You seem to have posted it twice, so I've left this one as it has a reply. Unless of course it was a stereo pair!

There's a nice feel to the image.

Do you guys realise you are dredging stuff up from three years ago?

Please leave the posts on Classified Ads just to the buying/selling process. people tend not to like discussions about pricing very much, so I've removed those comments.

If anyone wants to make an offer, then please do so. A picture of the lens generally helps.

I would be interested to know from where you get the information that it doesn't matter. The camera manufacturers say it does matter. It's no big deal to believe them is it?

Brilliant, thanks Glyn! That list could be very valuable indeed to anyone who sets themed competitions, so many ideas....

You could check out the lens reviews on ePHOTOzine and Photodo, as well as many other sites. The only way to be sure a lens will live up to your expectations though is to try it out. Maybe a shop with the lenses in stock would let you shoot a few images with your camera body?

It's the same as not defragmenting a hard drive, the card gets cluttered with odd bits of old file structure. Formatting sets everything up anew, just as formatting a hard drive would.

Some might consider it overkill, some might think it's just good housekeeping. I think the latter, certainly where SD cards are concerned.

Just deleting the images means the card capacity may gradually reduce. Formatting resets the file structure.

In any event, our cards have outlived their useful capacity long before they have failed. We moved from 1GB to 2, 4 and now 8GB. Next time I replace all the cards, which I do every couple of years, no doubt it will be 16GB.

We don't stay in hotels, we rent cottages, so there are plenty of places to keep the laptops.

Each day on holiday has aits own SD card. Each evening we transfer the images to a laptop, but we keep the SD cards. This means we have two copies until we get home. Then the SD cards are transferred to the main PCs, after which the they can be formatted ready for use again.

SD cards don't cost very much and currently I rotate eight or so 8GB cards. As I shoot JPEG only as a rule, this gives plenty of capacity. Sue doesn't use as many cards as I do, so she has a slightly different workflow, but she still keeps two copies until we get home.