It certainly is a combination - great for walking about as pretty light, but top notch performance.
Thank you for the comments.

A very nice set, thank you for sharing. I like the poppies and the 'smoke room', my pick is # 4.

Busy day yesterday. Welcome to the forum, the wet side of the pond!

Nice to see it restored to it's former self. The dates must reflect the RAF Base being here up to 1992?
This morning with KP and DA* 11-18mm F2.8, all at shot at f11 and forgetfully at ISO 400 from yesterday.

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3. with less distortion.



4. On Mountbatten Pier, pic is straight it's the pier that is leaning!

Morning walk on a windy grey day, no great sky but hope you enjoy the scenery. KP and DFA 28-105 WR.

1. Spidery looking.



2. Jennycliffe, Plymouth. Could barely stand up to take this shot, old tree is permanently bent.



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5. One corner of Stamford Fort.



6, People live in the old Officer's quarters?

Yes you may, MHO is it's sharp, defo sharper than my old film era lens, and it's fairly light in weight, very handy being a zoom. Comparing it to a Star * series I have not done, but zooming in in PostProcessing (pixel peeping) I have no complaints, very sharp I would say. It's probably been compared on the other site. I have a DFA 100 f2.8 Macro WR which is another sharp lens, and I think it's definitely as good as this. I'm no expert or old digital person so I hope another on here will offer a more descriptive review. Cheers.

Ah, I have an aversion to paying anything monthly (or otherwise LOL).....money not a problem strangely can't off load it anywhere (must buy more lens). Re. Adobe, I never tie myself into a sole outfit e.g. Microsoft/Apple/Adobe etc. There are (nearly) always free offerings on open source/linux etc.
Oh using PC.

Nice work.
Not to take over your thread......sorry.....but I have played with another shot of mine this time with an eye on the histogram (not that it matters?) but here is one where I managed to keep the histo fairly 'neat' (hopefully) no interesting foreground though. a Single shot as always for me.
CC's welcome as any helpful hints/tips, I did try unsuccessfully to remove the somewhat brightness out...

Star Reduction must be the same? I checked on the RT site and found this, played on my monitor and could see it working - clever stuff, a 'must use' perhaps on Astro shots;

"The effects of this tool are only visible at a preview scale of 1:1 or more. Use a detail window (click on the Window-add.png icon under the main preview panel) to inspect a part of the image, or zoom the main preview to 100% (also called 1:1) Magnifier-1to1.png.

Suppresses salt-and-pepper noise - sudden white and black pixels, which remind one of salt and pepper sprinkled over a photo. This is done after demosaicing.

Whereas salt-and-pepper noise is typically just white or black, hot pixels can be of a pure, saturated color, while dead pixels are black. Hot and dead pixels occur for a very different reason than salt-and-pepper noise and should be handled using the Hot/Dead Pixel Filter, which works before demosaicing.

The slider adjusts the threshold which must be exceeded for the suppression to be applied. "

Rawtherapee; it's cheap = free But allegedly has more over other PP packages, I wouldn't know as I've never used 'owt else, being new to Digital. It is a bit geeky IMO but as I run only Linux it suits me LOL.
If you go with RT it's a long learning curve, see Andy Astbury on Youtube for tips, lots on line at rawtherapee.com. It's also keyboard fiddly until you get familiar with it, apparently not as easy as the old PP packages eg. LR etc.

Not saying my version is any better, a different flavour? colour/less contrast/ just playing......