These are a few photos I took with my DA 50-200 which I've not posted previously. It may not be the sharpest lens but it has wonderful bokeh.

Stone Portrait: (With Raynox 250 Macro 2.2x)




Silent Industry:




Dunes:

That is a might ammount of space. I have somewhere in the region of 2000 RAW files and only two 100GB laptop drives in my machine. Space is tight but I find the room for:

Main photos always imported into Lightroom and set in a specific library folder with date hirarchy.

Photos backed up on to the second HDD and on to the external drive often.

Best images are exported as full size 80% JPEG files and as 600px web 80% JPEGs.

Anything that needs to be edited will be exported as 8bit AdobeRGB PSD. I'd use 16bit and ProPhotoRGB but I only have photoshop elements . I may be able to get my hands on CS2 soon though. I know someone who may not want their copy.

Workflow is not a problem once the library is set up you can get through a lot quickly. I have reprocessed all my images in weekend when I started using LR2 Beta.

Just set up as you feel best working. You can't really do much else.

using either af/mf switch to mf though will allow you to shoot even when out of focus.

Apparently...

Pentax have said that lenses will be either screw AF or SDM in future, not both. things like the Ltd series will continue to use the in body AF motor to save on space and allow them to be very small. While larger lenses will use SDM only. Bodies will continue to have a screw drive and will also have the SDM contacts.


This means that only Ltd lenses will work with older bodies in future but they are such fine lenses...

Zooms are likely to go SDM only and the DA* 16-50, 50-135, 200 and 300 are apparently going to be the only dual AF lenses.

I can't find the source of this information again though

Ok, this is really weird. I posted this image yesterday at 6:30 or so last night and it disappeared!!!

WTF?


EDIT to reflect post below:

I see... Unfortunately I don't have it that size on flickr... I'll have to re-upload it.

I forgot that I changed the sizing to make my photos 600px on the short side.




Her's and Mine
Taken with K10D + Tamron 90mm Macro.


I'm used to Picasa's automatic resize.

Thank George. Someone could have PMed me though.

Mmmm... BBQ Sauce... *drool*

Hmmm, thanks for that... I'll give it a go when I get some free time.

It was a copy of the invoice. It was in the box with a CD, set of prints showing the problem and a letter. I should have stapled all that paper together. I can get them an other copy, just seems really odd that they didn't see it.

Not sure if he's online often enough or had PM notifications on.

I just sent an e-mail to Pentax asking them how they managed to find all the other paperwork in the box but miss one that was sandwiched in the middle in the most polite way I could. I also asked what would be the quickest way of getting the invoice to them and if they'd accept a scan.

Yep, just seems to be an automated system which always seems to end at an answering machine :S