mikew wrote:
If you'll forgive em I would expect the image to be way sharper than this. It could be that in PP and resizing it's lost some sharpness but I find the 10-20 to be very sharp.

I like the way you used the ropes to lead in and the shape of the boat working with them but I suspect it might have been more dramatic if you had moved a little to the left and got lower. That would then have moved the line on the boat away from the shoreline in the background and minimised the space on the left (I think which at the moment is flat dead space).

I hope it was set at 10mm

Mike

dougf8 wrote:
Good lines taking the eye over the image.

But were the reds really that muted?

Dangermouse wrote:
Pentax-M 28mm f3.5. Buy one now, perfect focal length for APS-C and incredibly sharp even wide open.

JonSchick wrote:
I think some of the older lenses stand up remarkably well compared to their modern counterparts. I enjoy using them for the reasons that Jon mentioned above - they make you stop and think, and the proportion of decent shots increases as a result.

Ian, I don't know what you think of your 35mm f2.8, but I have one and consider it to be something of an unsung hero - it does exactly what I need of it and produces very good results time after time. I'd second others' opinions of the 50mm/1.7 and 20mm/4, and would add the 135/3.5 as a decent quality and very cost-effective medium telephoto.