For Sale:

Pentax K20D body, boxed with all original items and all packing, even all the original Pentax bags/bubble wrap. Bought from SRS 04/2009, so still within Pentax warranty. I would say this is in MINT minus condition, with just a few tiny marks on the rear LCD, only visible very close up and at a certain angle.

I have had no issues of any sort with this camera. Shutter count is 3209. Extras included; fitted with Pentax grid screen (some marks) also includes the original matte screen (unmarked) which will need re-fitting if you so wish. Also includes a Pentax K body cap & a spare battery (not Pentax brand).

Price; £390.00 to include Royal Mail Special Delivery (UK only). Cash on collection price is £370. I am in Walsall, West Mids.

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Pentax DA 35mm f2.8 Macro LIMITED lens, boxed with Pentax lens pouch & paperwork, bought from Peter Walnes 2009. MINT minus condition with just a few small rubs on edges of the barrel. Optics are mint & unmarked, no issues of any kind inside the lens.

Price; £280.00 to include Royal Mail Special Delivery (UK only). Cash on collection price £270.

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Pentax DFA 50mm f2.8 Macro lens, boxed with Pentax lens pouch & matching Pentax lens hood, bought from Ffordes 2009. MINT condition with MINT optics & no issues of any kind.

Price; £270 to include Royal Mail Special Delivery (UK). Cash on collection price £260.

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Pentax D-L150 battery for K20D. Boxed with paperwork. Very little used, price; £19 EACH to include RM recorded delivery. (Two available).

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cheers Steve.M. (ebay ID; BONGONUT - welcome to check feedback )

Hiya...

Look, just because you use Pentax gear does not mean you should put your head in the sand. I currently use a K20D, but I am under no illusions that the Canon & Nikon AF is quite a lot better. I used a 40D for a year and it was much better than the K20D for AF speed, especially in lower light.

This does not, as one user above says relate only to the high end Canons & Nikons, the D90, 50D etc are all very much in the same price ballpark as the K20D/K-7 and yet they are without doubt quite faster, both with AF and also processing speed.

I stick with Pentax for the digi prime lenses and the light weight & small size of the cameras, however if Nikon built a D300 quality camera the same size/weight as a K-7, I am afraid I would jump ship.

1. Grid screen 'on demand' via the camera body like Nikon do, so no messinn around with focus screens.

2. AF that is as good as C&N.

3. 10-22 or 10-24 DA limited lens. The build/ergonomics/feel of the Pentax 12-24 does not impress me. (Tokina does it much better for FAR less money)

4. DA 50mm f1.8.

5. DA 10/11mm.

The rather major (and very expensive) problem is that Pentax would have to support any FF camera with a new range of full frame lenses...

Hi,

The Leitax items are not adaptors. They are proper conversions to the actual bayonet mount, which is an entirely different thing.

Hi,

You will not find a Contax-PK adaptor. Not possible to make one. The PK mount and the Contax C/Y mount are nearly identical, but not quite, due to the PK mount being jointly developed with Zeiss before the Contax RTS system was introduced, when Zeiss & Pentax had a brief (approx 1 year) tie up.

cheers Steve.

"I read recently that Pentax are looking to bring out a full-frame DSLR this year"

....correct me if I am wrong, but surely a full frame Pentax would need some Pentax full frame lenses to use on it.....

Hi,

He is a well known member of the photo net forum, which I also use. He no longer uses Pentax, but uses the Olympus 4/3rd system now. A very helpful & nice guy too....

...G does'nt like it though....

"Fair enough, but it's not the whole story, because digital sensors work best when lenses have a "telecentric" design - that is, the rays of light exit the lens parallel and not obliquely"

John...I am afraid that also is not the whole story. The Canon EOS full frame users have spent the last 4 years praising the 'old' film lens, the Contax 21mm f2.8 lens as the best wide angle made, and giving it special praise for its fantastic performance right into the frame corners. This lens was designed back before digital had been thought of, and certainly does not have a telecentric design...

cheers Steev.M.