Will look out for another Pentax owner at the weekend - my first visit also - thanks for the input.

Back from Spain and connected to the internet - great photographs Simon, some attempts from the cheap seats - heavily cropped and not to your quality - but demonstrates Maldonado's unique ability with a formula 1 car and being at the right place at the right time

Hi

http://strobist.blogspot.de/2006/03/lighting-101-traveling-light.html

Bought this mount recently - nice and not plastic

May still have the dealer information if you cannot track down

Regs

Bill

Happy New Year from Germany

No normal operation - thanks

One week later after posting, no problems with the camera

Was thinking more about location, but thanks will take note:

Any recommendations for photography at Monza - general admission only I'm afraid

Hi - started off life many years go with Practica, a SLR and then with a various bridge cameras (Canon) but prefer the optical viewfinder and light ability and the pictures of a DSLR. Kept the K20D for the prime less _ guess I'm a little paranoid about dust - every time i changed the lens on the K20D - picture of blue sky and examine every pixel my son has a Canon he never had a problem until we checked, it still doesn't bother him.
Told the latest camera is better but have not tried it yet.

To be honest I am very happy with the camera, retiring soon so it will be an importan part of my after work activities - just a little concerned when it started intermittently making more noise than normal , like a mirror or shutter problem as the mirror returned or as I origanally posted what seemed like a few seconds later. Played with the camera this morning all normal -problem was first noticed in Prague in the middle of a hot day a month ago then 10 shots later it disappeared returns ocasionally and then dissappears.

Will document next time - thanks for the help

Normal exposure, seems to be worse when the camera has not been used for a couple of days - sorry didn't save any specific shots - will use the camera over the weekend and see if it happens - have tried varying aperture and shutter speed but could not " turn on/off" the problem - thought it may be the aperture in lens returning to fully open, but again nothing visible in viewfinder - lens pentax 18 - 250
Have a prime lens as well but don't like swopping lenses as I always seem to end up with dust on the sensor (K20D)