If I leave the K1 overnight (like you do!) the next day after I have turned it on the first shutter release just makes a soft 'snick!' sound and nothing else will work. I have to remove the battery. When I put it back in the mirror makes its usual sharp noises as it returns to where it should be. The camera will happily work all day now. Next day, it's the same performance. The card shows a blank, black frame that can be deleted (so something certainly happened with the initial click). The lens is irrelevant. I've tried vintage manual focus and auto focus as well as modern versions, just in case, but there is no difference. It just doesn't like that initial shutter release.

Your thoughts?

Well, you expect excellence from that one. The doggie ones are lovely!

They do it justice alright. It's a beautiful place to be and you caught it just so.

Composition of the 2nd one is most impressive (imho).

Tell her it will take wonderful pictures of her mother. Don't tell her it can focus into bedrooms seven streets away.

Absolutely lovely set. I've never been to Corfu but these make a great advert for the place.

It's not just the shells. Several dual carriageways in Birmingham have conker trees in the central reservation and in windy weather you get pelted with them!

Nice indeed.

You don't really need AF - assuming your subjects are not moving. There are dozens of top quality vintage offerings out there going for peanuts.

I have a brand spanking 'new' spare wheel and tyre in the back of my Skoda Octavia. It comes out now and then to check the pressure. Given that it has been there for twelve years how safe would it be to actually use it?