Yes, and extend the policy as required.

Sorry I forgot the landscape question. Most of my landscapes are shot with the 16-45mm or the 55-300mm.

The 12-24mm tends to be for interior architecture.

There tends to be no difference to my photography whether on vacation or not, so the usual kit is:

SMC Pentax-DA 12-24mm
SMC Pentax-DA 16-45mm
SMC Pentax-FA 50mm f1.4
SMC Pentax-DA 55-300mm

Sue uses the SMC Pentax-DA 18-250mm most of the time, but also the 50mm and the SMC Pentax-D FA 100mm Macro.

You will notice that none of these are primes apart from the 50mm.

If I did go for a set of primes it's difficult to get the right set, but it might have to be 31mm - 43mm - 77mm. This leaves a problem at the wide angle end and I think I end up still needing the 12-24mm.

You won't geta fortune, in fact on eBay they might not sell at all, but someone could well be happy to offer you something.

Yhe only way to find out is to put up the advert.

Would you like this moving to Classifieds?

Home insurance may be the most cost effective route. All Risks sections to your policy might have a single article limit of say £500 or so, which means anything is covered. More expensive items may have to specified on the policy.

Yes, you can use your DSLR with the appropriate adapters and/or eyepiece tube.

You might need guidance from an Astronomy forum, unless we have any astonomers in the house?

Thanks for putting in the effort Stefan. It's becoming clearer that we are thinking along totally different lines as this is not really what I had in mind.

This is more how I was thinking:
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I think of the way the background is reproduced here can be described as good or bad bokeh and it would be interesting to see the same shot with another lens, but taken at the same time.

Unfortunately I can't provide one, but FWIW this one was the 55-300mm DA zoom.

Does this have good bokeh?

Welcome back, Fiona!

If you do sell, the ideal I think is to find someone who is going to actually use the item.

Just recently I sold a Kodak Aero-Ektar lens on eBay to a buyer in Australis, who has refurbished it and is now happily using it on a large format camera. The perfect sale for all parties. Much better than the last 50 years that the lens has been unused!

That's fine. Don't forget to decide who insures it and what happens when someone drops it!