieve hidden text. Not sure how well this holds up after the image has been edited or resized.

I believe it would be a mammoth coding task where expertise in digital cryptography would be essential.

Hope that helps!

I've done a handful, and just use the automation script in Photoshop - give fair results. Have been trying to get my head around hugin as the shots I have seen done with that are the most seamless I have seen so far!

Maple Mill in Oldham after recent fire.



Manchester skyline from work 3rd floor window.



Theres a few more on my flickr page, but these are my best two!

Looking to get my hands on a Pentax 16-50mm f/2.8 if anyone has one up for grabs? If not, I'll be buying a new one from SRS either tomorrow or Friday.

Cheers!

shim: If your using Adobe Camera Raw, you can save the DNG's as compressed lossless - gets them down to around 12-15mb - wish Samsung would make it so that happens in-camera!

Brian.