Hi Andrew you have a pm

Regards Steve

I have for sale two 52mm thread Hoya ND filters (ND4 and ND They are in good condition and supplied with their original packaging.

Price £20 plus PayPal fees and postage.

I can post pictures to anyone who is interested.

Regards - Steve

For sale I have two Pentax close up lenses designed to be use with Pentax 50mm lenses with a 49mm thread. I purchased these to use on an 50mm F1.7 for semi macro work. Also for sale is a Pentax Conv-A filter acquired as part of a bundle.

Item 1 - Pentax S25 Close up filter (49mm thread)
This filter is SMC coated and has hardly been used. It has its original box and keeper together with the original supplied literature.

When used with a 50mm F1,7 the focussing range is 32.6 ~ 22.3cm and the magnification is 1/4.8 ~ 1/2.7

Price £12.50 plus PayPal fees and postage.


Item 2 - Asahi Pentax Close up filter no 1 (49mm thread)
This is the older of the two filters it has its original keeper but I do not have its original box, or literature.
When used with a 50mm F1.7 the focusing range is approximately With the close up lens attached, the lens will focus to approximately 15 - 45 cm

Price £10.00 plus PayPal fees and postage

Item 3 - Asahi Pentax Conv-A (49mm thread)
I picked this up as part of a bundle and have never used it. It is is pretty good condition for its age It is in a Asahi Pentax keeper, but there is no original literature.

Price £7.50 plus PayPal fees and postage


I can post pictures to anyone who is interested and will offer a discount and combine postage if someone wants more than one item

Regards - Steve

Mike what browser are you using?

My images from last week are missing no matter what browser I use and like you my earlier images, which were awaiting approval before the site was redesigned have returned.

Regards - Steve

I have just logged on using three different browsers (latest versions of Opera, Firefox and IE9).

IE9 is clearly not working correctly. My approved images are not available and I am unable to click on an 'artist'

Firefox and Opera seem to be OK, my approved images are there (nine on the front page and a further two viewable by clicking on a page tab underneath)

Also Opera Mini on my Android phone not working correctly

Strangely when I go to Jonathan's page I see nine images on the front page, but there are no page tabs underneath, however when I click on an image the rest become available to view.

Regards - Steve

Before the new site was launched I had 5 images pending approval and 11 approved. When the new site launched the pending images dissapeared. I took it that this was because of the new size requirements and re-uploaded those images and a couple of others. Last night they were all viewable.
Today all my approved images has gone, together with those I re-uploaded, but mysteriously the earlier pending approval images have reappeared.

I have informed them of the issue via the contact form, hopefully they can restore the missing images.

Regards - Steve

As per title, the PPG is relaunched. New interface and voting system, with the opportunity to comment. Uploaded images must now be 900 pixels in height.

link

Regards - Steve

I have a 77mm Kenko Pro 1D fitted to a DA* 16-50 . It is slightly more resitive to turning than a 58mm Kood I use, but it is definitely not stiff.

Regards - Steve

I echo George's comment, on occasions images captured with this lens show the 'pop and 3D separation' that is a hallmark of the FA limiteds.

That said there are some issues. I always shoot RAW, so any vignetting/distortion and CA is easily taken care of by the Pentax supplied profile in Lightroom/CS5.

This lens along with the DA* 50-135 are getting a little long in the tooth now. They were introduced at a time when the future of Pentax was very much in the balance. We have to remember that these lenses are essentially Tokina designs, repackaged with SDM,weather sealing and SMC. I believe the later DA* 60-250 is much more of a Pentax design.

Regards -Steve

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Regards - Steve