The Irix 15 or Samyang 14 are great ultrawide lenses. The Samyang is really cheap but won't take screw in filters... after some deliberating I've decided I can live with that but give it some thought. Samyang do a filter holder system that takes 150mm square filters for about £25.

The Irix looks fabulous and I wonder if you'd feel the need to 'upgrade' to the 15-30mm wide zoom at all!

The Tamron 28-75mm might be worth looking at as an alternative to the 24-70mm standard zoom.

Prefer the mono version; very nice conversion.

Beautiful image Roger, it's quite sculptural.

Isn't your distance-to-subject the key thing in determining 'perspective'? I dunno, I always feel like Father Dougal here when this topic comes up

Maybe. It's not really worth getting bogged down in, IMHO.

Sorry to dredge this up from a few pages back, but yeah... I couldn't decide between the Samyang 14mm and the 20mm; but soon realised that there was plenty of resolution from the Samyang to be able to shoot in 'crop mode' and have a 2-lenses-in-one solution. Admittedly I am not doing this often, because after enjoying the 14mm ultrawide view, 20mm feels a bit pedestrian.

I thought you'd switched absolutely ages ago, Don! Yeah, it's a no brainer if you shoot video.

A K10D going unsold in the classifieds got me nostalgic for my K10D... I actually preferred the ergonomics to the other Pentax DSLRs I've owned, and I always found the image quality very nice.

You're lucky to have all this within striking distance. Especially the rum n raisin ice cream.

I do fancy one of those little Qs.

Like these very much, Fanoir Beach is my favourite.