I agree with Prieni about the eyes. Have you got this in colour? I'm a fan of mono, but in this case warm skin tones would be more appealing to me.

Tony

Vic - I haven't had the pleasure, unfortunately. Can't drink the American stuff, it's turgid! (Caveat: this is my personal opinion and no offence to any American friends, who probably find Youngs Special turgid...)

Mike - glad you posted a link to his site. Some quite awesome pictures, although very stylised and it looks like he maybe uses HDR techniques quite a bit?

Tony

Very funny! I'm certainly quitting Pentax - Nikon is soooo much sexier!! You're right about the beer Vic - send them some Budvar now!

Tony

I am selling my Sigma macro lens as I don't really use it enough for macro shots and have now got the Pentax 50-135mm DA* to cover this range. This is a superb lens (see reviews, comments on this forum, my portfolio here etc.) and is in mint condition with box, case, caps and manual.

I am looking for £275 delivered in the UK (postage extra for overseas). If you are interested, then please let me know and I will post some photographs.

Tony

Comment 1: 90% of communication is non-verbal, 100% of forum communication is verbal. I think probably the little spat between Peter and Nathan would not have occurred if they had been face-to-face. I also thought Nathan was a bit rude, although this was clearly not his intention. We all need to be mindful of this...

Comment 2: doesn't work for me, but might have if all of the base was lit up. At the moment it looks incomplete. I think this is worth a bit more experimentation, though.

Tony

Steve

When you are in ACR, at the bottom of the screen to the left of the "Open Image" button, there is a clickable line which shows colour space, bit depth, size and resolution. When you click on this it brings up a window called "Workflow Options". Settings are remembered for next time. Not exactly obvious!!

Cheers

Tony

DA* 50-135mm received this morning. Mint condition as described with SRS receipt for warranty. Packaging excellent. Thanks very much.

Regards

Tony

Stefan

When I saw the WRs I did think that Pentax may have borrowed a bit of styling from Samsung (who I do believe have an edge overall with the cosmetic side.) I have in my hands now a Samsung 18-55 and Pentax 18-55 L, and other than cosmetics the lenses seem identical. Can't see any difference in the reflections off the coatings either.

Cheers

Tony

Indeed. From now on this is my motto!

But this is poetry, pure and simple, yet so deep and meaningful! Just what I need to end the week - bring me more!