It is a lovely lens....

Yup, there is definitely an Amin looking back at us out of that last one. I quite like it...

The kit lenses tend to be a little variable. Mine is lovely and I have ended up buying other focal lengths rather than replacing it. Other people are less happy...

Obviously the focal length is a personal thing depending on one's favourite subjects but as 35mm on digital has the same FOV as 52.5mm on film (i.e. between the classic standard lens lengths of 50mm and 55mm) I would have thought it is essentially a "standard lens" on APSC sensors? Having said that, for many years (on film) I just had a 50mm f/2 and a 28mm f/2.8. The 28mm was used probably 90% of the time.

Given current lens prices I am learning to appreciate the delights of a Jupiter-9 85mm lens thanks to hefty.

Best wishes, Kris.

Perhaps a little better.

I rarely take pictures of fast moving things so I am not bothered by the speed of the DA* 50-135mm but I can fully appreciate it is very slow. The cheapo Tammy 70-300mm is much quicker, but a quite a bit noisier too.

If I had 900 quid spare I'd have the 300mm off you but it is out of my range right now. In fact, almost any genuine Pentax lens is out of my price range right now. I was looking to spend the money I got for the Samsung 12-24 and there wasn't really anything I wanted I could afford. Until the prices come back down I shall stick to adding to my collection of Taks.

Good luck with the sale. And if you get a Pentax 200mm macro can I come and play!

Best wishes, Kris.

PS Love your stuff on the PPG.

You can change the dpi without changing the image size (in pixels) in photoshop by going to resize image, and deselecting "resample image" and changing the dpi to whatever. It only really makes a difference to things like the size of the image when you zoom to "print size". Different programs do different things with DPI when you come to print the image.

As far as I know, you cannot change the DPI in camera. Lightroom seems to automatically change the dpi of files I download from the K10D to 240dpi.

Hope that helps. K.

One from the summer.

At 300mm I'd usually aim for a minimum of 1/300th but as always it was a trade off between hoping and the noise at higher ISOs. The K10D is a lovely camera but pretty horrible noise at 800 or 1600. What I really need is a bracket that bolts to my motorcycle handbars....

I half agree with hefty but I think a crop that has the dark area hitting the top left corner and the diagonal reflection hitting the bottom right corner works well. Not sure about BW, try it!, or perhaps change the colour of the persons clothing to something less eye catching.

Otherwise, I really like it!

K.