It's very useful, and many thanks for doing this again.

Apart from the 150-450mm and 560mm Pentax lenses there are third-party options, plus on this forum there have been several opportunities to buy longer lenses.

Most of the really long lenses are silly prices anyway, apart from the Pentax 560mm which is actually quite low priced compared to other marques. Those who can spend £10,000 or more on a lens might well look elsewhere, but the rest of us are quite well catered for.

If you joined PU Plus then you would get 20% discount on servicing.

Welcome back and let's have a look at Australia!

I wouldn't want to detract from the OPs for sale thread, suffice it to say the lens is highly thought of so there should be no shortage of buyers.

This macro lens is legendary, at least on film, I don't know about digital. If you get a buyer it would be fantastic if they would agree to loan it to me for a week or two so I can do a "Mini Review" of it. It would be very interesting to see the resolution and CA results from it. If you don't get a buyer I will very likely make you an offer anyway.

Thanks for following up the original posts.

The MX-1 is an amazing camera, so very useful and great results.

Basically because the inspiration for photographic composition starts with paintings. Art is art.

It's a fair point though, up to a point. Photography exhibitions tend to be of a very different nature to conventional galleries, usually a long way from the basics, which I thought we were talking about here.

There was an exhibition of David Bailey images in Aberystwyth a few years ago, and I was actually quite disappointed at the poor quality of the printing. These were iconic images that IMHO were better in a well printed book. It confuses many beginners who look at famous photographers' work and realise that whatever it holds that gives it its magic, it wouldn't pass muster in a beginner's competition at the average camera club. The things are just worlds apart.

I upset the lady in the Pentax Gallery in London once when I told her I didn't think much of the prints on the wall - montages made by sticking bits of prints on top of other prints and they were all peeling off. But I digress, and feel free to say whatever you feel about my images!

More that they had no function on APS-C, so we bought lenses like the 12-24mm. However, as soon as the K-1 arrived the 20-35mm became very useful again and I snapped one up as soon as I saw one. Apart from anything else, the FA zooms are very much smaller and lighter than the D FA ones. Many may not be as good though.