Don't think of it as lens ownership, but custodianship. Why have $$$ sat in the bank, slowly being eroded by inflation and low interest rates, when you could have a lens you can use.

Thanks, glad it worked. Wasn't sure if you needed a Google+ account to view them or not. Google+ looks quite good in that you can upload up to 1GB of images free, but images under 2040 pixels wide do not count towards that total.

However I just tried uploading a full size image to Google+, and it was resized with similar softening and compression that you get on Photobucket. Flickr is better in this area, producing nice sharp resized images at various sizes which are handy for linking to.

Flickr account renewal time is here, so I am just testing whether Google+ works as well for linking images! Can everyone see them?

It's free delivery if you buy via the ebay shop, if you buy from them direct via the website the delivery charges are there to see.

Thanks Shaun. A good fair review, with an endearingly cheesy attempt at injecting humour!

I played with a K30 in Jessops today. They got the ergonomics spot on IMHO; even better than my K7. I played with the focus peaking too, seems to work quite well - and liveview feels more usable generally.

The second version looks A LOT more convincing!

Using a sunset as a replacement sky, when the ambient lighting in the foreground doesn't match that, looks odd IMHO. It's probably just my personal taste, but I'd prefer to see a more measured tweak to the shadow levels and a slight contrast enhancement to the sky.

That's the sort of high-precision thinking I like! When I think of messing about calibrating the monitor, suddenly doing the washing up starts to look appealing...

I have the same issue, PC monitor is OK, everything looks too bright on the Mc.

£249 is a great price. With the warranty in place, I'd bite their arm off. Currys are also very decent about it if you change your mind a few days after purchase.

Can we reverse engineer (full frame) sensors into old MX bodies? People would be queuing round the block for one!