If you pay more than 5 pounds you will be ripped off the 135-2.8 that cost me $12 came into two pieces first time the hood was extended.

I had another one years ago,can`t remember the size it was very soft as well

They were very soft to the extent that they were unusable.see if you can take a few shots with it to form your own opinion,it might be OK but don`t think that it will.

Techno a little tweaking,but Only levels and sharpening, I was refering to the difference between the lenses,at 18mm the verticals look worse than at 28mm.

No Teckno I was using 28mm prime on a rainy day, these were taken with 18-35 at about 18-22 giving more distortion I guess.

Andrew I was using apture or shutter priority, which should give me some control over DOF,I am going out using one lens all day this one hasn`t been used by me very much, only to see if it worked it might stay on the shelf.

Wednesday I went out with the 28 f2.8, in the rain, the verticals were better but photos were flat,in the future I will stick to longer focal lengths.

Dangermouse thanks for your comments.

Thanks Andrew,it shows how much I know about the subject, spoke to a friend of a friend with the intention of straightening some of the shots.

There is a problem with ME, or the lens, or the camera, or the sunshine, it was imposible to get below f18 on some of the shots,if I did it wanted shutter speeds of 1/1250 iso 400, but will try to get some of them as you suggested, the problem could be not using the lens hood,the sun was 90 degrees to the lens at times,and this lens protrodes out a little

The cricket is even money, a toss of the coin would be a good way to predict the result.

thanks Andrew.

Tried to improve my photos with a few Architectual shots for you Guys & Girls to comment on.

These were taken today at a Church in Adelaide which was built in 1880, it is heritige listed, we don`t have the history you`s have, so it is very old by our standards.

Used 18-35 on K7.


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as long as you're exposed on the right hand side of the histogram, noise should not be a problem.

Bret
I agree with your comments.

I have found that exposing to the left (which happens too often in my shots ) will give increased noise,but it gives better colours, and is easy to fix.

When under exposed it has little or no noise,but loses rich colours.

If exposure is right I have both colour and little or no noise,

I can not see any need for rules, guidelines have been established it is a good way for a friendly forum, if you were to have rules,in black and white, will we have forum PCs, that will bar you,fine you or confiscate your camera.

I think the moderator`s do a good job seeing the forum is run in a friendly manner, and it is a Pentax site.

No 2 for Sodoium Bicarbonate (Baking soda) in hot water to rinse clean or as a paste to scrub.

I havn`t used an avitar because I know, this type of thing would happen and cause me embarrassment.