I'll be about for the next day or two but on Monday I am off to Romania for my field season. I'll be away for nine weeks and although I may well pop by on the odd occasion I get to an internet cafe, I'll essentially be offline. Hopefully the crew won't drive over my tripod, leave a camera in direct sunlight to fry or rip a film right out of its canister because they didn't push the rewind button in this year.

Have a successful summer and I look forward to catching up on photos and posts when I return.

Best wishes, Kris.

Don't you think the whole blue = water = aquarium thing works here? I might be tempted to make the foreground figures more black silhouettes but I would have thought the blue of the water adds to the shot. Just my tuppence worth!

I have 35 LXs on my ebay-sales database. Minimum price £85.00, maximum price. with various extras £641.96, average price £243.91. For a good example, body only or with an unexciting lens, £250-£300 is about right. Check for the famous "sticky mirror" problem and the state of the light seals. If it has the FA-1W viewfinder it is worth a little more.

Kris

Although I agree with Gartmore that at the end of the day "only the image matters" there is something inherently pleasurable about using a well designed and well-made piece of equipment. I can probably get better quality images from my K10D than my ES/MX/LX but I still shoot the odd roll of film just for the pleasure of it. I felt the same way about some of the Olympus models like the OM1n. At work we have a *ist which, to be frank, feels plasticky and vulnerable. On my excavation I have a couple of Canon EOS film cameras which do the job just fine, but only I get to use the LX! As photography is a hobby, I'll take pictures the way that gives me most pleasure from start to finish.

Don't start again. It was your fault I succumbed to the 43mm!

Talisker. Without doubt.

Grade inflation is a sad fact of life. In the later Roman Empire they had to keep creating newer more extravagant titles for the top nobs because the second rankers kept appropriating them.

PS No idea about the DA 40 but the FA43 is lovely. Glad I got it before it doubled in price though!

I became utterly convinced of the sharpness of this lens when paulyrichard started posting here!

Not exactly a discreet lens is it?

I don't regret buying the 43mm Ltd and enjoy using on both media.