Now sold (elsewhere).
Thank you.

There are some things about this freedom of the press I dont understand...

Do they have the freedom to break laws?
In Portugal some time ago the newspapers released data about an ongoing court case (not the McCains...) which caused a mess, the Justice ppl saying its a fellony, and that they had to find who leaked the info...
I'm like, hello! the newspapers made it public!
There are two culprits here...
Same thing with the Valerie Plame case... One reporter was put in jail for not revealing the source... why wasn't anyone put in jail because they made public the identity of the agent?
Shamefull...

Photography is not a crime. But if I shot someone inside a house, from the street and displayed the picture without permission, I'd be liable to be taken to court, and rightly so.
They should look at the case and not generalize... Lasy politicians who come up with these broad ineffective measures only hurt people.

I finally decided to sell one of the MXs.

My endeavours with this camera are portrayed here and here. So you can know as much about it as I do.

MX 1 (see this topic):
















I got this better picture of the line I talked about in the other thread.
This line isn't a problem because you focus your eye on the focus screen, but you do see it when you take your eye to the viewfinder.

The camera would be supplied with this tatty case:


One of a variety of straps, original and not (including one commemorative, says Pentax 10 million).





A remote shutter cord, the viewfinder cover (if I can find it ), a body cap and an old viewfinder hood thingy (curved which isn't very nice for my glasses).
Also included is this flash (tested working with camera, but no batteries included)





Price is £65 shipped to UK.

If I had money easily available, I might risk it. But you're right, no glass pics... risky...

have a look at these:
ebay 1
ebay 2
They are bound to go up, but maybe still good deal.

Good luck.

You need a M42-K adaptor, I strongly recommend the original Pentax one.
Then you must have the camera set to allow use of aperture ring (dont remember very well how), turn it to manual focus and shoot away.
If the lens has a and A/M switch, turn it to M (so the pin goes in).

Hi.

Finally located a rubber hood, so I'll be including that too.

E

Hi.

I'm letting go yet another 50mm F1.7, my last one (fully working one).
No cause for alarm. I finally got around to reassembling my dad's F1.4.

I bought this one from MXV.

The lens is in very good condition cosmetically






with only some paint loss in the filter ring (tiny spots)





And some signs of use, but clearly not much...
The focus and aperture rings work fine, smooth the first and assertive clicks on the second.

The glass however has has two "big" dust specks, but they don't appear on the images



The lens comes with original front cap, but generic back cap.



I'm including a boxed Pentax Skylight filter.




Examples from this lens, to show DOF play.





Price is £42 shipped to UK (To EU, I'll have to check, PM me for a quote).
I can include a Hoya polarizar (PL) for an extra £1.

Your right graham. I actually had that on my scribbled down notes, but I obviously forgot... DOH!

I'm gonna load a roll onto the other MX (MX 2) and take it on the trip I'm gonna do this weekend. I hope this next one goes better.

Thanks
I hope so.
I might work on the second picture a bit more. Maybe expose it longer overall (except on bushes to the right) and especially on the sky.