I am lucky enough to have quite a few birds of preys flying around my back garden as I am surrounded by farmland, and I had a visit from a pair of kites a couple of years ago. Getting the light right is quite tricky on a sunny day as they are big birds. I would go for a least 300mm as I only had a 50-200mm back then and the reach was not far enough.
Here are a couple of shots I took on my old K-x and 55-200 at full stretch wide open and also cropped so not too sharp either.






Getting the pair in the same frame was the hardest though, especially with power lines in the way

John, if you start at the first page and enter SRS web address, you get a page with all the dates that have been captured(blue circles) Like this:
link You can change the year at the top, and click links within the captured page, but these will often go to a " no archive exists" page or as you found out the current dates page. Still to have an archive of a relatively small website such as SRS dating back to 2001 is pretty impressive. It can become quite an addictive site once you start looking at archives of your favourite sites.

Pentax User 2002 which coincidently has the 31Ltd announcement on the homepage.

Joe, the 31Ltd was £669 in March 2009, as I found out by searching the rather useful Internet Wayback Machine website.

Pentax Prices 2009

My local dealer looks like they have also lowered a lot of their prices recently, most of which match SRS , but also good to see some lenses £50 or so lower in price (some more expensive too )

Thanks for all the advice guys, I have ordered one of the vacuum cases from Amazon as for £15 it looks a bit of bargain. I do have a good dehumidifier, which I think I will start using again in just the spare room as it is not that cheap to run. Not been one for having windows open(have you seen the critters that live in a thatch :shock in the past, but have been doing so more often recently.

Humidity has dropped into the 60's this week as the heating has gone on and I think my open fire dries the air out too. Oh and my health is fine, not had so much as a cold in the last 5 years

OK, so I this topic has been done before, but I was wondering if anyone is a similar situation to me.
The problem I have is my house. It is a 300 year old cob walled cottage with a thatched roof and small single glazed windows. To give you an idea of the inside conditions, Salt goes semi-liquified within a week and will not pour, my old leather Chesterfields need the fine white mould wiped off the back of them every few months. Leather belts, cases etc often get mouldy regardless of what room they are stored in. The house is not damp and does not smell musty or mouldy, it is an inherent problem(I believe) with this old type of construction.

I have humidity meters which currently have a reading of around 75-80% After checking a couple of lenses that I had not used during the Summer, I noticed a small growth of white mould/fungus on the outside of both rear elements. Luckily these came straight off with a lens cloth.

I now store all my lenses in ziplock bags with colour changing silica gel packs in each one which I change when the humidity gets above 60%(humidity starts at around 20% and rises to around 60% after 4-6 weeks) and my bodies in a Tuperware type bread box, again with silica packs.

Is there anything else I could do, bar investing around £200 in a dry box? Also should lenses be stored with caps on or off?

Thanks in advance.

Hi all

Long time lurker here. Started photography many years ago with a Cosina CT-7 K-Mount SLR, lost my way a little with a series of digital compacts, but finally have a K-5 now

Still very much a newbie, but already feeding my LBA thanks to having a local Pentax dealer on my way home from work who is often cheaper than SRS

Also trying to learn the art of post processing, which makes taking the pictures the easy part!