Payment sent and can't wait for the 200mm ! Thanks

Postie delivered the lens today, really well packed and in excellent condition. Put it on my K-5 and it seems to work just as well as it looks! Thanks Alan!

Yeap that's how mine is setup if you wanna view the image and enlarge it just click the play button on the left and the dial zooms in again

Do you have lens corrections on? If you do the camera takes a while to process the jpegs

Where did you buy it from and how much if any warranty does it have please?

I think we are missing the point on this thread really.

You can take pictures on a £50 P&S or a a £15000 FF Setup. You can mountain bike on a £400 Carrera or a £6000 feather light carbon setup and you can buy a few bottles of beer from your grocery store for a couple pounds or can only quench your thirst with Carlsberg Vintage 3.

So just as every other pass-time/hobby, photography is as cheap or as expensive as you want and can afford to make it.

However I am certain that it would be hard to swallow if your bottle of beer jumped from £2 to £4, the Carrera that was £400 went to £700 overnight and so people (including me admittedly) find hard to swallow the doubling of lens prices from last year.

The 17-50 Tamron is a no brainer. Especially now that the DA 17-70 has increased in price quite significantly. I had one on my Nikon's and loved it.

I now own the DA* 16-50 but only because I got a very decent price s/h and really like the feel and the quality of it. If I had to pay £600 for it I would have gone for the Tamron as IQ wise there is not much to it if anything the DA* has a fair amount more of purple fringing but the Tamron is not weather sealed and it feels rather cheap and plasticky in comparison.

I need to get a feel of how it performs in the outdoors. When I had a few minutes with one at SRS it was inside and the LCD was really rather great. Anyone has the slightest clue how the LCD is on a sunny day in the outdoors?

Still have not decided what I want to do about getting a smaller camera to take backpacking/mtbing/camping but don't want to end up having to guess what the heck I am shooting...

Very much tempted by the OM-D for that job but it will cost me 2K to acquire the camera plus a few useful lenses and I am not sure I am prepared to spend all that. With the K01 I can get it for less than 600 with the 40mm and selling either this or the Ltd 40mm of mine I can have a second body for near £400...

I know a few things I can do with the rest £1600

I'd think the 35,40 and 50 might be a bit too tight at times? I'd get a 21mm and a 35mm especially if you want to go a tiny bit stealth and not have beer cans pointing at people

Push the ISO higher Otherwise you are looking for a very expensive solution into a very rare problem