Very good.

Yes, internal reflection, after being refracted on entry and scattered from internal and surface defects. It clearly doesn't have Pentax HD coating.

I wonder what it would be like with coloured light, different colours from different directions?

Steve

Some parts of St Aines upon Thames must be posh - my sister-in-law's parents live there...

Steve

Is the sender of the original image absolutely sure that this is the original size of the JPEG? Or are they assuming that it is because they haven't themselves done anything to resize it? E-mail can sometimes reduce the size of a JPEG, it depends on what e-mail software Is used and what options are sets (it's done by default to keep the total message size to a minimum). I've had this problem when family members send photos direct from phone and the photo is embedded in the e-mail.

Steve

Finishing some work for which I've already been paid, then getting it to client before he's made redundant. A strange situation...
And photographing a penny at ever increasing magnification. Also strange.

How are you??
Been wondering the same myself. Almost PM'd her a couple of times. OK, will do it now...
Taking whatever comes, nothing planned, nothing expected, no politician's dates believed, hoping for the best but expecting the worst. That way, I won't be disappointed and may even be peasantly surprised.

Steve

Reminds me of Ansel Adams - and you can't get better than that . Had to get the book out and check. Yep, there's something of the spirit of 'Oak Tree, Rain, Sonoma County, California, c. 1960' (and others) about it. And you've handled the colours beautifully, which AA didn't have to worry about, of course .

And thanks for prompting me to get the book of AA's pictures off the shelf. Always worth doing but rarely done!

Steve

I've held back from commenting until I'd worked out why I like this. And now I know. It's the combination of sharpness in the centre, the slabs (grave stones?) in the distance above and the flowerless space below. They seem to complement each other and draw the eye into the centre. Scroll down to cut off the slabs and to my eyes it becomes just a largely fuzzy and unstructured picture of daffodils. Scroll up again to include the slabs and it all works again. Well spotted!

Steve

About 15 years ago I bought a used *ist (the film version) with kit lens for about £150. More a matter of having the last model of film camera that Pentax would make than attempting to find a bargain. Price must have dropped a lot since then. Or has it now become a desirable, scarce curiosity with price to match? (I don't care, I'm keeping it!:mrgreen

Steve

Does 'in production' mean cameras are coming off the production line right now and 'discontinued' mean 'we've turned the production line off'? Or does 'in production' mean 'we might make another batch some time' and 'discontinued' mean 'we won't be making another batch ever again'? If it's batch production, sales are slow and batches therefore few and far between, then as far as the consumer is concerned there would be little practical difference between 'in production' and 'discontinued' until stocks have run down. And if sales are really slow and stocks healthy, that could take a long time...

Steve

+1. A financial advisor I once knew told me that if you're turned down or don't like the offer one week, try again next week. By that time, they might want someone like you.

Steve

I certainly do like! A joy to see such lovely, restful, pictures, including some that look like they were created from unpromising conditions.

A fine antidote to the idea that you need to spend huge amounts of money on lenses to get really good photos. And confirmation, as always, that a picture is created by the photographer's vision and ability rather than their photographic tools.

Steve