Since doing my back in carrying around a heavy camera bag, and lusting after an A7s, I'm thinking of selling most of my Pentax gear. At the moment I just want to see if there is any interest, as it will all have to be sold and shipped off in 8 days in November, when my wife is in the UK. If there is interest in enough of the gear to help pay for the kit I want to get, I'll put some prices up. I'll probably keep my K5 and a few primes, plus of course the GR.

A quick list:

Pentax K3, shutter count around 3700

DA 15mm Ltd f4. vgc.

Sigma 8-16mm; very good condition

Sigma 18-35mm f1.8: stunningly sharp lens at all apertures and focal lengths, mint, nearly brand new.

Sigma 24-60mm EX DCf2.8; very sharp lens

Pentax DA 16-45mm f4; very good condition

Tamron 80-200mm f2.8; manual focus zoom, vgc, comes with PK/A adapter

Tokina AT-X 80-400mm f4-5.6; compact long telephoto zoom.Some paint missing from the AT-X logo, hood a bit scratched, optics in perfect conditio

Pentax-A 35-105mm f3.5, vgc, no hood

Samyang 85mm f1.8, excellent condition, hardly used

Pentax FA24-90mm f3.5-4.5, good condition, optics perfect

Tamron 90mm BBAR SP f2.5 Macro, excellent manual focus macro lens, comes with matched 1:1 converter which makes it 180mm. Includes PK/A adapter.

Takumar 200mm f3.5 preset lens, M42, amazing bokeh from 18 aperture blades. Comes with PK adapter.

Pentax M 135mm f3.5, vgc, in fact I would say it's mint.

Thanks, John. It turned out to be some sort of sticky goo that had somehow got into the leaf mechanism. Possibly a spilled drink at a party I was using the camera at a few days ago. I've managed to clean it out with some isopropyl alchohol, suggested by Smeggy, and it's now working fine again. Phew!

My GR lens cover is sticking and won't open or close. It was working fine one minute, switched it on a few minutes later and now the lens cover is knackered. The warranty has run out too. One of the two leafs doesn't move at all, the other takes about 3 minutes to open or close. Has anyone any ideas, or has heard about this? It's my most used camera, and I've just bought the wide lens for it, so I'm pretty gutted.

Exciting stuff......

I agree. You'll probably end up cursing yourself if you leave one of those behind. Personally, I'd also never go on holiday anywhere without my 8-16mm.

I like the ability to change the angle of view, and it's a good looking bit of kit, but the promotional footage looks pretty dire IQ wise.....

WG-M1:The Chase

Granting a world-wide, royalty free license, with the right to sublicense, use and distribute your images is about more than just hosting, John. The part of the terms and conditions I quoted is pretty explicit in saying you are granting them commercial rights by signing up to this group.

Of course, the terms don't stop you selling these images elsewhere, but this is hardly a bonus. Plus, some stock agencies, Getty for example, would not licence any image you put in this group, or allow you put an image licensed to them in this group.

You're all no doubt aware that Flickr is now owned by Yahoo. I was pretty disgusted to get a message on Flickr, who say they advocate protecting your images, inviting me to join Project Weather, a Flickr group. The group is a Yahoo group. A quick read of the terms and conditions quickly dissuaded me.....

2. You retain ownership to any photos you submit to the group, however, you grant to Yahoo a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license (but not the obligation), with the right to sublicense, use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, publicly perform and publicly display such photos (in whole or in part) in connection with (i) Yahoo Services; and/or (ii) advertising and promotional materials (in all mediums and any media) for the Yahoo Services both by Yahoo and by third parties. Yahoo Services is defined as the collection of resources offered by Yahoo, including without limitation various communications tools, forums, shopping services, search services, personalized content and branded programming through Yahoo’s network of properties which may be accessed through any various medium or device now known or hereafter developed.

Amazing to see posts on this group thanking them for the invite :

I wonder how many more of these we are going to see...Marissa Meyer's vision for Flickr is perhaps not as rosy as she makes out.

As he's asked you what you will charge, you should quote him a price imo. You can get an idea of pricing using the Getty Calculator but I'd also get an idea of what his budget is. I'm sure you can come to an agreement satisfactory for both of you.

PM sent about the 35-70