Roland Ashdown

I had a 7D + 24-70/2.8.  It was magic for a fast moving toddler!!!  Spot on focus all the time. But I wasn't too happy with the outputs and was a little spoilt with my Leica-R 50/2 and Zeiss...

Hi everyone.It was my 20th again last Thursday and my lovely wife took me to Venice for a few days (the first holiday without our daughter in 2.5 years!). The trip was really lovely and I'd...

What a combination!!! Great outputs in the hands of a novice like me!  It also helps that the primary subject of my shooting is cute!!! (I'm some what biased :) ) Off to Venice next week without...

So, it's been a while now but had a very good turn up for my lens issue.Uk Pentax have had my lens for some time now and couldn't figure out what was wrong. And they went to main hq for help with...

Thanks all for your replies. Let's see what the service centre comes back with. I mean it's only taken them > 5 weeks now! -- Roland Share What You Know, Learn What You Don't.Pentax...

Hi.I wonder if anyone might have some thoughts on this please?Pentax (well, Johnsons Photopia) have my brand new K-5 and a used but (what seems) mint 1.9/43. They've had it for nearly 5 weeks now...

Thanks for the notes, all. Pleased to hear that they are generally very good at the sieve once they get round to looking at it!I'm just a little annoyed as I've only had the K-5 in my hands...

Hi.Has anyone here had experience with the UK service centre?I got a new K-5 3.5 weeks ago. And also a mint condition used 43/1.9 Ltd.Turns out that the K-5 was having serious BF issues (even with...

In the UK, they've had my new K-5 for 8 working days now for a Back Focus repair under warantee and haven't even started to look at it! I'm very annoyed about this, to say the...