I've now ordered the cord, and I'm still looking at brackets. Found a couple of solid-looking fixed ones from a UK seller for £10, they put the flash above and to one side of the lens (in about the two o'clock position when viewed from ahead). Is that useful or will I be wasting flash output up there?

Also bidding on an AF160 for my ME Super after realising how tiny they are, a pocket flash for a pocket camera (when it has the 40mm lens attached!)

There's another shop near them selling sheep's milk ice cream. Interestingly they don't put this in huge letters on the signs, presumably as they want people to taste it first rather than just saying "eww, sheep milk?"

It's actually very nice ice cream!

My collection is similar, but a little less useful. I have:

AF200S
AF200SA
AF200T
AF240Z

The AF200S would go with my ME Super if I need a flash, the AF200T will be handy as a second flash if I ever want to trigger it remotely as it has manual power settings via a switch on the back. The AF240Z is my main flash as it seems pretty good with the K-m.

I also have the bracket for a Cobra D650 or similar, but not the flashgun itself. I have considered buying one of those instead but I don't know if it supports Program flash (it appears to be TTL or the old ME-S era Auto mode).

If it's anything like the old Super A then selecting shutter priority mode will enable you to set the aperture - a rather crude way of doing so but it'll get the job done. As you adjust the shutter speed the camera will set the aperture to match, so you just need to find the shutter speed at which your desired aperture will be selected.

I use mine regularly on my M series bodies. It produces a brilliant compact SLR with a very useful field of view. I was skeptical about how good it could be (having read some poor reviews and thinking it wasn't worth the usual inflated prices) but for what I paid I'm happy. I certainly wouldn't pay £100+ for one.

This now has me thinking - I wonder how hard it would be to replicate his experiments?

I have assorted film bodies and a few rolls of HP5, I bet a set of red/green/blue filters for 49mm thread would be ridiculously cheap and it'd be easier than ever to combine the images after scanning and filter them digitally. It would only really work for landscapes with clear skies on a calm day, but that does occasionally happen!

In general the advice I've heard is to eat where the locals do. Any culture will reward good food with large numbers of customers, that goes for Marrakesh just as much as it does for Wales. Nobody goes back to a place which gave them food poisoning.

You're also likely to be safer sticking to local foodstuffs - attempts to reproduce overseas recipes for the tourists may or may not be successful...

I'm not entirely sure how McDonalds survive in Hereford though, as if you walk for a minute or two (towards Melgrays) you'll find a shop selling fresh pasties which can pretty much use the smell of their produce as an advert!

I think something like an ME Super and a roll of HP5 is the way to go if you want someone to experience film. I just find the AF bodies too similar to digital, which misses the point as far as I'm concerned.

Plus you can use all those sweet old M series lenses in their intended habitat - assembling the classic kit of 28mm, 50mm and 135mm primes won't cost you a fortune if you look carefully.

Can't see why it wouldn't be, it's just an extension cable after all. I'm not too sure about those pop-out locking prongs, there's a hole for one of them to engage with on the K-m hotshoe and I hope the other is sprung rather than attempting to bore through the hotshoe when you turn the locking lever! It's held together with plain crosshead screws so if it is a problem I can easily open it up and remove the offending parts, or just not use the lock.

I will be trying it on my old Super A and AF200SA before it goes anywhere near my K-m, a multimeter will also be waved around. That will enable me to check the program contacts work as the Super A will display the aperture along with the flash ready light.

The major snag for me there is price. I realise the Pentax gear will be in a different league to cheap ebay stuff, but £20 for bracket and cable is very persuasive when compared to the total cost of that gear.

I may buy the cable for now and look at alternatives for the bracket, as I've seen more solid ones with fewer joints (I think Jessops of all people offer one that places the flash in much the same place as that Pentax one).

I'll be using an AF240Z for now, I really wanted P-TTL contacts to future proof it as if I ever upgrade to a more recent flashgun (not likely given the prices) as the flash I have supports Program mode and works with the K-m in this mode. I realise manual gives more control, but I'm still getting to grips with using the additional light at the moment so it's staying on P!

I'm looking at brackets and cables to move my flash off the hotshoe (as I've read that this will improve the results). So far, I've found this bracket and this cable.

Anyone have either/any thoughts on either? I want to keep camera and flash in one unit rather than having a camera in one hand and a flash in the other (hence the bracket), and that cable looks pretty decent for the money.