I didn't know that they had a notice board for these things. I must add it to my list.

Just take it to an airport and ask if you can see it on the x-ray machine monitor.

Or take it to hospital complaining of a broken limb and place it next to you when they x-ray your limb.

OK, this has been driving my nuts since changing to Windows 7.

The scroll menus is Adobe software have no scroll bar, only an arrow at the top and at the bottom of the menu. If I want to change a font it takes a long time to scroll through all the fonts or presets that I have. I can type if I know exactly what I am looking for but sometimes I want to have a quick look through.

Any idea if it is possible to change is for a normal drop down box that can be scrolled easily?

I didn't want to risk it with film, but then again as long as the lens cap is on there is no harm done as I can always wind it back.

Wow, perhaps they should go back to school and learn English before they try and get people to work for free.

Pardon?

I inherited an ME super and Super A + Winder. It is very loud!

I think my winder may need some maintenance as when I tested it it reeled off continuously until I stopped it by turning it off! Luckily I had no film in the camera but I don't think I'll be using it once loaded up.

If you zoom the lens in and out and hold by your lips (they are quite sensitive, don't kiss it!) you can feel air moving and you can hear it. I don't really trust a bunch of 'O' rings to prevent water being literally sucked in on a £600+ lens. The Design of the 50-135 is much more robust as there is nowhere water can enter, the same with the 200 and 300. Not so sure about the 55 as it is not internal focusing and the 60-250 also breaths.

If I had some kind of reassurance from Pentax then that would be better. I only know from experiencing humid conditions with the 16-50 in a butterfly sanctuary greenhouse that it will steam up inside, unlike my other lenses.

The DA* 16-50 is very sharp but suffers a little from field curvature. This is almost completely gone by f/5.6. It is good wide open and amazingly sharp from f/4-5.6.

The Weather sealing is very useful although this lens does 'breath' as you zoom in and out and that can suck water in. If you are out in rain or dust either keep it at 16mm to minimise ingress of particles or keep it completely zoomed in and don't move it.

Personally though if I have the DA* 16-50 I'll have the DA* 50-135 on a second camera. That one is fully sealed and does not 'breathe', no moving external parts at all. Therefore in the rain I can cover 16 & 50-135 which is fine by me.

I had one SDM failure with a very early DA* 16-50, it was one of the first in the UK. The replacement has never had any hint of a problem and has seen several years use. SDM is nice and quiet, I don't like going back to screw drive lenses after experiencing SDM. In fact, all the lenses I have gotten since the DA* 16-50 have been SDM lenses.

Sadly no experience with the Tamron. Down side with it I'd say is noise, 1mm shorter and no Weather Resistance.

I am very pleased with my DA* 16-50 though.

LOL, I'll let it die then. Didn't look at the dates. Amazing how often threads get resurrected and people post like it was 5 minutes ago.