That's what happens now as the competition ends at 12 midnight on the Sunday. Some of us stay up past midnight, so the judging can be earlier...

The judging of the weekly competition was changed from Sunday to Monday very early on by request from quite a few members. If anyone wants it changing back then this is as good a time as any to say so!

With the crop factor, 100mm and even 70mm are IMO a bit too long. Weddings are cramped affairs with lots of people milling about and I really think the 16-45mm or 16-50mm lenses would be enough.

If you wanted to take candids at the evening reception then the 50mm f1.4 is ideal. Coupled with a high ISO you can even shoot candids under disco lights without the need for flash. I've done it and it made a great slide show as a bonus for the couple involved.

The less lenses the better really.

A Tamron mount is available that will enable you to use your Tamron lenses. You should use the mount with an "A" on the aperture ring for the ease of use this brings. But even using the older plain mount you can still use the lenses in manual stop-down mode.

The *istD is the first of the Pentax DSLRs and it is very well thought of.

If all the items are in superb condition then £200 doesn't seem too bad to me. If they are not in top condition then the price should come down sharply to reflect that.

On the other hand, you could make an offer...

Just to clarify, you can set the exposure compensation between click stops. Tricky, but it does work.

The shutter on the ME Super is stepless on Aperture Priority. This was a huge breakthrough for electronic shutters from the ES onwards. They can deliver 1/386 sec or whatever else. In the case of the ME Super this is from 4 seconds to 1/2000 second, although some individual cameras will exceed the 4 seconds and may deliver much longer exposures.

On manual, it is full stops only for the shutter and half stops for the lens, which is to be expected.

I have now judged the images that were entered and found that if you scroll through them they are all there. It's just the pagination that doesn't work. I haven't declared a winner as this would generate a new competition and this is just a test, but I have commented on each picture and given Commended and Highly Commended awards.

Please now feel free to add further comments on the individual images or on the general thread. Unfortunately pagination is also broken on the general thread so we won't see comments there till later on Monday.

If we want a competition to end on Sunday Midnight by the way we need to enter the end date as the Monday.

My first reaction is that doing it this way made judging easier, so please have a look and let's see what we all think. As the thread in the gallery is not working 100% yet perhaps putting your thoughts here for now would be a good plan.

A monopod does not stop camera movement like a tripod does, so my guess would be SR on. But even with SR off many shots may still be sharp, so seeing no diffence when you might be using higher shutter speeds anyway might not be a reliable test.

You need to test against a test subject to be sure. Newspaper attached to a wall maybe?

Do a forum search "back focus" and you will find all the relevant information.

Before you give up your card have you checked to see if your camera has a firmware update available to enable the use of SDHC cards?