At a certain point you will rip the base of your camera apart. Likewise the lens mount.

To give an extreme example, you wouldn't hold a 1000mm f8 lens by the camera, the leverage would remove the front of the camera. You'd hold it by the lens.

If it feels worryingly heavy, it's too heavy.

Image of the GX20:
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Much much better, worth the extra attention I think.

As regards the colour, I would recommend working throughout in sRGB. If you are mixing SRGB and AdobeRGB then you may well get discrepancies and a dilution of the colour. Your camera and Photoshop can be set to sRGB and everything else you use in an sRGB device - printer, scanner, monitor, the web....

You see a scene, it attracts you and the difficulty really kicks in when you try to transfer that sense of pleasure to film. Digital has an advantage here because yyou can see straight away what you have captured.

The problem here is that nothing is really sharp and there isn't any focal point to grab our eye.

The eye selects, because we only see what we want to see, but the camera does not and it gets it all. My advice is simplify. Decide what the subject is and go for that, excluding anything that is not relevant to the image. Choose a main subject, start of by placing it on a "third" and initially follow the rules of composition.

Later on, work around those rules and learn how to discard them when appropriate - many great images break rules, which are only guidelines for us to start with. The guidelines do work a lot of the time though.

You have the basis for an excellent shot, with dramatic foreground and a focal point to catch the eye - the lighthouse. The lighthouse being white helps, but beware of overexposing the white.

Two things occur to me about this. The first is that to work the foreground should IMO be utterly crisp. That means focusing in the right place (hyperfocal distance) and using a small aperture to maximise depth of field. Tripod. I feel here we are not really sharp, although if you have let your webhost do the resizing of your image that won't have helped. For best results make an image the correct size in Photoshop and upload that.

Second, the horizon isn't straight. Now that might seem a contradition when we are talking about a Fisheye lens, but we know it isn't straight because the lighthouse is leaning over. If you want the lighthouse to lean dramatically then you need to get it up close and make it look deliberate. If you want looming dramatic fish-eye shots then you need to be very very close!

Other than that I enjoyed the picture.

There have been a few contributions to the thread and it would be somewhat unfair to remove these as there is nothing contentious about them.

I've dropped you a PM to see what the problem is.

I don't see the point in this as it's already been covered and many of us will have a selection of other makes, some old, some very old. There is no chance in a poll to offer multiple choices.

There's no need to lose anyone, but sometimes people find it difficult to make the same sort of contribution when the area of common interest is removed.

In the past this has led to serious problems, and we are much more aware now of the pitfalls.

It's not so much a matter of sentiments as of keeping the forum the sort of place that Pentax Users want to be.

Of course you can stay, but let's keep to Pentax and general subjects!

The forum policy is quite clear, in that this is a Pentax User forum intended for Pentax Users.

Having said that, old friends who have decided to jump ship are welcome to stay around, but are expected to avoid promoting their new calling and to restrict themselves to general photographic discussion.

It avoids unecessary conflict.