The link is fine for me, but it doesn't say what you have to do for the competition. If it's a draw, they shouldn't call it a competition as a competition depends on the exercise of skill, judgement or knowledge by the participants and does not rely wholly on chance. A draw doesn't.
I suspect the aim of this 'competition' is to create a list of email addresses which can be sold for marketing purposes (i.e. spam them as Gareth seems to suspect) but the spam will come from a variety of sources, not just them, so not easy to filter out.
I'm not suggesting people shouldn't enter it, just to be aware of the potential consequences for doing so. It may be best to use a throw-a-way email address for this just in case.
Anyhow, I've already got an ME and several 50mm lenses!If
If a competition really is involved it would be helpful to know what it is BEFORE you gave them your details.

Could I share a bee photo I took around the same time as the butterfly?

At one time in Weymouth near the quay you'd pull out into the road and have an express train coming up behind you, the road and rail shared the same space!

You've got some good results from the MX-1 there David.

Yes, the MX-1 isn't so 'in your face' as a huge (by comparison) DSLR so folk don't get so intimidated.
What a great set of photos to bring home.

I'm not sure whether using a teleconverer is a good idea or not, It introduces more glass for the light to travel through. Some believe just adding a single haze filter ruins their results!
This is a moon shot I took recently for Dromit's Harvest Moon comp that I didn't use.


This is a cropped image taken with the DA300mm, 1/320" @ f5, ISO 400. So practically the same exposure used by doingthebobs


Re Gareth's comment about moving to the right to get the car lights leading to the moon a couple of posts back, I'd say you'd have to move to the left! I suspect the real answer is to take a shot of the moon and combine it with the lights, though a smaller aperture may have stopped the moon burning out but hopefully leave the car lights OK. You can't really know till afterwards though by which time it is too late.

Lack of sharpness in moon shots isn't always to do with the optics or camera stability. The atmospheric haze plays its part too, that's why they put the Hubble telescope into space, albeit originally with dodgy out of focus optics!

Thanks! It was nice to get a photo lie that straight out of the camera without having to do anything to it, while I did process it from the dng, the camera jpeg wasn't that different. It hasn't been cropped or anything cloned in or out at all.

Yes, quite a lot. A number of M, K and A Pentax glass (primes and zooms), a couple of Hoya tele primes, a couple of Chinons and a Tamron 500mm mirror. Nothing from the M42 era though, I part exchanged those long ago to get my ME, MX and K2. ! If you'd like to suggest any lenses in particular I'll produce something from them for you (presuming I have a copy!) If you have the FA31 and FA43 limiteds they're fabulous.

Well done!



A couple of days ago I had a speckled wood come into the conservatory and it was quite a job leading it to the way out! If its was the same one I took this afternoon its been in the wars since having lost some of the rear of its wing.
The full image is uncropped taken on the K-1 with the DFA 100mm macro lens (1/1250 @ f5.6 ISO 1600.) Both the teasers were 100% crops (actual pixels) of the image. I never cease to be amazed what the K-1 can do.
Made a change to cabbage whites!

I can see where you're coming from, ... but no!

Yep, a butterfly. Well done!

I'd better add another clue.