Welcome back Pete - I'm sure you're pleased to back in circulation.

I've moved this to General Chat as it was a bit lost under a mass of announcements.

The pentax started life at over £350, so buying the last few at £199 is a bit of a bargain.

Take user reviews on forums with the same pinch of salt that you take magazine reviews with. Some are informed views, some are not. Look for evidence in terms of images that really show something valid, not blurred shots through kitchen windows, and then judge for yourself for your own applications.

If I had only bought Pentax from the start I would have saved a fortune over the past 40 years, but of course without trying all the independent lenses I tried I didn't have the information and relied upon some very dubious opinions in magazines.

As for you now, all the lenses will be sharp for small prints and monitors. The differences may be subtle but will be obvious on close inspection of A3 prints. Hope that helps!

So much choice can be confusuing, but if you can pay the price of the Pentax lenses they are worth it.

Don't forget that the SMC coating gives superb consistence if colour from lens to lens as well as resistance to flare. The controls all work the same way, such as direction of zoom, the ability to fine tune focus manually in AF is incredibly useful.

The lenses are also more compact. Finally if your choice needs updating later, you will get lots of interest for Pentax lenses on eBay, far more so than independent makes. Pentax lenses can reach silly prices. There has to be a reason for that.

I've reported this because I can't even get into it to delete it.

Things tend to go awry when we use computer code as part of the title - in this case a file extension "jpeg" and sometimes something like a forward slash.

The moral is keep titles simple!

I have both and I'm happy to own both for different purposes, but the high quality choice is always the 16-45mm.

It's a strange Internet effect. Someone somewhere must start it off and the error becomes compounded, increasing exponentially.....

Lens is spelt lens and the plural is lenses. Maybe the mistake started with the plural form confusing the issue.

I hope so!

The 16-45mm is a lovely lens and I use it most of the time. Never mind reviews, just make some great photos with it.

The LX3 will not be in the same league. No bridge camera will match the quality of a DSLR.

The Industar 50mm f3.5 apparently makes a good enlarging lens, so it should be good on a bellows unit.

Quite by coincidence I have just put my Nikkor 80mm f5.6 enlarging lens on eBay, which is in superb condition.