Very nice return on your investment, well done!

I've seen at least one very effective "imitation bromoil" done with digital, but I only know it was spot on and not how it was achieved.

So it is possible.

It's a grey area isn't it. I wondered that too, because for critical focusing it would make AF useless. Quick Shift would work, because a slight tweak after AF would do the trick. But we don't know how well digital lenses are corrected in the IR band and we don't know if the focus point on converted cameras is adjusted as part of the conversion.

Thinking about it, it could mean that the focus adjustment feature could be used for a particular lens in the K20D menu. So you could reserve a lens for IR work and adjust its focus point to compensate. Interesting thought?

Nathan, you are assuming that locking a post was directed at you. Just suppose for a moment that it wasn't and a whole new view opens up.

After all, why would anyone on a Pentax User site stop a discussion praising Pentax service? They wouldn't would they?

Now if you were being stopped from having a discussion, then this thread would certainly have been stopped on many forums.

Certainly. As you can see, there's only room in the box for the briefest of comments!

It was turning into an argument between individuals, so I stopped it to allow the feelings to calm down.

It still all there to read, so you don't need to worry that anything was censored. Not by me anyway.

If there's anything anyone wants to add, just start a new thread and let's keep it all on a less tense level.

Forums are moderated, which involves judgement calls. Locked threads have an explanation appended to them at the bottom in a box labelled "Locked Reason"

The Pentax 18-250mm is a very respectablew lens, but slow at the long end (f6.3) and quite bulky and heavy.

Yes, that's true. The point is that you need some glass there to replace the removed filter.

Sensors are very sensitive to IR and the scattering of IR light would detract from the image, so most cameras have an IR blocking filter.

Depending on how strong this filtration is depends on how effective the camera is with a IR filter over the lens (one that allows only IR light)

DSLRs can be modified for proper IR photography. The "hot filter" over the sensor is replaced with clear glass.

As stated in guidelines, please keep to the point in Classifieds and leave the discussion to other forum areas. Donut is trying to advertise a lens and apart from the serial number explanation, all this is cluttering the process up.