Well done Simon, great shot, congrats to you.

As the title says, its in excellent condition and comes in its original leather case. It has the M42 screw mount, so you will need an adapter for it, and you can only use screw mount lenses with it.

I have had a look around the web to gauge value, they go for around 50quid. I will ask 45quid with free postage, if anyone is interested.

Heres a pic
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When I was in Uluru (ayers rock) just recently, a German couple approached me and asked me to take thier picture with the rock in the background, he had a K20 with a Sigma 17-70 (with no hood) and she had a Nikon D300, I happily took a couple of shots.

We started talking about camera brands before he asked if he could borrow my Sigma 10-20 for a few shots, we swapped cameras after removing and switching memory cards, took a few shots and went happily on our way. Nice couple

I just hope you guys don't get it as bad as we did this past summer.

Good luck.

I took these this morning, reversing a 28mm Takumar on my K-7,

I used off camera flash on a bracket (Pentax AF360fgz), aperture f16, Shutter 160sec, iso 200

All taken handheld about 3inches away from subject, Uncropped just resized for the web

A Bee
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This ant was guarding the entrance to a cave and wasn't about to let me inside. The ant was about 5mm in size
[IMG]http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x261/ClarkyinAus/IMGP1351.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x261/ClarkyinAus/IMGP1352.jpg[/IMG]

Do you think he has something to hide, Lilly

I will get into the spirit of things.

I have very few pics of myself, and this was the best I could find.

Just on my previous avatar, I am a little surprised I wasn't told to remove it for copyright reasons. It's my avatar, from a well known online poker site which I frequent.

When they told me the price of the battery I almost fell off my chair, I was too frightened to ask what the grip was going to retail for

I have been trying in vain to get hold of a spare battery (D-L190) for the K-7, here in Aust. I have been told it won't be available until mid sept

The price quoted for one was quite a shock £90 No wonder the price of the camera was so cheap here, they intend to make thier profit from the battery sales.

When the K10 was first released, the battery price (D-L150) was about £50, so what makes the K-7 battery so much better : The only thing I can think of is the K-7 battery is a new design specifically for the K-7, while the K10/20 battery was an already available design, rebadged for Pentax.

You can already pick up Chinese 3rd party K-7 batteries on E-bay, if you want to risk it, for £10 + P&P, but I will steer clear of those for now.

I have ordered a K-7 battery from Chris at SRS, For £55 + P&P.

Camera has now been sold, Thanks ericp.