Ha! Ha! That made me laugh You would have thought they would have
called it MaMaMia Senor!

Mayfair either because they thought it sounded posh or it
was a line for a dealer in Mayfair?

Sankor either a brand name or made by Sankyo?

23 deg F Nice to see someone still using a properly marked
thermometer Looks like there's plenty of heat coming off
that bird Amazing detail considering red doesn't usually
photograph too good.

Happy Christmas.

The Real Camera Co are usually a bit on the high side with prices?
Either that's only a 50mm 'M' lens or its got faults.

Beware of cloudy 100mm ones due to element separation.
I wouldn't personally want a macro that didn't show the
f stop inside the camera i.e. no 'A' setting on lens.

Hi Marc, Don't forget that you've pushed the price of these lenses up by an extra $2,000 with the hummingbirds

I think Sams probably getting a better picture of what it's worth now and because he prefers a sale through this forum and it sounds like the buyer is going to have to have a look at the lens first it might be better that way.

If it were a Fender guitar you would have to pay extra for the scratches

I'm not involved in this sale, samfilce came here for advice and
some indication of value and until he supplied all the photos it
wasn't possible to give that indication. I gave what I thought it
was worth obviously only an auction will give the correct figure.

One did sell for $6500 last year which was $1500 below what the
seller paid for it link (Edit: same as given in previous post).

Marc (also member of this forum) mentioned that he knew of one
for $6600 in Japan about a month ago in this thread link

Smeggy gave this link to some lens reviews and the prices ranged
from $6600 to $7400 (3 lenses)

The photo on this page shows the grey tape that's missing.

Looks very good optically and the main outer damage seems to be where some tape has come off and one of the strap supports. Probably worth at least £4k with perfect mechanicals.

The reason the FA is heavier is that it's a power zoom.

Here's one that sold on the other forum.

Some photos with it on this forum.

Nice video Ben and I'm amazed with the quality from a K-x

The film deserves at least a free K-5 come on Pentax don't be
mean

Backwards compatibility with not only lenses but with 'M'
series eyepiece accessories such as refconverters.

The green diamond OK on MF and the green MF exposure
button.

The two control wheels and their configuration.

The pheasant shots are good especially wide open and 1/20th sec.
I think your going to have to wait for brighter weather when the
same exact shot will probably be f/8 at 1/250th (ish) and will be
sharper. If possible with the 55-300mm try for f/11 or half a stop
under that to get maximum sharpness and DOF.

Using 320ISO or 400ISO will give you a faster shutter speed but
400ISO for birds on a K-7 is a bit noisy, but you haven't much
of an option at this time of year. Luckily the pheasant wasn't
moving if it had been 1/20th would have just been a blur.

On the other forum the last two posts state that:

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Wednesday 20101215
The service center confirmed the issue (after trying to clean it again). They advised the agent and I can pickup a new one at the dealer on Friday or Saturday.

Friday 20101217
Stock is 'infected'; agent ordered new stock so I have to wait till after the holiday

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The camera shop which I got my K5 from 2wks ago has returned their entire stock to Pentax. It's a big place too; both mail order and retail.
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link

Sounds a lot more than 5% to me