Hello BentleyTCow,

About the Jupiter9, can you tell me please if the scratch on the rear element manifests itself in the images....

Thanks in advance....

My humble apologies for misleading you. On further inspection it does state Sigma mount. I was thrown by the item specifics which says Pentax K fitting.

Regards...

There's a Sigma 12-24mm in a Pentax mount here:- link

Thanks for the heads-up, I just ordered two also. I noticed they have some 'Professional High-Speed Secure Digital (SDHC) Memory Card - 32GB - Class 10' @ £14.49 if any one is interested....

Well, my NEW K5 with a shutter count of 90 was delivered today by the very efficient Fedex at 1.15pm. Camera boxed, well packed and inclusive of all the expected items: manual, cd, warranty card, battery, leads, etc, etc, plus silnabs very kindly included a new 16gb Sony sd card. Everything just as silnabs said it was. Cost including delivery was under £500.00. I don't think I could have got a better deal anywhere and frankly I'm delighted.
Based on my experience I don't think any one need have any doubts about trading any other than confidently with silnabs.
Thank you very much silnabs it's been a pleasure doing business with you and I wish you success with the rest of your sales.
Now to enjoy my new pride & joy. The first lens I've attached to it is my equally lovely Sigma 8-16mm delivered yesterday by those equally lovely and efficient people at SRS in Watford at a very nice price too. So a big thank you to SRS as well.

Peace everyone....

Hello Owen, I'm presuming you haven't sourced what you are looking for yet, so let me run this by you for consideration. I have a vivitar 200mm f3.5 prime, which as it is an older full frame lens, can be used on both 35mm film cameras and pentax digital. On the latter with a crop value of 1.5 you will get an effective focal length of 300mm. It comes with a dedicated vivitar 2x teleconverter giving a focal length of 400mm on film or 600mm on digital, making it a very flexible option. It also features a built in rectractable hood and the all important tripod mount. It's a tx/m42 mount so you will need an m42 to pk adapter as well. It is in very good condition, clean optics, no fungus, snappy aperture and smooth focus ring, although the ribbed focus ring has a few usage marks on it. Your budget will buy it including postage costs.
A picture of one like it can be found here:- link

Photos taken with a lens such as this can be found here:-link

Other than this I have a pristine SMC Pentax A* 300mm which I have owned from new and has seen very little use, which I will be putting on ebay soon, but I do want considerably-ably more than your budget.

Best wishes and good look with your search.

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Back in the seventies I met a girl who just so happened to own a Pentax K1000, something clicked between us, I fell in love and life was grand. A few years later my girl dumped me for some owd geezer, Inconsolable
at the loss of my first love, on the rebound I indulged in a
brief but torrid affair with a tarty ME Super, putting K1000 behind me. Love can be fickle however, I couldn't settle as I felt the tug on my heart strings for some posh totty. A sleek Pentax LX had caught my roving eye and I was smitten. I traded the ME for the LX but in a pique of remorse at dumping the Super, I immediately bought another. Menage a trois was now the order of the day, peace reigned and life was grand again! Being young though I had earthy needs as well, sated by a string of girlfriends, until one fateful day found me dragged kicking and screaming before the altar. Shackled by a band of gold I was sentenced by a priest to marriage for life. For a while photography took a back seat, and as is so often the case with matrimony, soon a baby arrived and then another... youth was doomed and my mistresses mothballed! I've not been a bad husband or dad, not perfect but not bad, yet now some twenty odd years later for whatever her reasons my wife hates me, and so, recently I've begun to seek solace once more in my old loves. I've dusted off the LX & the Super and though the years may have condemned age has certainly not wearied them. To their number I've added a K10D - Err... well... err... it's siamese twin the GX10 actually - the same thing but for the more financially challenged, or astute depending on your perspective. With the passion for all things Pentax stirring within me once more, I've also aquired a heap of glass, as like many of you sad enough to be reading this I've succumbed to a serious bout of LBA, an infection I'd sware I contracted through visiting this site. It's a bit like the photographers equivalent of herpes, there is no known cure, you're just grateful for any brief periods of remission but when you get the itch you just gotta buy! Maybe visits to this site should come with a Health Warning! No offence intended! I enjoy my daily sojourns here, it's very therapuetic. I still have earthy needs however, unsatisfied even by Pentax Porn! But who knows? I may just find a new soulmate amongst these hallowed pages, ownership of a K5 a distinct advantage though not essential, but must be slim, fit and female. Lol....

Peace everyone.....