Thanks Andy

I've only got the 55-300 to play with, probably won't have much time to shoot the flying with my son with me anyway.

If I were flying it I wouldn't even do that, I'd have long since ejected

Its pretty mundane software to write, lots of restrictions and testing it to death, when problems make it to the aircraft they are usually because the requirements were wrong (but I would say that :lol

Having said that when it takes off at Fairford I'll be the one wearing a hard hat.

Thanks John

I'm hoping the F-35 will hover for a bit so I won't need to be that fast

Thanks for the great shots Mike no problems with too much sky and concrete there.

I'm off to the Air Tattoo at Fairford in a few weeks time to see the F-35. I've worked on F-35 software for the last 7 years so am looking forward to seeing one in the flesh. I'm taking my 3 year old son so won't have loads of time for photographs, also with all his gear won't have much space to carry kit. I was wondering if the Sigma 10-20 would be a good option for the static displays, I'm thinking I'll want to get my son and the aircraft in the frame and will probably be restricted for space. Or would this be a recipe for lots of shots with too much sky and concrete? Would the 18-135 be better or too close up sometimes? I'll be taking the 55-300 for the longer stuff.

Cheers Steve

I had a big epson px710 with 6 inks, it was good but the ink did clog regularly, and the front paper tray seemed like a good idea but did jam a lot. It recently died and I got the xp312, only 4 inks, its much smaller, loads paper from the back which does not seem to jam as much, its also pretty quick, I quite like it, if I want good quality prints I'll get them done professionally, but for friends and family the xp312 is good enough, cheaper to run too.

Thanks Steve I was looking for a bag with a belt clip for mine, will get one of these ordered.

What about used, the used price of K3's seems to be on the wain, still get 2 years warranty:

link One for £729 here

I snagged one (K3) at £649 from SRS last weekend (no box or accessories though) Only got it from the post office yesterday, but my first impressions are good, the screen size does make a difference, and its focus accuracy seems much better than my K5.

Great picture of Sir Vincent, it was a great night.

Hope you don't mind me posting them on this thread but I got a few shots with the MX-1 at the parade. Not great shots as I had to grab them while trying not to lose my sky blue clad son in a sea of sky blue, but I was impressed by a couple of aspects of the MX-1.

First was the DOF and ability to blur a background with a small sensor:




Second was the leverage of the RAW file, in the original exposure the sky and distant appartments were pretty blown out, but the highlights were recoverable in lightroom:




Despite the team, parade, premiership trophy, and the MX-1, my son was most impressed by the ice cream mans blue sauce

Yet another vote for the 18-135. I had the Pentax 18-250, sold it to get the faster sharper Tamron 17-50 2.8. I missed the range so sold the Tamron to get the 18-135 and am very happy with it, I don't see much difference in image quality between it and the Tamron, but don't really spend much time looking at sharpness at the edges so it may be worse there.

I'd be interested to know how your testing goes with the lens profile. I had a quick look at the link Smeggy provided but haven't had chance to create anything for myself yet.