By 'eck! Spring comes late in Huddersfield!

Lovely shades of yellow. Created by nature, recorded by you. An inspired double act.

Steve

Yearning for the Yorkshire Dales?
You're meant to use your hands, not your knees...

Steve

Thanks. Good point, it's definitely worth considering ... particularly when you're shooting single handed with the other holding a lead with a dog at the far end.

Steve

Very nice. There's a lot of beauty in common things.

Give it a few years for worms to turn over the soil and the cowslips to seed. You might find it's even better than before.

Steve

That's getting into NASA territory .

And I'm not sure it would fit into a pocket...

Steve

The reason I mentioned the F 50 1.7 is because I've got it. DA35 - yes, I've also got that one and it's certainly light weight. As far as I understand, one of the issues with using K mount lenses on a Q is that the high density of pixels in the Q's tiny sensor is very demanding on the resolution of the lens. You can't tell whether it's good enough without trying it (unless someone else has tried it already, of course). Trying out my (small number of) smallish primes on a Q certainly appeals to the techy side of me!

Steve

Thanks John, I hadn't thought of Pye. First thing is to check whether they are still working ...

Nothing on Amazon UK, nor on the SRS website (or other dealers in my bookmarked list). The only ones on e-Bay appear to be in Japan and I'm not exactly enthusiastic about international purchases at the moment.

I'm now wondering whether a Q - K mount adapter (if they are still around...) with F 1.7 prime would be OK. Right reach, definitely pocketable, but not zoom. Decisions, decisions...

Steve

Very good photos of an interesting looking bird. Does it have the yellow dangly bits all year or is it a seasonal thing to attract the opposite sex?

Steve

Yesterday evening my much loved Q 06 lens died suddenly while doing what it liked most, taking photographs.

Death was sudden and accompanied by strange whirring and grinding noises. Ability to focus, both AF and MF, was lost. A second opinion from another Q body confirmed that recovery was impossible. The symptoms are similar to other sudden deaths since the early days of production and reported in another forum. A post mortem examination will therefore not be carried out unless an ever increasing 'to do' list is completed and I am totally bored. The cause of death is believed to be specific to the 06 and pose no risk to other related lenses.

I will really, really miss being able to carry an f2.8 tele-zoom in the pocket. So what next? Options seem to be:
1. Learn to live without the pleasures of a pocketable tele-zoom and continue to enjoy the Q's with the remaining lenses (01, 02, fish-eye and reversed 24mm for macro).
2. Scour the planet for a used 06, accepting that it might die in the same way before long.
3. Try to find someone who can repair it, but I've not been able to find anyone reporting that their dead 06 has been repaired.
4. Look at other systems, although 'pocketable', 'telephoto' and 'f2.8' don't seem to appear on the same page.

Your thoughts, comments and suggestions, please, ladies and gentlemen.

Steve

No dandelion, daisy, buttercup or clover flowers now - what are the bees going to do??

Steve