Welcome to the fora and have fun.

Kris.

The postage costs will be interesting That thing weighs over four kilos!

Thanks all. I have two external disks at home onto which everything would be backed up, I just need something physically small, rugged and portable. I'll have a look at the WD Passport and the Lacie rugged ones.

Thanks, Kris.

You'll be lucky! By all accounts you'll need a trolley to carry it too.

As always, ebay is generally your best bet. I got the 135mm f/2.5 the other week.

Cheers, Kris.

Any recommendations for a portable external hard disk? My laptop is suffering from lack of disk space All those RAW files I need something that I can bung in my rucksack along with my laptop most days. It must, therefore, be very robust. I am looking for something about 160gb.

Thanks, Kris.

"Common sense" is a misnomer in my experience although I agree that this labelling is daft. I had kippers the other week. The packet said: "Allergy warning: contains fish". I bl@@dy well hope so!

Although a prime will have better IQ and an extra stop of speed, the Pentax 12-24mm is extremely good. The DA 14 is is only 20 quid cheaper than the 12-24. I find that I have that lens on the camera quite a bit of the time and although I use the longer end more often than the shorter it is good to have the flexibility. With your mobility problem you may also prefer the zoom. The main downside is size. The 12-24 is a chunky piece of glass

Isn't it nice to be spoilt for choice?

My sunset photo was accepted -- a no brainer shot -- my trees rejected. Oh well, I should try some other shots I guess.

If you are using a view camera life gets even more interesting... Because you want an image circle larger than the film so that you can make the most of all those tilts and shifts and rises and falls, you not only take into account the focal length of the lens, but also the size of the image circle...

I am now going to hide

Cheers, Kris.

I have been watching this seller for almost a year now. S/he had a different ebay name a year ago (something female, I forget exactly what), and not very good ratings. S/he then changed to "Pentaxuseruk" and for a while had been snapping up bundled sets of stuff (the ME Super + lenses + tripod + bag type thing) then re-selling in bits (nothing particularly wrong with that) as "buy it now" for quite inflated prices (less good). I lost a few auctions to him/her only to see the item I wanted relisted a few days later at three times the price. Something about the way s/he traded along with bad ratings set little alarm bells ringing and I have never purchased anything from him/her. I did mention this seller in a past thread.

Hope you all manage to get your problems resolved.