I have to tell you it might be longer than you would want to wait...

We all know that SRS don't sell second hand goods pretending they are new, so let's not go down this path....

With any supplier, if something is wrong then we tell them about it and they, hopefully, put it right.

If no response soon a competition will be posted.

If you do that you will end up with a useless lens that is always wide open. It's the lever that operates the stop-down when it is activated by the camera's internal link.

A sticky diaphragm will mean over-exposed results by the way.

Photography is a very personal thing, so it's your picture and I wouldn't presume to try to improve it. What I can do is show you what I would do with the image, and it would end up something like this:
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Nothing too radical, but I tend to find skies can distract and split the image and I've changed the emphasis of the composition. I've also warmed the image (Photo Filter) and added a bit more sharpening.

It looks like everyone has had their say now, so I am going to lock off this thread so we can move onto other things.

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Then we get a lovely () shade of green!

I don't think anyone from this forum will be buying a 50-200mm for £299.99. I too was amazed at their cheek when I saw that.

It has always been that way and I suppose that having more lenses available makes the camera system more attractive and gets more buyers in.

Taking the K mount you can pay Pentax a fee to have access to their technical information to make your lenses, or, like Sigma, you can pull the product apart and "reverse-engineer" your lenses. This is why Sigma lenses can need to be re-chipped to continue to work with newer bodies.