I only have two lenses I use now which are the two DA*s.

I do get to borrow her 90mm Tamron Macro but only when she is around. She makes sure she takes that one with her wherever she goes.

She did leave the 18-55 but it is not the same.

First off, what is that UFO on the right? I thought it was on my screen at first

HDR isn't always worth it. If you have good even lighting then just a little curve adjustment and maybe tone mapping can do everything you want.

The thing about the DA*16-50 or the 50-135 is that as soon as you own one of them you have to get the other one. Once you have them both then you don't really fell you need anything else in that range and are just missing the DA*200 and 300.

At least that it how I feel. I'd go for the 50-135 first though as you already have the kit lens.

An other point to be made is that if you have a partner who also shoots Pentax they are likely to try and sneak off with your lenses when they go away for the weekend. I am currently minus my 16-50 for that very reason. My 50-135 feels lonely, as do I

The first is very good and the spot they are on has no unattractive obstructions of any kind. The bird in the background looks like a toy because of the bokeh, hehe.

Thanks, I was quite pleased, especially after reading that this lens gets quite odd bokeh close up. I don't really see much odd about it myself.

The dead leaf in the 3rd really annoys me, may go into photoshop and make it green

I've finally had the time to process my photos and upload them.

Weather was not brilliant and the gardens were at the end of their season. Which was a bit of a shame. Did get a few good shots and my new 50-135 got a decent workout.

I love the bokeh with this lens, took two similar shots for this one and decided on the F4 shot because of composition. The F2.8 shot was so smooth though. It is a revisit of a shot I took a few months ago with my 16-50.




Here is one that I took not five minutes apart from a practically identical one that my better half took. Her photo is much better and can be found in my favourites on flickr.




Managed to get a couple of moth and butterfly shots, unfortunately the minimum focus distance on the 50-135 was a little limiting so I had to crop them.




It was very good for Plants though




There is nothing quite like the Tamron 90mm Macro:

I broke my machine intalling Linux and had to reformat it so I should have no problems with LR2

I hate Adobe's Pricing. £50 in the USA, £80 in the UK. You can't buy on the US store if you have registered an European product key for the original product.

It is also quite stupid that the download is more expensive than the boxed version. I guess they want to shift all the boxes for which they already paid to be printed and all the contents produced.

On the first one the two shots are not aligned at all. The crenelated roof edge is on the image twice, once just above the tops of the windows and again where it is supposed to be as if the camera dropped between shots. Plus the sky is blended with the building in that area.

*confused*

Really could do with being standardised. If it were deaf people would find it much easier to communicate internationally than anybody else.