And didn't you just sell your Sigma 24, Mike? [/quote]It's like a lens merrygoround[/quote]Thought I was playing Elite then for a minute!

Are you sure it's a fault? Most zooms today aren't true zooms, rather they are varifocal lenses - in that you have to adjust the focus when you zoom. A true zoom (parfocal) doesn't do this.

It may be that in order to achieve infinity focus at one end of the 'zoom' range, it may take the other end over 'infinity'. It may also have been that what you were shooting wasn't close enough to infinity - with a long lens this can be quite far. Environmental conditions may also have an impact (pressure, temp & humidity).

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An annoyance yes, but possibly not a fault (at least not one that can be easily corrected).

Regards,

John.

One of my Ebay purchases came with some old Pentax Club documentation, among it was a leaflet advertising his '83 Calendar, and the ME Super Book of Photography (£5.95 + p&p) and the BJP LX book (£3.50 including p&p).

John.

I think #7 is the best, and for this season a more interesting shot than any of the 'racing' - which is now rubbish.

That's an excellent shot David.

John.

Alternatively, £55 posted to the UK with generic caps.

I was surprised the K-5 has a crippled mount, even my MZ-M not only open-aperture meters with the lens off 'A', but with an FA (and I suspect F) lens attached, even reports the aperture in the finder when it's not on A (of course the MX & LX etc. do this too ).

The green button is a convenient work-around which works well, but I feel is it a backwards step, especially for the 'top end' bodies.

John H.

It's not your ISP compressing the image when viewed on the forum is it?

Does the first one you submitted look sharp when loaded from your hard disc?

My ISP compresses all images, when I move the mouse pointer over them I get a prompt 'Shift + R improves this image', when I do this on your first, it improves significantly. Hard to see what's not sharp then (but then I've never used an FA43).

John.

Thanks for the insight Smeggy, there was me thinking the three foot strop that came with my K-5 was to stop me dropping the camera, now I understand why I've been doing it wrong.

More concerning is that these were fire/smoke incidents and they still haven't been able to identify the problem - yet they're about to re-start flying them.