Received the lens in excellent packaged condition! That was fast!

Here it is attached to my camera:



And of course an obligatory first shot, handheld:



Nice doing business with you chrissinkpen!

Excellent stuff! I must say, there are a few "close ones" on here! Thanks for sharing.

I was using the Tammy 28-300 on that day. I have to grab the photos from the main backup hard drive ifyou guys want to see it. But this pattern was already there before I stitched this up.

This is a 3 by 2 photo by the way. Stitched in Photoshop CS3.

Thanks to everyone so far for the conments. This is the second "anomaly" I was lucky (?) to witness last year. I'll post the video of the second one in the general forums later this evening.

Sensor's never been swiped. I've only ever used a rocket blower, and only found the need to do so a few times ever since owning the camera.

The pattern was already there before I stitched the photos together. Noise from the close-up image is the effect of post-processing and Genuine Fractals enlarging software (LOL).

Thermal events happening in the atmosphere? Should be a very good possibility. Might need to send this off to the government's "UFO Files".

Love the Star Trek references. Let's just hope it's not a Romulan!

Here's a photo I took of Brighton sometime last year. I must say that I fell in love with the place, and will definitely try to visit it many more times this year.




Now take notice of the "anomaly" in the upper center part of the image. Notice that it actually is part of the entire sky.

Here's the original photo for comparison:




The photo is actually comprised of several images stitched together. Checking the original individual images show that it's always been there.

Can anyone tell me what in the world are those things?

Again, here's the "anomaly", close up:




Thanks for looking, and hope to hear your thoughts on this!

#3, #10, #11, #14 and then I just stopped counting. Excellent images!

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I'm one of the people that like a heavier/bigger camera. Maybe because I have big hands, but having the grip on my GX-10 gives me more comfort, and less strain on my hands. Although I have to say that it gives me a sore neck after a long day of usage.

Aim high, aim for the sky. I think there's a "mint pentax macro" on eBay that has not been sold because it has something wrong with it. Nowhere near like this issue here, but calling it mint is rather pushing it.

Thanks for the heads up, I will certianly do! I've been looking for a good condition copy of this exact same lens. Counting the hours now.