Just been reading this

Its like a teleconverter but reduces focal length and thus inreases the aperture size.

Hi Vic

I have ine available if youre still looking for one, i dont use it anymore, in the box with all the gubnins...

Lmk

Gary

Yes it is, a lot better! All my shots have been focussed spot on so far under mixed conditions.

Whichever body you get the AF on both of them gives you a confidence previous pentax bodies have been lacking.

Its not about keeping up to date, its about running a shop as a shop which means keeping goods in stock to sell. When i go into a shop to buy something i have obviously thought that shop will solve my problem, all purchases are problem solvers. If that store does not stock what i require then they have wasted my time and petrol.

Unfortunately to many stores have forgotten this, jessops was a classic example of this failure, being told repeatedly to go home, order from their website to be delivered to their store to try out is not acceptable in this decade. Apart from a few flagship stores the majority of their stores did not carry dslrs over £600 in value or fast zoom lenses, once you start doing that you lose customer trust. Jessops business model was to sell consumer starter dslr bodies and slow zooms, hoping to make money by selling expensive overly priced memory cards for £35 which could be bought elsewhere online for £10ish again this rubs up the photographer who needs a card desperately, are they going to return to a store that wants to sell them cards at over three times the going rate? No!

I bought my k-5 mkii as part of the trade in deal and ordered over the phone from SRS who gave me a good deal, good service and more importantly had my item in stock, no waiting, just a good old fashioned working shop business model. My local jessops on the oer hand could not get one in stock for me to purchase over the counter, i would have to order online. My last purchase from jessops was my 35mm 2.4 which on jessops website was £129 in store it was £149 the store couldnt pricematch the web exclusive price, i could however stand in the store order it on my phone and collect it instore over the counter, what a crazy ridiculous way to run a business!

Not being able to fit a grip, the small grip of the body, the lack of some buttons and the missing top LCD. Dont get me wrong the k30 is a cracking body for the price, but having already got a k-5 and the k-30 was to be a second body the k-5 mkii made more sense for me and has now become my primary body with my mki my backup body.

I have recently had the k-5 k30 and the k-5 mkii each body has improved af on the previous version. The k30 is slightly better having focus peaking, but the k30 was limited in major ways for me compared to the k-5 plus i don't use focus peaking.

I think Asahi Photo will be able to supply these

Yes like fablon but better quality, i bought it here

For the lens hood I cut off a measured piece with an a4 guillotine to ensure a straight edge. The hood was slightly broken under the rubber edge, so pulled off the rubber trim and rubbed the vinyl over the edge and covered it over with the rubber trim.

The next stage involved lots of hot air gun to stretch over the angled edge and shape, then I trimmed of the excess with a craft knife.