I'm considering selling off some of my mostly unused Pentax stuff and i'm prepared to consider all reasonable offers before deciding whether to put them on ebay or not..

MZ5n for spares or repair, the shutter wont fire, it just makes a whining noise, otherwise its excelent and would make a lovely ornament includes manual.
MZ7 excelent condition, boxed, manual.
28-80 KAF (silver) excelent condition, boxed
28-200 KAF Sigma Asperical, (silver) shallow lens hood and free "brand X" close up filter. SOLD
Remote release F SOLD
Jessops brand Tamron T2 adaptor SOLD

and possibly my much loved 80-320 KAF (silver) also excelent condition and boxed.

All lenses include front and rear caps (originals) and skylight filters, mostly Jessops own brand.

I can take paypal or cheques in GBP

I was advised by a birdwatcher that you need to try bins before you buy, not everyones eyes are the same distance apart and not all bins respond the same when adjusting for this, even expensive ones.

I have a relatively cheap pair of Bushnell 8X10-32 zooms, I bought them mail order for around £45, I cant get the two lenses to converge to form a brilliant image and they produce a ghastly purple fringing if zoomed much above 20. they're not bad for spotting though

I suppose I should have just said "Dont buy Bushnell*

PS: do you need anyone to carry your suitcases

Easy Bob, Nathans reply was obviously meant in jest, hence the smiley

Well it seems the inclination is towards the 16-50 but it'll be a couple of months before I change (Xmas is always a good excuse for new toys :wink and the prices may easily drop a bit more.

I did consider simply upgrading the quality of my glass but after playing with a GX20 I realise how useful the liveview feature would be, I suppose I could always sell off some of my older glass to help with funds, my istD will probably be given to a family member and I'll keep the K10D as my second body.

Do we actually know if Pentax are trying to tempt profesional users at this moment in time? the sponsorship of Benjikan would suggest yes, yet their recent "seperation" leads us to believe this was only a temporary measure, a testing of the waters so to speak.

Surely Pentax (at present) are happy enough to be serious contenders in the amatuer market again, the release of so many entry level models over the last few years would suggest so.

I suppose the K20D's successor will answer the question.

I would second Martins comments, probably a driver or software issue somewhere along the way, I quite like VIsta but still get irritated when I discover something wont work 100% because the drivers were written for XP or even earlier versions of windows.

I decided its time to invest in some quality glass, my problem is deciding between the 16-50 f2.8 and the 17-70 f4. With only around £75 seperating the two the obvious choice seems to be the 16-50, sacrificing the extra focal length for increased speed and one hopes a far better quality lens, especially as it also has a fancy bit of gold around the barrel

The indecision arises because I am also tempted to buy a K20D the kit price falls dramatically with the 17-70 when compared to the same discount for the 16-50 package, a differance of over £170

All suggestions (or donations) welcome

Hi Dave

Sorry but according to my "outbox" you've not read my message, though I can no longer access it. I also have your reply in my inbox but cant open it and read it, it shows up as a "closed envelope" with no subject, I tried deleting the message to you in my outbox but its made no differance, it also doesn't show up in my "sentbox"......AAAARGHHH!!!inbox's, outbox's, sentbox's....god this is getting confusing

Can you email me instead, alan#jackiechapman.co.uk obviously replace the # with @

PS I'm just going to delete everything in all my mailbox's and hope it cures the problem

Was that the full blown production or one put on by a local theatre group? I missed the full blown a couple of years ago at the NEC, but was lucky enough to hear Justin Hayward perform Forever Autumn halfway through a Moody Blues concert a few months later

Cant really comment 100% on the pics at the mo' I'm on my laptop which isn't the best thing for viewing images, but they look OK to me, though Lilly is probably the best to judge as its her stomping ground.

PS, I think the one with the flowers in the forground is the best of the bunch.

Jessops are simply .... a Jessops type shop

Or to put it better, the type of shop that sells what they think the public wants and stuff they can make a good profit on, there are several others on the high street that are similar.
IMHO Jessops are no longer a "proper" camera dealer, in fact I'm surprised theyre not selling TVs yet But if thats the way the want to operate then who are we to argue, we can always take our business elswhere, which is probably why Jessops dont stock Pentax because they cant be competative enough with it.