Welcome to the 16-85mm owner's club! You won't regret it. That and the 55-300 should keep you happy for a long time to come. Looking forward to seeing some photos on the forum.

Steve

Hi folks

Nothing fancy or sophisticated here, just a couple of cheerful sunflowers to bring joy and happiness to your day .

Taken with the most basic of kit, the original Q + 01 prime lens.

Enjoy!!

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Steve

No. 3 + crop for me, too.

None of the musicians look as if they are enjoying themselves...

Steve

Sell as much of the Pentax kit as you can bear to part with, buy a small, light weight camera and a couple of lenses then spend the rest of the money travelling with the new camera to places you've always wanted to visit** and never quite got round to doing it. Sooner or later age and infirmity will make travelling too difficult to bother with, but photography in some form or other will always be possible!

Steve

**Assuming, of course, Covid travel restrictions allow it.

Sold 20 in 6 months, bought ..... how many??

Steve

Thanks folks. The first flower is actually 2 interlocked flower heads. It does make for a better photo than a single head.

Steve

Beautiful landscape, beautiful pictures. No. 3 seems to jump out in 3-D, possibly because the people give a sense of scale.

Steve

A lovely set, I can almost hear the water lapping against the boats. And as LennyBloke says, gorgeous light.

Just a couple of niggles. In no. 1, the row of posts appearing out of the bottom of the frame feels uncomfortable, a bit of shoreline along the bottom would help (assuming they run out from the shore and you weren't up to the waist in water when you took the shot ). And perhaps turn no. 6 into wide-screen format by cropping off some of the top, that would emphasize the visual flow from top of trees to mountains and makes the sun bursting through the trees stand out.

Steve

And was the food served on a slate recently removed from a local roof?

Steve

From the garden yesterday afternoon with the very recently arrived (from LennyBloke) F 135mm f2.8. Well, you must try out a new toy as soon as you can, mustn't you? Mainly looking at what it can do at wider apertures. A conventional flower shot, then a couple of busy pictures with lots of out of focus areas, then a couple of views of courgette leaves. All hand held in bright light. I'm liking this lens already.

Strange thing, though - I sometimes found myself taking a shot then closing in to capture some small detail before remembering that the F 135 doesn't do macro. It's presumably because the field of view is so close to that of my Irix 150mm macro and both are f2.8 lenses. Never done it with any other lens.

Thoughts, comments etc. welcome as always.

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3. f2.8 - only 2 in-focus edges in this one (deliberate)



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Steve