I got up early this morning to go to the coast again, and I HAVE A PUNCTURE

I went to a local resevoir recentley to photograph some birds, when i got ther a near hurricane was blowing and the damn things were bobbing up and down on the waves nothing was in focus, or in shot!!!!!

I went to the coast when the weather was supposed to be windy to get some earth stopping pictures of waves, and I found a millpond!!!!!!

I got ready to capture the lunar eclipse, it was cloudy as hell all night!!!!!

You'd be paranoid too if everything was against you!!!!!!!!!!!

I would expect overall the Pentax to be superior to the Sigma, but not by much. Therefore the cost might be the final decider for most people. It was for me, but then I'm not rich

I am delighted with my Sigma 10-20mm which is about £150 cheaper than the Pentax 12-24mm. As I have said on other threads, the first of these I had was replaced because of a front focusing problem, but Sigma identified the problem straight away when I sent them some sample shots and my supplier replaced the lens by return post. Brilliant service all round and the new lens is great
I know nothing about the Pentax 12-24mm, but did not consider it on cost grounds.

Hello and welcome,

I joined after a similar length of break from photography. I bought a K100D super in November and started with jpgs as you are intending to do. When I got to grips with the camera a bit I progressed to RAW earlier this month, and have begun a new adventure with post processing. My, what a big field that is, but I have made some pleasing (to me) images.

So, good luck.

Nice shots though I'm not sure what's being said "no" to.

Do you really need all those shades?

In general I would avoid converters. In my experience I have always had better results from cropping an image of any given lens than that produced by a converter.

It's not the camera that matters! This says it all. We can bang on about this lens and that exposure etc etc, but if you see it and catch that moment nothing else matters.

No. 2 should have the post in 'cos that is the point of what the hawk is doing. It doesn't matter to me if it is not in focus.

That's almost as sharp as a macro lens. How much cropping?