Those are attractive beasties.

The first one is laden with mystery and it broods. Super shot Gareth.

I saw a comment on the Pentax Forum where a user mentioned the failure of a K3 to 'catch in focus' at 28mm when he had an old 28-135 zoom mounted. However, he said, there was no problem as he was using a NIKON split image focusing screen. My poor old eyes would love a split screen in the K3ii. (There is a Chinese one on E bay now and then but it has lousy reviews). Does anyone know about this purported Nikon focusing screen?

There are a couple of K5ii offerings on Ebay presently. Well worth a look if nothing more.

1st one changed, as suggested, but with a "quick and dirty" cloning job.

They are all nice but I prefer 4 due to the detail and that lovely blue tone.

I use Pentax, Energiser and Maxsimafoto randomly rotated as they deplete and I haven't found a scrap of difference between them .

Some follow up would be good. My *istDS was OK one day and down the next. Can't get a peep out of it now.

Thank you for those very kind comments. It has indeed been a great fungus year with all manner of them appearing in lots of environments.

I just got a really nice 55BB Tamron SP 500mm mirror lens, boxed, cased, with all the paperwork. But for a very little dust inside it you'd think it was mint. Most people would point it at distant scenes I suppose but I stuck it onto the K1 on a tripod about 6 feet away from some tiny toadstools no taller than half an inch. Available light was absolutely dismal but the results, first try out of the box, were marvelous. Can't wait for some decent light!







First one 6seconds and the last 10seconds ISO100. It's a fixed aperture of f8.