Sprays protect the print from UV light and hence fading, but inks have improved considerably anyway.

If you had time, spot metering would have done the job here, but your recovery is good enough for web at least. How it would be in a print of any size you'd have to see.

The main comment I have is that they don't convey anything to me, apart from two people standing on a stage looking at each other. There is no sense of menace and no sense of any emotion at all from the actors.

I'm not sure what you could do about that, without taking over and directing them yourself.

This really isn't the best way to go about this.

If you are selling, then Classified Ads is the place this should be, preferably with prices. We won't have much idea if we are interested if we have no idea how much you want.

If there are no takers here, then eBay.

Would you like me to move this to Classifieds so it gets noticed by those who are looking for things to buy?

But as it focuses to 1:1 that doesn't really add up. That's a proper macro lens, not a standard with useful close focusing.

The 35mm Macro is logical in that equates to a 52.5mm Macro on film. 50mm Macro lenses are one of the standard lengths. I think it's too short as well, but there are plenty of applications where it is the lens of choice.

The 100mm Macro (150mm equivalent) is actually getting very close to the 180mm length that was sometimes used on film. I find this length to be suitable for all my macro shooting.

Program Mode but also Tv.

The Pentax Photo Browser is quite good enough for previewing images and as you already have it...why not.

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Beginning of July.

Image quality from the Pentax DSLRs is fine - look at all the superb images on this site and ePHOTOzine for a start to be reassured.

Reviewers have their own slant on things and I guess it depends on what they had set up the K7 to do. Generally, Pentax favours sharp and detailed images, but noise at high ISO may be higher. With the other marques, they will have their own strengths and weaknesses.

Pentax colour reproduction IMHO is second to none.

However, these differences are subtle in many cases and operator handling will have much more effect on the final result.

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