Congrats from me as well It rightly went to the person who was given first refusal and is a long standing member of this forum, which is nice to see, because, we know he will post some shots taken with it and we can all drool. Praises to Sam as well for sticking to his word.

This lens is that good wide open that an option for repair would be to fix it permanently wide open. I think it's part of the design that a Filter has to be in place at all times.

Perhaps Peter could send you a copy of his Avatar to stick on your lens

Happy Christmas everybody!

You don't need a lens on the camera. It mentions it a few posts down. Just switch the camera with no lens and it will ask for the focal length. I can't see that working though.

I haven't got a K-x but the *istDS I had before the K20D used to be fussy about batteries. It used to work perfectly on Japanese made Panasonics similar to the Panasonic 1950's shown on this page. These were really good batteries unfortunately the current Panasonics seem to be Made In China and aren't as good. On the DS it was down to the battery and how it had been charged. You will have noticed on RH's site that he recommends removing the battery and then recharging for another hour or so to get the maximum.

I never had any problems with Eneloop either.

Sankyo were one of the biggest makers of movie cameras. They also
made projectors. The lenses were Sankor which I presume was their
own brand. They also made amorphic (not sure of the spelling)cine
lenses which I think fit other makes as well.

Ricehigh has done some extensive testing of K-x batteries.
You will have to search the site, because there's more
than 1 article.

http://ricehigh.blogspot.com/

You might be right yet!

Been mooching around flickr and found one from gregmol (user on here)
he shows how to do it with the Pentax Bellows which stops down
the lens from the supporting post link

I think you have the wrong gizmo there Mowog , probably because
the OP hasn't given much details about what equipment he will be
using, such as a Pentax Bellows with matching double cable release?

It will have to be homemade anyway with a push button or microswitch.

All three are nice, but the 1st one shows how much
he really enjoys the snow
Perfect exposure and WB as well

My favourite Christmas song is Stevie Nicks singing Silent Night.
Incredible quality to her voice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b5wpiaScoQ

also a fairly good live version with Robbie Nevil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY3g7ri3YbU

Looks like it's £99.99 now link

I wouldn't pay that much for a 50mm f/4 the Vivitar f/2.8's
are cheaper