It's worth a bid, but the likelihood of winning is remote unless anyone wants to bid far more than I will be doing...

I'm also tempted by the 100mm f2.8 lenses on offer, but then I always am. Why can't I resist?

Indeed.

You could probably buy one now if you wanted to, but watch the condition and watch the price.

These are highly regarded lenses and a nice mint condition example could reach anything that anyone will pay. Could be £40, could be £90, could be more, depending on the mood of the buyers at the time and how much competition there is.

No, I didn't mean that at all! What I meant to say was that there had been a better turnout - more entries, that is. I must have been doing too many things at once when I typed that post....

It seems a shame that less than a week ago you were still buying new Pentax lenses and now you are suddenly selling them all. What happened?

One of the main advantages of the competition section is that you can upload directly. The reason you can't into the forum itself is to do with bandwidth as suggested. Hence use of Photobucket or similar is necessary. The disadvantage to this with competitions is that some people don't maintain the image and it eventually disappears from the thread. Have a look at some of the older competitions and see how they have been decimated by this.

You can start a competition in the competitions section by clicking on "Start a Competition". More than one can run at once. But the really simple answer is to win the weekly competition and then set the new one as "new pictures taken this week".....

The entries to the competitions have actually been better than the old style and although one or two old names have dropped out, equally many many more new ones have come on board!

This is a wonderful lens, compact, sharp, with a very nice image quality. I used to use this one for landscapes and portraits and on film it is perfect for that.

As regards digital I have not tried it, so you would have to see how it behaves. I see no reason why it shouldn't be excellent.

As for price, they tend to fetch very good prices, so that tells us that people want them!

I think you've hit the nail on the head there. I have bought many, many lenses over the years and not a one has been faulty. Some I have liked more, some I have liked less, but all have performed as expected in a technical sense.

Here's a link:
http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/summermemories/

As my son Mike is an Architect they tend to work on Macs so we did the books on his machine. Not sure if there's a Windows version for PC, but I did hear that one was being prepared.