My advice, with any product from any manufacturer, is never buy the first models on the market. A few months down the line they have ironed out the glitches found by their unsuspecting beta-testers and the price has stabilized at what the market will bear. This isn't a pop at Pentax but the modern business model, whether manufacturers admit it or not, is to cut down on testing and let the public do it for them for free. Pain in the posterior, but there you go. I dare say the focus problems with the new DA*55 and the K10D may well result in a new firmware update, for example.

Cheers, Kris.

If Pentax last as long as this thread we don't have to worry

I am hoping it will be a good choice for taking informal available light portraits on the K10D (although probably a bit short on the LX). Definitely out of my comfort zone but something I'd like to get better at, and less intimidating than the 50-135mm

Get thee away from me!

Or the 31mm come to that. I am placing a moratorium on my purchases for a while. I have enough toys to play with that I haven't really tested out properly.

I saw the 70mm Ltd at SRS last Saturday. I had no idea it was that tiny. Stunning bit of design.

K.

Any luck with the repair?

Sssshhhhhh Sadly SRS didn't have a silver one.

The flat palm idea worked a treat. Many thanks.

Now for a day with time and light. I seem to always have one or the other lately. Yesterday afternoon I went out for a walk with the Ltd and the 135 (amongst other things) and the light was as flat and uninteresting as it is possible to get. Then I got a lift home and, wow, lovely sunset. By the time I was home, I'd missed it!

Oh well, another day.

Thanks again, Kris.

PS now you can stop being devil's advocate over my shoulder.
PPS I have yet to try it on the LX/MX etc.

I hope you are going to write up the results of your experiments so that we can all have a go

Why did you have to modify the SP2 in that way? To avoid vibration from the mirror? I'd be tempted to use a camera with MLU like the LX or KX but I won't be chopping it about like that.

Cheers, Kris.

Good fun. I like the first snail and the marina the best. I don't think it does much for your dog

Does it work in CS3 too?

Cheers, Kris.

At the moment I cannot get the hood to unscrew and I am loathe to apply too much pressure to it. I'll try again. Thanks for the info.

K.