Amazon: Black KP £554.37; Silver KP £800.97; Silver KP + grip £997.97
SRS: Black KP £949.00; Silver KP + grip £799 ('free' grip)

I don't understand either. But I'd expect Amazon's prices to be determined by a computer algorithm that uses things like supply price, recent purchases, stock level etc., and the algorithm might be a bit wobbly when small numbers are involved. SRS's pricing algorithm is presumably in Chris' head, from what he says on this forum it depends strongly on the supply price, and not being a computer Chris doesn't change prices at the drop of a hat.

Ours is not to reason why, ours is just to look and buy.... (or in my case, not buy).

Steve

It was next door's home brew after walking the dog this evening. And very good it was, too. Still fermenting in the bottle (hence a magnificant head!) and the 'extra hops' gave it plenty of flavour. He's brewer of choice for the hops that have just started a growth spurt at the bottom of my garden. Hopefully the lockdown will be over by the time our combined efforts reach completion, so we can sit down together to enjoy and congratulate ourselves on a fine product.

Steve

Excellent pictures from your 45mm f4 prime...

OK, it's a bit bulky, but If you had a purpose-built prime capable of producing pictures that good, would you really want to part with it??

Steve

And fine photo that reminds me why I couldn't part with either the K20D or 16-45 even though neither get much use now. Although the K3 + 16-85 is certainly more versatile, the K20D + 16-45 used within their limitations are capable of producing superb pictures, as you show.

Steve

Sorry to hear about that. The failure seems similar to the way a couple of (other brand) travel zooms have failed for family members. The manager of my local camera shop says it's a fairly common problem with travel zooms, little plastic bits fail in something that's built to a price. And although the 06 is good optically, its plastic body isn't as robust as the 01, 02 or even 03. That may indicate something about the internals .

Steve

Hawthorn is in bloom round here, which reminded my of David Hockney's paintings of hawthorn. But he had it easy - he could paint what he saw in his mind. Those of us who use cameras have to use what's on the tree. Here are a few from the last few days taken with K3 + FA77 at about f2 and low sun. Wide aperture, narrow DOF, hand held, with dog on lead poses interesting challenges...

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Steve

Beautiful photograph of an amazing creature.

Will you be doing macro NMR scans to record the transformations inside the pupa?

Steve

Thanks folks. Textiles, shreddies - interesting how the mind makes links to totally different things. When I was editing them, 'knitting' came to mind.

There's a lot more detail in the full res images but not quite enough for a 12 ft print . Perhaps take a walk with the Da*300mm, tripod and no dog next time the field is ploughed...

Steve

Nicely done.

Amazing that my 1977 edition of 'The Birds of Britain and Europe' has these as a bird of southern Europe and beyond. 40 years later, they're in Warwickshire.

Steve

Walking the dog yesterday, put the camera to the eye, noticed that my glasses felt a bit odd. One of the pads that rests on the nose was missing. It was on the side that's pressed against the viewfinder. Turns out it had broken off at the narrow bit that connects to the frame. I'm wondering whether frequent pressing of the viewfinder on that side was the cause. Has anyone else had the problem?

Steve