Hood. And filter if muck / dust / salt water is flying at the lens

Recently I tend to mainly use my DA15 with the excellent F 35-70mm, sometimes with the M 75-150mm or K 135mm f2.5 for longer shots. The DA15 and F 35-70 make a great compact kit - the lens that's not on the camera can go in your pocket quite comfortably, but I tend to stow it in a compact camera bag. The DA15 takes great wide angle shots, particularly street scenes I'm finding... the FL is just conducive to it.

The F 35-70 does people, architectural details, landscapes, semi-macros... it really is versatile! And sharp.

The K 135mm is superb for isolating people in a crowd, and has very pleasing rendering. A bugger to focus wide open and has greenish fringing to bokeh, which I have learnt how to remove or otherwise tolerate it as part of the lens's character. The M 75-150 is obviously more versatile, and is great at any F stop or FL, but not quite a beautiful in the bokeh department (it's a stop slower).

I also have a DA35 f2.4 and F50 f1.7 which I use for portraits and people shots, especially indoors.

Currently on the reserve benches, I have a Tamron 17-50 - reliably sharp and fast zoom, Sigma 10-20 - for ultrawide urban shots and the odd landscape, a Sigma Ultrawide II 24mm prime - sharp, fast(ish) and good for semi macro shots and indoor shots, the Pentax F 70-210mm which is excellent but somehow not as interesting as my faster older lenses, and oh yes, the good old kit zoom, good for work shots when quality isn't paramount, or for when it's raining hard!

That's a lorra lorra lenses and some of them will surely be hitting the classifieds soon!

That's fair enough. Although I would expect certain instances to normally be overlooked, where comments on the seller or item are positive and such comments provide a free bump.

That's an interesting breakdown, very logical. However FF bodies typically have a much longer production run than apsc cameras. Maybe four years compared to about one year? So thats actually maybe 8000 units over the product lifespan... And that doesn't take into account the overall lift in sales which a FF flagship possibly might help deliver. (Is it coincidence that the to three brands DO offer FF bodies?)

Nikon obviously don't agree with you on your first sentence... Their forthcoming 'pro' FF body is rumored to be 24mp, and the D700 replacement 36mp.

If it's done by PM there's very little anyone could do about it! There probably are (rarely) occasions where items are very easily confused and one costs much more than the other - SHQ vs DG teleconverters for example. If a seller seemed to be exploiting the confusion, I might think it appropriate to PM a newbie who was falling into the trap and say something like 'do check with the seller that it's actually the SHQ version, because the listing is unclear'. Seasoned members, I would assume, would double check for themselves if there was the slightest doubt

However I would say it's still up to the buyer to decide what they're willing to pay... not a snooping 3rd party. As Japers says, it's not hard to check the going rate.

Surely if country of origin is important to you, you can ask before agreeing to buy the item? But I do think it would be nice if users displayed their geographical location, for all sorts of other reasons besides.

Warning potential buyers might seem well meaning, but you often seem to get people doing a google search and then saying 'Hey, (insert dubious grey importers / online scam merchants here) have this item for £xxx new, so your price is way too high!!'

Prospective buyers get put off needlessly, and sellers get very annoyed by this. So I think it's probably best to keep out of it entirely, or, perhaps, start a separate thread as a general discussion of prices. I would encourage buyers to consult the forum collective if they aren't sure.

It is quite obviously (to me!) bad form to post comments about the price of an item in a thread. If the estate agents were showing people round your next door neighbour's house, would you pop over and say 'ooh, they've been selling for a lot less than that on this street! And there's subsidence as well'....

If you think that the item is too highly priced, and you are feeling 'public spirited', why not PM the seller, who then has the option of reducing the price, or not, as he choses. The compromise between selling quickly and selling at the best price is a choice sellers should be free to make without interference, IMHO.

Try focussing in Live View to rule out focus error.

The second shot looks noticeably colder, I'm not sure what caused that!

It should definitely outperform the 16-50, most noticeably wide-open, then levelling off towards f8. The 35mm f2.4 is a lens which wants to be used at or near maximum aperture, that is where it shines, with lovely sharpness, contrast and smooth bokeh.

I think Clare makes a good point - like it or not, Matt's site had his personal stamp on it; and of course he should retain that going forward, rather than listen too hard to our personal preferences about websites and marketing. After all it's Matt's creativity which attracts his clients to his work.