Hi Richard

I've sent you a PM (Private Message) and hope you will decide to stay around and get to know the real people on this site.

These Pentax lenses:
12-24mm
16-45mm
55-300mm
50mm f1.4
100mm Macro

If it's all very confused in your mind, I would suggest going back to basics.

Just use your basic lens for a day or two's shooting, perhaps the 18-55mm, or whatever is normal in your set of lenses.

Enjoy the photography and don't take any other lenses out with you. Then think about how often you needed anything wider or longer. If you constantly found the lens not wide enough, then you may need a wider zoom and the 12-24mm Pentax is the best one.

If you found a need for something longer then the 55-300mm Pentax is inexpensive and excellent.

If your needs are different to that, then maybe this exercise will help to clear your mind.

Hope that helps!

Companies never used to charge, but these days it seems that the cost of lower prices has been that nothing gets done for free.

Quotes are charged for, unrepaired items charged for return.....it's the tip of the iceberg.

Does this mean we can never win?

Sometimes people register and then post messages that are not appropriate. As soon as they are spotted they are stopped, but it is important that you let us know as they seem clever enough not to send copies to the Moderator Team.

When advising that spam is occuring, please ensure you mention the offending username so they can be dealt with.

Thanks for the infor MEC176, but it has been dealt with. I've removed your original post because by including the offending e-mail text you have effectively re-published it, along with her contact details!

If it happens again, a PM will suffice to alert us.

She has been banned, but any exisiting PMs will still have been read. If there are any variations on the user name that need banning as well as Rosseline, then please let me know.

The user in question has been banned and the e-mail address references removed as well.

If you get any more PMs of this nature, just drop me a PM.

Indeed, you see there is a forum policy for some things, and one of those is that it's a Pentax User forum, for Pentax and general photography purposes, but not other marques.

Other things that tend to disappear are certain pharmaceutical adverts and posters who are promoting some commercial enterprise unconnected with photography.

However, in the general run of things not much gets deleted, and it can always be put back if the situation changes for some reason.

What we can't do is have a debate over every deleted item, which as we have seen here quickly becomes a bit ridiculous. I understand that feelings run very high sometimes - it's the price we pay for the ability to have instant feedback and interaction.

Just imagine this conversation by letter post. It just wouldn't happen.

I've looked agin at the thread in question this morning and it seems very sanitised now, mainly because the offending sections seem to have been edited out by some posters.

As it stands, there's no reason to lock it, so I'll be releasing it shortly. In any event, we can be encouraged by Nathan's original tale that customer service is not dead yet.