The 15 Ltd is just a joy to use - compact so always in my bag/pocket and like all the Ltds beautifully constructed. If you spend some time on the '15mm rules my mind' thread on the 'other' site you'll see the kinds of results it produces. As the guys say wonderful colour rendition and legendary flare resistance. I'd have said one of the disadvantages for landscape work was the protruding, fixed lens hood making fitting filter systems difficult, but Gareth seems to have a system (which adaptor do you use, Gareth? I've been meaning to look into that...)

I've no regrets shelling out the ackers for the 15 Ltd - it's on my 'sell a child before this lens' list. I don't have the 16-45 so can't compare with that, but I do have the 12-24 which, cracking lens though it is, I'm thinking of selling because of overlap with the 15 Ltd and (try as I might) I really can't justify having both.

At the risk of being a complete obsessive bore

I've just found out Sgurr Dhomhnuill is actually the 17th highest mountain in Britain link... relatively speaking .

So definitely a 'Tim'

Thanks Shaun - much appreciated. Whilst there I tried (with 'mixed' results :shock some Puma-esque log exposure seascapes well... I'll post when processed.


That's just a brilliant philosophy I'd happily subscribe to. And at last the secret of your moniker is revealed

Sorry - posts crossed

That's my understanding from talking to a local

Thanks for the comments, very much appreciated

Yes - these snaps are of the corbett 'Donalds Peak' north of Loch Linnie - not the munroe above Ballachulish. Confusion possibly because I described it as a mountain, whereas any ful no that it has to be over 3000 ft to be a mountain....

Because it's a corbett we saw absolutely no one else on or around the mountain the two times we went up or close, and there was no real path to the top. 87 ft higher and it would be crawling with folk.

These are great, and #2 is a bit special IMHO

Yes - there are some amazingly positive reviews of this lens out there. Be interesting to see what you think in real use !

Sgurr Dhomhnuill in Ardgour in the West Highlands of Scotland is a contender for "Britain's most difficult to pronounce mountain". It's 'Donald's Peak' in sasanach, which is easy enough, but I'll be damned if I can pronounce the gaelic (click on the sound button at linkif you want to hear how a native pronounces it. I've listened 17 times and still can't make head nor tail of it )

Anyways, I spent last week in a cottage with great views of this mountain, and I thought it might be interesting to take a series of photos through the week from different locations, it in different moods etc.


#1 Evening cloud



#2 Perched boulder I



#3 The Ardgour Hills



#4 Valley light



#5 Cloud bank over Dhomhnuill



#6 Perched boulder II



#7 Summit lochan



#8 Reflection




I also have three days worth of photos of driving rain and low cloud, in which Sgurr Dhomhnuill is invisible but in there somewhere. But I thought they'd be of less interest

Extraordinary

Agreed !

+1 . Really striking image.