Got mine abour 2 years ago on ebay for £150. Very pleased with it. I found it sharp and quite fast AF. Its my walkabout lens, I hardly ever use my DA 18-55 wr. I have used the Tamron at weddings as well.

My only gripe is and it seems I am not the only one, is that the lens hood can be hard to attach/detatch as if its slightly too small. I have sorted this out by wrapping sandpaper around a rolled up newspaper to sand a small amount away.

I have read somewhere thats its not supposed to be as good on FF.

You can check out my images on flikr and expand to full size, majority taken on a K5.

Regards

Jeff

Second that or is it third that.

Good one.

I think we should all support the moderators, they have a difficult job at the best of times, They have to make decisions which can at times be unpopular. We have to accept the decisions they make.

Lets move on and concentrate our energy on photography.

Jeff

Love them both. Well executed.

Oh! The second one is a crop.

Jeff

I was out walking the dog when this robin perched a few feet from me. Took a few quick shots. Only exposure, highlights and shadows adjusted.
K3, DA55-300 @ 120mm, f8, iso100, built in flash

I think the Extreme Class 10 80 MB/s was renamed Extreme Plus Class 10 80 MB/s. The Extreme Pro Class 10 95 MB/s is just a little bit faster. To get the extra speed benefit from these cards your camera has to be UHS compatable. The K5 for example is not and the Extreme 45 MB/s would be just as good.
Class 10 means minimum write speed of 10MB/s. The other figure is the read speed which is higher then the write speed, the Extreme Pro Class 10 95 MB/s is quoted as upto 95MB/s read and 90 MB/s write.

It certainly has and i will cetainly be doing more.

The last image has blown sky and and blur caused by subject movement, it was hastily taken and I should have checked it on camera. It would have been my favourite but for this.

Cheers

Jeff

I general take pictures of landscape, buildings and that sort of stuff. Apart from when I have attended weddings I very rarely take pictures of people. I was asked if I was intersted going out with 2 colleagues, one of which is an ameteur photographer like myself and the other is a amateur model. I jumped at the chance.
I made lots of mistakes and learnt a lot.
It was a bright sunny evening and although I had brought a flash gun I didn't use it to fill in the shadows.
I took 95% of the shots at maximum aperature.

All but the last image were taken with the DA* 50-135 @ f2.8.The last image is a poorly taken shot with a Tamron 28-75, should have set the camera up properly and retaken it, but I have included it as I do like it.

Anyway comments and critisms please.