Beautiful photos! Now this is what you call working in "available light".

I bet these would look very good framed on a wall. I like the one with the white border!

What's a better word for "limited"?

Limited EX ... ? ... Nah, that would make it sound like a Sigma.

Very nice heads up on this. I wonder if I can get away doing this. He's bald, and I've got long hair with a beard most of the time. LOL

Regardless, I think this idea is something I might consider "copying" off of him. How to do it?

Just off the top of my head, I'm thinking of:

* Bringing a small photobook/portfolio (laminated?) of various photos and portraits, and of course, a stack of business cards (to link back) to present to people!

Beautiful thing is that I live in West London, and getting to Central is fairly easy. Now it's all about mustering up the courage to talk to people.

Let's start at the corner of Hyde Park.

I was thinking of removing the glass from the UV filter and attaching the rubber hood on the metal mount of the UV filter. Just to be *safe* !

Just bought the last stock of this lens for Pentax mount on SRS Microsystems' eBay page a few days ago. Received it this morning and I'm glad I made the purchase.

First off, the delivery was FAST. Kudos to the SRS team and ParcelForce for a painless service. Secondly, much to my surprise, the lens had the "A" setting for aperture control! This was not indicated in the eBay listing, and if it did, I think the stock would have been bought up much sooner (*hint*hint* SRS).

I am going to second the comments regarding the lens. Build quality is superb. The glass is huge! And much to my dismay, the len's hood is quite fiddly. I'm going to be getting a metal UV filter and probably attach that to the lens, then use a collapsible lens hood instead.

There's only one other eBay user who is selling the lens for below £200 at the moment, and I recommend that if you're still on the fence on this one, get it now before it starts maintaining a £250+ price (kinda like tha FA 50 1.4).

Any of the newer i3/i5/i7 will play up to 1080p effortlessly. I do second the HP promo. I think that on top of getting a cash for the trade in process, you can also get some cash back from Quidco, at 10% if I remember correctly.

Although I will recommend that you get extended warranty. Have had a few HP's fail me over the past few years.

Beautiful model, beautiful photos! The first three deserve to be printed large, framed, and shown off in a gallery somewhere.

Hit the nail on the head on this topic here. Hammer went through the floorboard.

I remembered holding back on buying a BNIB/SEALED FA 50mm 1.4 on eBay just before the K10D was announced. Just the other day I saw someone here posting a listing for a USED FA 50mm 1.4 for £250 I think. Yeah I know.

So I bought the last Samyang 85mm 1.4 that SRS was selling on eBay for £189+£5PP earlier today, since I noticed that each seller have increased their prices by at least £25 each, and it's selling for around £250+PP.

The people that support Pentax are what makes me stay loyal and faithful to the almighty K-mount.

Sure we may have some gripes, and there are the issues (K10D hotspots, K5 stains, K-x colorama edition), but the average Pentaxian is more mature and more focused on taking photos than the other brands. Well, they do have more newbies so that's probably why our "average" is better.

Of course, these being all my personal opinion.

Thank you for outing Popular Photography as a Canon fanboy's magazine.

But to be honest, Pentax is quite far from being as popular as Canon.

Canon's got Jackie Chan. Pentax should woo someone like.. I dunno... Sylvester Stallone, or Arnold Schwarzeneger, or Jet Li... Or anyone who's "bad-ass" LOL