Thanks for your response, much appreciated. Were they under warranty or not and how much was the repair if not covered and how long did the repair(s) take?

So far you are the only report of faulty SDM, but there are 2 failure reports. Did you include the body as well?

If not, we have an anonymous post.

I did request that people identify the lens if they had a failure. Would appreciate no anonymous "No" responses, "Yes" responses don't need identification, though it is appreciated if you do.

Surprised no-one has mentioned Slimbridge.

I visit regularly as there are different birds visiting throughout the year and there are some great photo opportunities. There are the other WWT centres as well, all worth visiting
http://www.wwt.org.uk/visit-us/slimbridge

Gloucester Docks, the Cathedral, Sudeley Castle and Berkeley Castle are also worth visiting.

Links
http://www.gloucesterdocks.me.uk/
http://www.gloucestercathedral.org.uk/
http://www.sudeleycastle.co.uk/
http://www.berkeley-castle.com/index.php

Don't forget Bath, Cheltenham and the surrounding areas. There are also the many National Trust and English Heritage sites that are always worth visiting. The NT alone have over 50 locations within 50 miles of Bristol!

Britain is such a rich location for photography, there is almost too much to chose from!

Hi Peter

That's great, pleased to hear that, can you tick the box for me? Ta!

There has been a long history of posts about SDM failures on DePressing Review, which has become very heated as people are worried about SDM reliability, but none here as far as I can see, which I find somewhat curious.

If you have an SDM lens (or several), please can you answer the poll and if you had any failure(s), post which lens or lenses.

Please, this is for SDM failures only.

I will kick it off with my "No"

Many thanks.

I usually carry my daily/travel gear (K20D, 17-70 and 60-250 in a small Nat Geo Midi bag shown below.




I used the same configuration when I had the 55-300, I haven't found any great inconvenience in the weight addition.

My alternative combination when I don't want anything over my shoulder and my hands free, is a Lowepro Zoom 2 case and lens case 2 on a belt, which you can just see in this shot of me and the boss in France this summer.



As you can see, I'm an overweight ol' f@rt and carrying any extra weight is a big issue for me!

I hope my comments are helpful, as a different bag combo is less expensive than another lens! Especially as you really do want the best possible IQ in any shots that you take on such a trip, in fact, anywhere.

Sadly nowhere near as good as the 55-300 but not a bad lens, it's just that the 55-300 is very good for the money, don't know about the more recent WR version, I suspect it will be similar.

I sold my 55-300 soon after I bought the 60-250 and haven't found the extra weight to be a major drawback even when flying Ryanair . Is the extra weight really such a large issue?

I'm not that daft!

Contents in the glass behind. Now long gone!

Carlsberg don't do photography, but Asahi do, so I tried to check it out!




The results were disappointing, even though it did say Asahi on the bottle, but the contents were much better!

Every now and then I take my OM-1 and my 3 Zuiko's (28, 50 and 135) out for an airing.

Nostalgic? Yes
Lovely construction and feel? Yes
Longevity and reliability? Yes
Forces more thought and creativity? Probably
Anything else? Not really

I love my K20D plus DA17-70, DA*60-250 and FA50 macro, but I will never get rid of my OM kit, there are too many great memories attached to it as I took many thousands of great shots with it over 25+ years as our family grew up.

BTW, your poll should have a third option of both. But as I use digital 99% of the time I did click digital.

6 pages now! If this response is anything to go by then the K-x will be a success.

Disappointingly little comment about possible IQ though. I agree with you about the high ISO part. If it's better than the K-7 (which is very probable) then there will be some wry comments!

Maybe they will bring out a version with the 12MP sensor for less money? I'd be more interested in that one, but I suspect they would dumb it down with no hyper program, AF adjust or prism VF.