As regards Pentax lenses, the 50mm f2 and f1.7 designs will be better than the f1.4 and f1.2 ones for use with close up accessories.

The best option will of course be the macro lens, but that will cost a bit more, so perhaps buy that later if macro turns out to be a major interest?

As always, it depends what you are trying to achieve.

By and large I no longer use filters with digital, preferring to apply the effects in Photoshop as required. The polariser remains the only filter to retain its usefulness, unless a protection filter is needed to shield the lens perhaps from salt water spray.

If you want to prevent scattered blue light from ever reacing the lens then a Haze or Skylight filter could be used, but would remove the mistiness that just might enhance an image.

Letting that go as it is, but please remember this is a Classified Advert, the debate clutters it up and doesn't help the buying/selling process.

Please keep to the point from here onwards!

Only in the sense that this section is for Classified Adverts and anything else that distracts from the listing of the item and the questions apertaining to that may be removed.

In the past it has been known for unrelated debates to evolve, which can detract from the process of buying and selling of the item.

Also from a very small and very unrepresentative sample.

Generally I want to capture the colour of the ambient light, so I set my camera to Daylight and leave it there.

If you want warmer pictures, use Cloudy.

However, if you are shooting RAW then the white balance is irrelevant as you set this afterwards in the RAW converter.

To be fair, we don't have any proper evidence that there is a high failure rate. There are failures, but we have no idea what percentage they are.

If the lens is under warranty then the repair should be free, unless caused by physical damage. Even if not under warranty there are over-riding factors in UK and EU legislation and you may be able to get a free repair anyway.

If you go to www.adaps.org.uk you will find a link on the page that will take you to the ADAPS Year Book 2009-2010, which I prepared via www.blurb.com

You can preview the first 15 pages of the book to see one way it can be done. Then check out Blurb's pricing structure.

Just to double check that your lens actually has an "A" on the aperture ring? If not, then your camera will be working in Av mode regardless of what other auto mode you set, and at open aperture.

This would mean that as you pan across the sky at some points the fastest shutter speed available may not be fast enough to prevent over-exposure.

Just a thought.

Was it about the K-m? Just click on your user name and it will take you to your profile. This will show the posts threads you have started or contributed to.

Probably you're not familiar with the layout yet and have just mislaid it.