brooksy69 wrote:
John - possibly, depending on your location etc. Postage I think would be a bit more than to the UK, so I would probably say £165 plus postage to your location by a tracked method.

Dust isnt bad at all - just looked at the flickr photos and nothing shows on those (these were SOOC RAW to Tiff and then uploaded to flickr). There are 3 or 4 specks which have got in under the front. They have had no noticeable effect on my images - for example http://www.flickr.com/photos/brookys69/sets/72157623054664967/ was shot with them, as was most of the recent stuff before the K10D set on my flickr stream. My guess is that if you started shooting at very small apetures f16 and smaller then you might begin to see traces of it on the images (but would also be seeing specks of dust on the sensor too). Certainly nothing some cloning in photoshop couldnt easily sort out.

That is my honest opinion - I could try and get some pictures where you could see the dust if you like - let me k now how serious you are regfarding buying. Unfortunately I now dont have a pentax body to test it on regarding my f16 theory.

As a lens I liked it - wasnt the sharpest, but then I used my 50mm or 135mm for that sort of stuff, but as a day to day lens it was great - nice feel to it and good images and a decent amount of pull. Considering its nikon mount cousin as a general walkabout lens for the new body