Double discount means the end of Pentax so I can easily resist ... until the next double discount day (possibly Black Friday).

Still wrestling with trying not to buy the 15-30mm from SRS which has been made harder by the released specs of the new Canon mirrorless body.

It's a bit busy in Bournemouth this weekend

Yes, doesn't work well with Sigma HSM either.

I'm still undecided ... I have until Sunday though.

Depends where you intend selling the kit to be honest.

If on here then I tend to look at Ebay to find an average sale price and then go for there (allowing for a bit of wriggle room due to lack of fees, ease of transaction etc). Trouble with past sale prices on a forum is that sometimes a seller will make a guess and value their item at a low price (for instance a DA* 300mm f/4 recently) and then prospective buyers who saw it will remember that and expect to pay the same.

I have never got any teleconverter, bar the Pentax 1.4x WR, to autofocus reliably with SDM on Pentax bodies. I have the Kenko 1.5x and although it has the required contacts for SDM it hunts back and forward and rarely locks focus.

Interestingly it used to work a lot better until Pentax issued a firmware update (some time ago) when they released their own 1.4x WR converter.

Another bump and a couple of pictures from this morning. As with most wildlife pictures these are fairly heavy crops, please click on pictures to get a decent idea of IQ. Shot count likely to go up over the weekend as I may take it to Bournemouth air show.


Cormorant by Mike.Pursey, on Flickr


Egret by Mike.Pursey, on Flickr


Grey Heron by Mike.Pursey, on Flickr

Hmmm, LINK - £1044 with 2 year warranty.

I'm sure Chris has been having a peek on here

I do ... but I have also promised myself I wouldn't spend anymore cash on Ricoh until they bring out a camera with better AF tracking.


But then this would be for the K-1 and mostly landscapes which means it doesn't need fast AF and therefore shouldn't really count ... should it?

I must admit I hadn't looked to see if it had gone up.

Hopefully the price will have increased by the time I get home from work.