I have some old glass slides from the early 60's I think from my Grandad. I'd have loved to shoot with Kodachrome 64........

WR lenses officially sold!

Both DA WR zooms sold pending payment.

18-55 sold pending payment.

Price drop:

18-55 WR - £35
50-200 WR - £70
A 50mm 1.7 - £30

ES and M42 55mm 1.5 Takumar any offers.

The way things are going in the "market" I may just stop trying to sell anything and just start skipping stuff........ I anyway have just about had it with eBay......

I'm wondering how you get on with manual focusing here? I always seem to struggle a bit as I wear glasses?

I need to play with my K series glass!

After reading John Rileys bit about OOC shots, here are a few with the K5 and DA* 16-50. Taken with the K5 as JPEGs and imported into iPhoto rather than Lightroom. Done nothing to them.... the light was pretty harsh and around midday, hard to control exposure. Went with ISO 100 and used Av. It's fine though as I live about 5 minutes away so going back is easy!

My brain is mush. Yep low ISO is always best!

I always boost contrast in Lightroom. Maybe it's the monitor on this laptop that's a problem? Need to set up my big PC again.....

The rather hot and fine weather recently has been causing me some consternation as I have been struggling to control exposure correctly in areas of harsh sunlight and deep shade.

Been wondering about the different metering modes on the K5, I have been mainly using spot metering alongside centre weighted autofocus. Been keeping ISO at 100 and am wodering if this best in conditions where large dynamic range is desirable?

I have been finding it harder to get decent results after using much better lenses than the kit lens. Is it due to my perception that these DA* lenses are just more unforgiving of poor technique and amateurish usage? Or I'm so used to the kit lens that the superior images I'm looking at (more natural, greater sharpness, colour) look wrong to me?

Since the baby I've hardly been out and when we do go out there simply isn't time to stand about and compose properly, have to take snapshots as and where I can.

Bump.