It's a very expensive lens, so maybe worth getting a quote for repair, but it will be a specialist job.

However, in the meantime, some special effect shots may be the way to go. How does it handle street lighting and other low light shots? Perhaps there's something interesting could be done with dramatic landscapes?

I've modified that e-mail to prevent spam.

If it's the same Simply Electronics that deals on Amazon, many members here will have already bought items from them. I seem to recall buying a 40mm f/2.8 Limited lens, with no problems at all.

The lens you mention is marked in stock, so I would renew efforts to contact them and if that fails I presume you used a Credit card, so contact the card company for a refund.

Hope that helps and that your lens has merely been diverted by an inefficient carrier.

I've now looked at the article linked to. It's a symptom of how things can get done on the internet, lots of graphs and technical arguments to show something can't be any good, before it's actually been tried.

We can't actually draw any conclusions yet about the K-5 IIs, we haven't seen one. The images shown in the other link do look very promising. Likewise, we can't compare with what happens with a very old Kodak DSLR and the Nikon D800E as they have very different sensors.

So we shall see, but I'm pretty sure that the Pentax engineers have seen the results and hence the new variation, so we should feel encouraged to expect something interesting.

Well, looking at the roof picture using the K-5 IIs, it looks pretty impressive.

Very well done, a great achievement.

Probably few users try every program until they are familiar with it and then try another, and another and another....

Having found and mastered one they are more likely to stick with it aren't they?

It's best to arrive early in Whitby and then there will be plenty of parking. Later in the day things can get slightly congested....

Please make a report, so IT can pick this up.

I've had no problems since changing to Firefox, so might be worth a try.

The ones at Martin Mere were not so clean: