Can't decide on next lens - the 50-135 is my preferred option but a touich expensive for me at the moment. I don't have anything that has a proper macro option and quite fancy playing with that. I've seen a second hand Sigma 105mm f2.8 which gets excellent write ups and its a focal length that I quite fancy using for the odd landscape.

Anybody compared the various 100mm lenses out there?

Cheers again folks - very lucky and I know it. Just back from a 'wee' visit again this morning. No colour this morning but another glorious morning to be wandering the shores of Ullswater. Bits of mist here and there and very calm - unfortunately as the skies improved I had to come home

Don't know about the PPG - first go seems to have failed so I'll probably hang back a bit again and just enjoy taking the pics.

Top one looks amazingly clean and sharp. One of those places I've always wanted to visit.

I thik that sounds like a plan. I still can't really get away with Linux - I can use it if I need to at work but when I get home I'm just too lazy.

Having looked at them again the first wasn't with the B&W110 - it was a normal exposure - got them mixed up and uploaded the first one I took from that position.

Particularly like the first one - although I think it looks more like the Mother Superior.

Thank you very much folks

Davex - I know what you mean - I would have liked to have a bit play with my filters for that but I have a wee problem. I've broken 5 in the last few months falling on various crags (and even on the odd flat bit). The only one I have left is a 0.9 soft which has a chunk broken off the top left and a chunk off the bottom right - just enough in between to cover the lens. I used to put a soft grad in upside down for the bottom but theres nowt I can do about it at the moment.

Should have added that the last one was a blend of 4 or 5 as I was struggling to get any light in the trees. Does look a bit better bigger.

Decided to take my lunch break at about 8am this morning as it looked slightly interesting down Ullswater from the office window. Gorgeous low cloud but not a lot of light hence b&w. I appreciate my processing skills are not marvellous but would appreciate any advice on how best to capture the scene in low light. All the captures were quite grainy - taken on a K-X with Sigma 10-20 - one with the white border taken with a B&W110.



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I've had a couple of issues with the XPS range in relation to cooling on the graphics - heatsink doesn't seem to be up to the job in some cases and when we took one apart the heatsink wasn't well fitted and could have done with being smoothed a bit to lie flatter.