I'll make it quite clear that Private Messages are exactly that and are not disclosed or discussed with anyone, unless of course the recipents make the contents public, which they should not do.

Thanks for the enhanced description. Yes, it's for the Mamiya medium format cameras, and I think the N lenses were the 645 ones.

No idea of current value, but maybe an eBay search would help. These days it's hard to predict some values as really good lenses can fetch peanuts.

That's fair enough Karl, but it should never be destructive criticism. We don't want to discourage beginners unnecessarily, so when posting critique we should always say what we like about and image as well as what we think could be improved.

There are very good guidlines to offering critique given on ePHOTOzine.

Are you sure it's medium format and not a 35mm lens? What sirt of mount does it have?

Also, if you could be more specific about the lens by repeating exactly what spec it has, as written on the front, then an answer might be possible.

Well I've just arrived back to find all this, and as most of you are not aware of what has happened behind the scenes in the past few days with a couple of members, apparently from the same group, I'll just say that some of the comments in this thread are somewhat disingenuous to say the least.

Cloudhunter is obviously way out of line, intentionally so it seems, so unfortunately we will not be seeing him here again.

Some of you will be surprised to learn that you are my "cronies" just as much as I am.

It's a pity that there are still some here who seem to want to cause trouble, they know who they are, and I will now ask them for a final time to stop. Trolling will not be allowed.

There is definitely room for all, and photography is not a male dominated area at all.

For example, our Photo Society has huge numbers of female members, as does its committee, and the mix is not yet 50/50 but it's certainly heading that way!

As for age, we never know people's age on a forum, only what they tell us!

http://www.digi2slide.co.uk/

is the company. What was nice about them was that when one of my files didn't write too well to the slide they said they would try again. A few days later three alternative attempts turned up at no extra charge, and one was spot on.

My goodness, that will seem a confusing comment, as someone just posted a message and then immediately deleted it.

Ah well, that's OK then.

Paul, I think you should read this thread again.

It didn't start as a "George Rant" and hasn't descended into a war. It's been an intelligent and rational discussion, apart from one exception perhaps.

The very thought of doing that makes me shudder...

If you are heating up the equipment you are causing all sorts of unecessary heat expansion and I think the potential for serious damage is there.