Perhaps we'll see some images of your recent paint job now.

Will do.

I was tempted by your MZ-S + grip, but as many of my lenses have no aperture ring, it wouldn't get used.

I've almost got over selling mine

I flew in one many years ago. A "Flights of Fantasy" deal paid for by my wife's parents.

The flight lasted about an hour and we hit Mach 2 somewhere over the Atlantic.

I've flown a lot over the years, but that experience was just the best.

The photo's are all in a suitcase somewhere waiting to be scanned.

Thanks for all the helpful replies so far. I think I've made my mind up to sell them. Not sure about the 500mm. As hefty1 noted, it's the only one I haven't got covered by others. That said, my DA* 300mm + 1.7T/C is a very good combination that comes very close. Maybe it's close enough for the few times I'll use it.

Also, chances are on the occasion I might need the 500mm, it'll have been left at home.

That'll be my dilemma for next week Danny. I have all three FA Ltd's in the highly desirable titanium colour (some lesser informed sources call them silver:lol, and I use them very rarely. I don't think I've ever used the 43mm Ltd, though it was bought in used condition, the other 2 were bought new and have appreciated quite a bit I think.

Oddly enough, the lens came from SRS as part of a trade-in deal for my 135-600mm.

Thanks for the idea though, another avenue I hadn't considered.

Imagine the dilemma I'm having fixing a price on it then

I can find none on ebay, past or present. I'll have to trawl all the resellers used pages now.

Anybody have any ideas as to it's value? Assume it's in very good condition with only a few signs of normal, not excessive, use. It has a few specks of dust inside but nothing alarming. Otherwise it's in very good nick.

Good luck with this project, it's one I would be interested in seeing the results of.

For this photo though, I think I would have included the whole of the bench, the whole of the foreground statue, and perhaps applied some perspective correction to see if it improved the general look.

Excellent point John, and something that I hadn't considered. Thank you.

I'm in a quandary.

I have a few lenses that I don't use very much at all but they are either quite rare or expensive, or both.

The lenses in question are SMCP-A 24mm 1:2.8, SMCP 50mm 1:1.2, SMCP-F 50mm 1:1.7, SMCP-FA 135mm 1:2.8, SMCP 500mm 1:4.5.

I have DA* zooms covering the whole range except the 500mm and I have the DA* 55mm 1:1.4 SDM which is almost as fast as the 50mm 1:1.2. I find myself using these zooms most of the time for the convenience of compositional adjustments and to my eyes the difference in IQ of the images from these zooms compared to the primes is indistinguishable.

Given this situation, what would you do? Sell, or keep them?