Newspapers and Canes for me too - especially canes. Another great set Andrew. Beautifully sharp

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I agree - proper fantastic, I was looking at these two links myself yesterday... made me immediately head to ebay to check out the price of bellows... maybe next summer....

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Cheers Paul! It's another cracking shot!

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Ah Wow! Pentax has truly gone inter-galactic!

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That's a beautiful shot Paul - and beautiful creature. Would love to see one up close like this myself.

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It's a corker. Does it officially qualify as the longest-range shot ever posted on here? must do surely. Top stuff

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Thanks everyone for the comments - much appreciated. I think that the FA50 may stay on the camera for a little while! (maybe I'll have to get a K5 for my other lenses).

Lennardinio - the focus can be adjusted on the K7 through one of the options in the menu - in effect you can either adjust the focus for the whole camera (i.e. for all lenses) or for any given individual lens. Taking the second option, the camera remembers the specific lenses for which adjustments have been made and applies them whenever that lens is attached.

I had always thought that my FA50 didn't quite behave how I wanted it to so I tested it by taking some shots along a tape measure and it looked as if the focus point on shots was a little forward of where I was focussing through the viewfinder, so made a quick adjustment and it was sorted!

Thanks again all

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Nice set Paul, like other commentators I really like the last two! very sharp and punchy. Great stuff.

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Hello all. I've had a mad week at work this week so I was glad to get out and about early yesterday with the camera. I thought I would try and get some slightly impressionist autumnal shots by using a wide aperture to get a nice blur going. I used my FA 50 which has disappointed me a little in the past at it's widest aperture, but this week I adjusted the focus for that lens with my K-7 and now it has become something of a revelation Turning into my favourite lens overnight (I am so fickle). Anyway, here's a handful of yesterday's shots - all at either f1.4 or f1.6 I think, and all with the FA 50:

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I hope you like them. They were all taken in the Isabella Plantation within Richmond Park, where the leaves are turning a whole range of beautiful colours. Any C&C welcome.

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Hi Greg, That's a toughie to answer... I have the 16-50 and the 50-135 DA* zooms, and a couple of the DA ltd primes (although not the FA primes you refer to in your post - which have a rep for being truly top notch). My observations are (for what they are worth)... (1) I have yet to be disappointed by the 50-135 zoom; it performs fantastically to my mind. (2) I would not quite go so far in my opinion of the 16-50, although I do find it better than the (admittedly first generation) 18-55 which it replaced. However, it could be that I am just not so good with wide angles rather than a failing with the lens. In both cases the SDM focussing has worked fine and I have not suffered any reliability issues. Both lenses I acquired as ex-display from SRS on ebay. (3) I have never been disappointed with the primes either - and especially rate the 21mm ltd - it gets a lot more use than the 16-50 zoom, and furthermore I tend to use my prime lenses generally more in any case - my feeling is that using a prime makes me think about the picture more and I rather like the fact that I have to move around to try and get the shot I want rather than being static and zooming in and out... although I certainly take the point about continually swapping lenses... My 'basic' kit which I lug about as 'general purpose' is: 21mm DA ltd, 35mm macro DA ltd (fantastic lens!), DA* 50-135 and DA* 200...

In terms of out and out quality I would say that the DA* zooms are up there - especially the 50-135, although you won't quite get the wide apertures of the FA primes at those focal lengths (2.8 is not bad though...:wink

A real conundrum. Don't know if any of this helps at all...?

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