Thinking about it, it cannot be the camera either as photos taken before the firmware update report the lens correctly. The only way I can account for it is that the lens data was good all along, but the exif reading software had a hiccup in it.

I haven't seen any weatherproof claims for it, so I would assume not.

I'm starting to get paranoid here. Up to now I had been happy enough with my 150-500, but now I'm starting to wonder. It isn't quite as good as my DA*50-135, but then I didn't expect it to be. Trouble is, as a fairly inexperienced snapper, I do not have the confidence to decide that the problem is with the lens, not me.

An aside - it was well known that EXIF data reported Sigma lenses wrongly, and it had been suggested that this was down to limitations in Sigma's soft/firmware. Mine used to be reported an a 70-210 HSM. I have just looked again, and it is now being reported correctly. There have been no updates to the lens, but I have updated the K20 to V1.03.

Indeed it is. Absolutely excellent.

There is something curious going on with the links on this forum. If I select "quote" on the first post, I can see what Yves wrote. If I copy the url from his text and paste it into the address bar it works correctly. If however, I click on the link, for some reason his url is prefixed by www.pentaxuser.co.uk/.

I have had similar when I could not get onto SRS's website and posted a link to it so people could check it.

Mea culpa Max. I had a silver moment and addressed the post to Craig.


They seem to be drying up - I cannot reserve one any more.

One thought, Woodworm said on page five of this thread that he was not sure whether he liked his. Might be worth offering to cross his palm with silver.

Kudos

Oh hang on a minute - I've just remembered what that means...

NO prize

Can't you get to the shop Max? It's in Cornwall St IIRC. That's what I did - reserved for in-store pick up then dropped in and had a chuckle at the advice they were giving.

I picked mine up this afternoon. I do like the balance with it on, and fair play to whoever thought up the idea of making a stowage for the body plug - nice one

I did however hit one pitfall. I assumed that the on/off switch was a duplicate of the one on the body. It took a few moments to work out that it only switched the grip itself.

Is it an aircraft (Spitfire PR?) reconnaissance lens John?