Looks like two left hands to me, one on either side of the glass. Very strange....

Excallent images, especially the first two, which are full of drama. You have a keen grasp of composition as well.

The problem with having more sections is that some members will be unsure where to post even more than now and the images will all get mixed up anyway.

As it is we get ads in General Chat, photos in Digital SLRs, and all sorts of things. No big deal to shift them but more sections will probably mean more confusion.

Your Photos is just that, a place to put your Pentax-related images for whatever purpose you like. Just state why it's there.

"Pentax related" is there simply not to exclude Pentax Users with Sigma, Tamron and other lenses. And of course the Pentax made Samsung products.

Hope that helps!

Still not there. Can you try again in the original thread?

What George is referring to is that we can't see any image. I'll move this over to Your Photos in anticipation!

The last film I shot and scanned was for a Pentax User article on Images of England, a couple of years back now at least.

I was very glad to get back to digital. It's much cleaner and I think the results are better now than film. In 35mm anyway.

IMHO we need to go to 6x7 now to actually better digital.

I have a comparative test of 50mm f1.2 lenses from Creative Photography, a long defunct magazine that lasted a splendid 13 issues.

The Pentax one equals the performance of the other 50mm lenses in the range when stopped down, with lower resolution and contrast when wide open. However, it has excellent control of point light sources, which is logical considering its likely uses.

I'll try to remember to look out all those lens tests tomorrow and see what interesting snippets I can find.

I wouldn't presume to comment!

Camera shake, moon movement and atmospheric haze are the enemies of sharpness here.

These are the areas that you could look at but, as Chris says, ditch the teleconverter first.

If you want everything in focus in a scene, you need to focus on the "hyperfocal distance" - as a "rule of thumb" set a small aperture (say f16) and focus one third of the way into the scene. Choose a point that is one third of the way between the nearest and furthest points you want to have sharp.