What I have found when using Photome is if you have edited the pic in anyway you lose a great deal of exif info, including shutter actuations. make sure the pic is unedited before opening it in photome.

Hope this helps.

Perfectly normal, its the shake reduction mechanism I believe.

Doesn't the K-X have focus adjustment :

Flossie, You just screw the filter onto the bottom of the hood and then screw it onto the lens, so yes filters can still be used.

This is the one I use on my FA-50 1.4, its a genuine Pentax hood and as it says on the label, its dedicated for all 3 of the 50mm's, it looks considerably smaller than the square one you are using John.

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And this one is more or less identical to the Takumar hood I have pictured above.

A Pentax Takumar Asahi 800mm F4 6x7

I saw one of these sell about 5 weeks ago here in Australia and it went for $1580 which I thought was a reasonable price but $7900 is a touch optimistic I think.

You could be forgiven for thinking that, some of Ghana's attempts were woeful

Congrats too Stefan, so is that 24 in a row without defeat now for the Dutch, and I do believe it was we Aussies that last inflicted defeat on you , if only, if only, if only

I agree with you entirely, for such a deliberate foul, the goal should have been awarded without a shot being taken. But Ghana really were terrible with there penalty shooting, for such an important part of the game particulaly in these major tournaments you expect they would practice a bit more.

I use these on all of my nifty fifties,
I will part with one if you are interested, let me know and we can come to some arrangement
I can't believe the prices of the hoods in your links
John, Is that what you paid for your hood :

This is a genuine pentax all metal hood
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This one is plastic with a metal screw thread
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These lenses were never released with a dedicated hood but you can use one of those colapsable rubber hoods, Pentax made an RH-B70 rubber hood which should do the trick.