The map is copyrighted, the logo is likely both copyrighted and trademarked. In fact given its iconic status they may well have trademarked the map as well!

However, AFAIK this doesn't make photographing either illegal, unless the purpose is to interfere with the trademark in some way. For example, despite McDonalds' famous 'arches' logo being trademarked (and McDonalds being very litigious), nobody has been sued for taking a photograph of a McDonalds despite such photographs including the trademarked logo. So taking a photograph of a London Underground station possibly doesn't infringe the trademark, but selling that photo on a tshirt would.

Of course I'm not a lawyer, and know very little about trademarks (and less than nothing about how English contract law treats conditions of entry to premises) so the above has about the same chance of being right as I have of being the next Archbishop of Canterbury

And cause horrific ghosting, if the reviews of the two Sony cameras are anything to go by.

Easy two-step solution to that:

1. Buy a Stofen Omnibounce diffuser
2. Tilt the flash head to bounce the light off the ceiling

I can also vouch for the usefulness of the Metz 48.

That's nothing. According to Lightroom the 50-150 I sent back to SRS was actually a 70-200. That would explain the poor AF accuracy

I don't think we'll see a DA* 30mm f1.4 this year. First because it would crowd out the 35 f2.4 (ignore the fact that they have different target markets), but more because I think a 30 f1.4 will only arrive if Pentax withdraw the FA Limiteds.

As it stands Pentax's entire standard lens lineup is structured to avoid stepping on the FA31's toes: that's why the hugely popular FA35 was withdrawn, and it's also why the new 35mm is relatively slow compared to the Canikon equivalents.

So I don't think Pentax would introduce a weather-sealed, silent-focusing f1.4 30mm unless they were ready to put the FA Limiteds out to pasture.

As to what I think they will do, I think the most likely is a telezoom "premium kit" counterpart to the new DA 18-135. Maybe a 100-300mm f4-5.6 DC WR?

Given the 'conventional wisdom' (never bothered checking its truth myself) that the metering in Pentax DSLRs generally underexposes by about half a stop, would this be noticeable if it did happen?

I briefly owned a Hanimex 135mm f2.8 (acquired from eBay of course), and it was dreadful. That put me off £10 lenses I have to say - though I do own a couple of (not quite that cheap) M42 lenses which get a run if I'm feeling daft

Aargh, knew there was something I'd missed out

It's a 35 Limited - IIRC all the shots were wide open except the one of the strap which was f11.

It's relatively common, but equally easy to fix each time it happens.

I don't pretend that these have great artistic merit, but I thought I'd post them anyway given the amount of pondering I did on here regarding this lens. Needless to say the Limited arrived yesterday and I took a lot of largely boring test shots with it this afternoon. None of them have been PP'd, besides whatever Lightroom does by default.

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PS: The focus issues on #2 aren't the fault of the lens, it was windy. Those on #3 are strictly PBVAS