agree with David Storm K5-11s + 90- 105mm Macro if it is affordable ,these lenses are also good for other subjects apart from macro.
this was done with a Teleplus x2 Macro converter on my FA50 f1.7 using catch in focus, a cheap way to macro for me as i already had the lens so just £30 for the converter, i think it did a reasonable job the beetle is about 1/2 inch long. i would imagine any of the Pentax 50's would work well with it.

thanks Nigel, unfortunately probably my weakest point with pp is selections and getting them to look right , i can always see the dividing line between what has and has not been done, never mastered "refine edge". in all honesty the colours are about as they were,at least on my monitor, i had spells of sunshine but mostly a bright but cloudy day and i am not a lover of over bright colours.
i have tried a couple but the ground was never as bright as the sky so equalising them does not look right to me

went on a walk around this area on Tuesday and found it to be better than anticipated, subjects both old and modern. also had a couple of hours in the aquarium which i must say is a vast improvement on what was at the zoo

Harbourside Apartments



4 of the original dock cranes also "The Mathew" and the "Earl of Pembroke" both of which you can wander around but it was busy due to half term so another day for that



The last surviving Fairbairn steam crane, both boiler and engine housed inside



Nautical Bits



From under the legs of a giant



A glimpse of the Glitterball



Reflections in Millenium Square, the walls are constructed of polished stainless steel and normally have water running down them



Ferry Arriving



Self Titled



The Ball, the At-Britol planetarium is housed inside this, again another day

find an old 49mm filter and push the glass out then use as a coupler between lens and cokin adaptor ring

it was not meant as that Nigel, more an endorsement of what you and it as a partnership have achieved given the bad press it was subjected to.

is it possible to use PK Tether with the K50? if so that would make a larger adjustment range available

is there no way the poster of the thread could be able to edit their post at any time? i would have thought that must be possible by now.

i think you achieved what you set out to do re exposures on most, as a set of pictures the sky colour in 1, 6,and 13 looks a bit green, the branch in 2 and 5 i find a big distraction, the first Ferrari is my favourite i also like the detail in 14 but would like to have seen the tops of the domes and perhaps cropped to see the bottom of the 3 facing windows. the statue shots, the low key i find too underexposed to be able to get anything from as a viewer. the K7 is working well though, i sometimes wonder why i went to a K5 from K7, just seemed the thing to do at the time.

thanks for looking and commenting, you are right DrO it would have been nice to have had original windows. bforbes , smeggy also felt it wanted a crop i was not sure what he felt was wanted but you have it spot and agree on looking again at it, yes Chris they have been resized by the site but also i have been trying different sharpening methods so could be a combination of the two.

late arrival to this thread ,i think that the colours in the original post appear over saturated compared to the church windows i have seen. they are bright and vibrant but they do not need sun glasses to look at them.

this is 5 exposure combined in Photomatix




and this a single exposure taken previous to the one above




both taken with DA21

i don,t think there is much difference between them possibly a bit more detail in the "HDR", not even sure about that but i did want to keep the colours as they were and not the super saturated that tends to happen with HDR. i am not saying it does not work,look on youtube for "Captain Kimo" and look at his stuff, i really like what he does but the subjects he uses are suited to the treatment given.