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Very nice. I keep eyeing up the 6x7 stuff on ebay, not through any logic but I always liked that SLR-on-steroids look of the 6x7s. £60 seems a bargain to me!

Cheers, Kris.

Comment by womble posted on LBA at 23/01/2009 - 08:54

Anvh wrote:

womble wrote:
Isn't $900 roughly 600 Euro?

nope because the €600 price is with all the taxes which the American price isn't I believe but please correct me if I'm wrong.
On another forum about computers, if they have news there that Intel has lower there prices they show the American aswell and if you compare it with the price here you see that the converstion is mostly like this $=€

Who is planning to buy one if I may ask?

Sorry to be pedantic but $900 is roughly 600 Euro. $900 plus import tax (or US sales tax) is no longer $900.

Whichever way you cut it, it seems rather too much for this lens and I, for one, have no intention of buying it. I have other priorities especially with Hefty sitting on my shoulder like the devil incarnate tempting me into buying the 43mm Ltd! It also seems unlikely to be hundreds of pounds/dollars/Euros better than the FA50mm f/1.4 of which many forum members have spoken very highly.

Cheers, Kris.

Comment by womble posted on Pentax postponed the launch of DA Star 55mm F1.4 SDM to February at 23/01/2009 - 06:10

Which reminds me, I bought an "oh ick!" sensor cleaner and haven't got around to it yet. A job for Saturday morning I fear.

When I went into B&H photo in Manhattan and asked for the Pentax sensor cleaner the man behind the counter confidently told me the Pentax didn't make one. I had the pleasure of correcting him, he had the pleasure of not having one to sell me.

Ho hum.

Comment by womble posted on Flight Of Fancy at 23/01/2009 - 00:24

I get a bit frustrated with mine but I put that down to inexperience with flash. I could never get it to work properly in slave mode with the built in flash as the trigger, and the P-TTL seems to under-expose badly. I've taken to using it on manual mostly.

Comment by womble posted on O well at 23/01/2009 - 00:21

Well hopefully mine should be here soon. Perhaps Darkmunk got a particularly bad version as those pics looked ok to me (although I didn't "pixel peep").

I don't use telephoto that much, and the Tamron may well do me just fine for 43 quid! Save my money for the 43mm Ltd...

Comment by womble posted on Possible misprice Jessops Pentax 50-200mm f/4-5.6 DA ED Lens at 23/01/2009 - 00:17

At least the 43mm is out there ready to be bought if the whim takes one! Pentax have so many choices in the standard / short telephoto range! Not a complaint, merely an observation

Comment by womble posted on Pentax postponed the launch of DA Star 55mm F1.4 SDM to February at 23/01/2009 - 00:13

On the K10D you have a choice of automatic, select your focus point, or centre spot.

Cheers, Kris.

Comment by womble posted on Flight Of Fancy at 22/01/2009 - 23:54

Compared to 379 quid for the 43 Ltd... Hmmmmm I know the 43mm doesn't have SDM but will the new 55mm have magic fairy dust?

Comment by womble posted on Pentax postponed the launch of DA Star 55mm F1.4 SDM to February at 22/01/2009 - 23:34

Isn't $900 roughly 600 Euro?

Comment by womble posted on Pentax postponed the launch of DA Star 55mm F1.4 SDM to February at 22/01/2009 - 20:53

At $900 I think I might buy something else, like a 43mm Ltd.

Comment by womble posted on Pentax postponed the launch of DA Star 55mm F1.4 SDM to February at 22/01/2009 - 20:43