No need to sell the A* if you sell the F* or FA* and use the money to buy a gym membership.

Steve

An excellent set. There's something about it that makes me think of the Full Monty . Nice to know that there are still parts of Sheffield that Mrs L would recognise (she grew up in the area, moved to the soft south before the steel works and coal mines were converted to shopping malls, housing estates and nature reserves).

Steve

You could challenge them as to why they deem it to be the result of accidental damage or misuse. If they cannot give a good reason and are simply hiding behind the exclusion in the T&Cs, then it is at least aguable that the exclusion is legally an unfair contract term and therefore not enforcable. Office of Fair Trading guidance (link) makes it quite clear that exclusion terms cannot be used by a company to wriggle out of their legal obligations re sale of goods and services. I've won one or two battles with companies and other organisations (including when an item failed and the vendor tried to blame it on me) after I pointed out their legal obligations and challenged them to explain how they were complying. Your local Trading Standards or Citizens Advice should be able to advise.

Good luck.

Steve

An excellent set. I'd crop out the OOF blob at the bottom left of No. 1, but apart from that I can't think of any way they could be improved .

Steve

A truly beautiful photograph. Light, composition, atmosphere spot on. So simple, so subtle - and so difficult to achieve in practice.

Steve

I'll find out next Monday, when we'll be spending the evening in a pub. He'll no doubt be putting the weight back on .

Steve

A friend has just lost 2Kg on a 5 day package tour to Spain. His wife clocked 20,000 steps in one day dragging him round tourist traps. Not the cheapest way of losing weight, though.

Steve

And very reasonably priced, too .

Good suggestion. Viewfinder focus with the M 200mm seemed much more tricky than with the (manual focus) Irix 150mm macro. I put it down to f4 rather than f2.8 but perhaps ergonomics comes into it, too - the focus ring on the Irix has always been my all time favourite .

Steve

Not all of them...

Steve

Thanks folks. It's my first and only pre-A lens so an interesting experiece for me. It won't be replacing any of my other lenses for plant and flower photography, though - not least because MF with an f4 lens and my eyesight is a bit of a challenge!

Indeed. I took several shots both before and after the rain, none of them seemed quite right and I couldn't fix it in post processing. Couldn't make out whether it was due to the flat light, the lens, camera settings or the user.

A bit of an exaggeration there - you haven't seen the ones that I'd rather people didn't see ...

Steve