Which you should buy depends upon the sort of macro photography you do.

On film, I've always found the 100mm to be more useful than the 50mm because of the incresed working distance. However, for copying documents the opposite can be true.

The crop factor means that the new 35mm is pretty much like the 50mm on film. The 50mm is like a 75mm and the 100mm is like a 150mm, so there are decisions to be made there.

I'd still go for the 100mm though, and indeed that is what I have done.

This one attempts to show the human artifacts slowly melting away as though there were perhaps a long line of these lighthouses and we're down to the last couple.

Shot in Trouville on the Emerald Coast of France.

One of the things I liked about the MZ5/MZ3 series was that the conventional shutter dial made it possible to handle the camera in a very similar way to my old favourite the MX.

I still have a pristine MZ3 with its equally pristine 24-90mm lens and if only I had the need to use it more it would still be a pleasure.

The last film use I had was the Images of England project, which has now sadly finished. It was fun while it lasted!

Hi, welcome to the forum!

The K10D is fantastic value at the moment and for the sake of a few extra pounds it's well worth getting the kit lens with it.

I would suggest you do this, try it and see and then think about where you want to go from there.

Hopefully after a while you will know what direction you want your photography to take and the choices will be clearer.

I'll try...The masses of the mountains in the foreground and middle distance seem to uncomfortably vie with each other for attention, although on the face of it they should be OK. These heavy masses stop us penetrating the image through to the background, leaving an uncomfortable feeling, which is where the "forced" description comes in.

Perhaps uncomfortable is a better word. I feel there's a barrier between us and our path through the image.

Hope that's helpful.

I'm not convinced by this one either. It's not particularly sharp and the composition I find a little forced.

These sort of landscapes can be quite difficult.

It could be a great image, but if we are meant to be attrracted to the eyes what a shame that the over bright hand is so distracting.

Through a drop of water?

So the obvious answer is Pentax User, but I also subscribe to Amateur Photographer and Shutterbug.

AP is a nice weekly update for adverts as well as tests and articles, not for news which is old before it gets to print these days, and arrives usefully early for subscribers. Every Saturday.

Shutterbug gives a US perspective and is to be had for a remarkably low subscription price.

And it's how the photographer behaves as well. Someone nervous and therefore acting secretively will attract attnetion.

Someone confidently doing just about anything will not generally be noticed. I used to live opposite a school and when workmen arrived one day, put up scaffolding and proceeded to repair the roof no-one realised they were stealing the lead off the roof...