No problem Chris. Those articles are based upon what I find when teaching small groups of absolute beginners. It's easy to forget that for the mass of new digital users, the whole thing is a mystery and yes, they are even using programs such as Photoshop 5 oe Elements 2 in some cases. Some users deperately want to get to grips with their new digital cameras and are not even sure how to get their images onto the computer.

The beginners articles are not aimed at you Chris, and maybe you never were struggling with the first steps, but something simple that works is the idea behind them. As users develop, then they can take on board alternatives and more complex ideas.

The higher the quality of a lens the more we will notice the fall off in performance past f16. Some makers stopped at f16 for their lenses, including Pentax until the bayonet lenses came along and stretched to f22.

In the days of your new lens, f22 was not generally considered to be a useful aperture because of diffraction.

Don't forget that the image will be brighter and because the DOF at f1.2 is so shallow it will snap in and out very sharply.

I don't see why it can't happily be a mixture of beginners and more advanced articles.

Beginners need basic information with out the complex clutter of alternatives and others need more detailed hard facts, full of clutter.

I had my say on the AP forum and Damien did respond to that very briefly, but did not comment further. The letter in AP no doubt shows that they wanted to show they had allowed another view and that they weren't biased as accused.

The letter was very well thought out and debunked the original very convincingly. Well done for that, very well done.

Thanks womble. I wonder how many they sell...

If that happened it would be a clue that there might still be a demand.

Are there any AF f1.2 lenses from any maker? Or is AF not precise enough to make it feasible?

Can Chris at SRS confirm this?

PU isn't printed in that sort of style.

Some of these are hgetting a bit old now to expect that they won't need some servicing before regular use.

You might look at the late Pentax film SLRs that have conventional shutter dials and can be used in a traditional way.

Manual focus: MZ-M
Autofocus: MZ5, MZ5n and MZ3

All these should be fine if in good condition. The other MZ series cameras operate in a very similar way to current DSLRs - the MZ6 even has Custom Functions that can be set.