Hi Paul, welcome to the forum.

Forget digital, what you really need is a broken MZ5n, I know where you can get one cheap

I personally wouldn't put to much faith in the ebay feedback system, in fact I think its a bit of a Joke (note that is Joke with a capital J), I have it myself, simply because I left a negative for some dumb@$$ seller who had a total disregard for the prompt delivery and safe packaging of a purchase, needless to say he responded in kind by accusing me of trying it on, of course a complaint to ebay would only have lead to "feedback withdrawn by mutual consent"

As for buying any "electrical" product from the USA, wont you have problems when you try and charge the battery? ie a 110volt charger plugged into the UKs 240volts.

£7.50? you mean FREE with two years subscription to Pentax User Magazine Mine arrived just before I went on holiday so I put it away.....and forgot all about it Thanks for reminding me, I'll have to fish it out and have a play around.

I say buy a box brownie, if your a good enough photographer its all you should need thats why I have a K10D

I used to moan about windows 95, then about win98, followed about windows milleneum, now I just moan about winXP and my recent adventures with vista.......but I keep on using it, keeping Bill Gates in luxury cos' I know its the best thing for my needs and it suits me fine.

I even moan about my Pentax when i'm trying to focus on something difficult and the lens hunts like nobodys business, but then I consider all the good things and count my blessings, like today visiting the Conway Scenic Railroad in New Hampshire when everyone was putting their DSLRs away when it started to rain, not me I just carried on snapping then made a big show of wiping the lens dry and leaving the K10D camera body wet, why? cos I could

Even pessimists own Pentax cameras and they have the right to join forums like the rest of us.

PS; if you need any money ALWAYS borrow from a pessimist......they dont expect it back

Sorry, on hol at the mo so cant dig the mag out, but I did post the results;


https://www.pentaxuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3519&highlight=50200

I read a lens report on various 50-200 lenses, the canon and nikon didnt do very well the pentax and its samsung "sibling?" were highly rated and more or less said to be of equal merit, the tamron won the day.

The image was a jpeg yes I KNOW I should have been shooting RAW what with the contrast problems and all, but I was just glad to get to the wedding on time in the first place (dont ask) so my stress levels were at an all time high and I just left the camera in Av and put myself into point and shoot mode, although I did calm down a bit, enough to start adjusting the flash for fill in at least.
And yes, I suppose I could have rescued the file even after formatting but I had used it again since.

Since My original post I tried opening the file in Windows "Paint" it opened no problem, so I do have access to a very large file, I suppose I'll have to save it as a bitmap then re-open it in photoshop.

Has anyone experienced problems with only half a file?
Typically the best shot of my new daughter in law in her wedding dress wouldn't open in photoshop (only displaying half the image), As I had transfered these onto the PC and backed them up onto three different drives I had formatted the card so couldn't retrieve the original file.

The image displayed OK in windows explorer so I was a bit dissapointed to find a problem with the file when opening it up in photoshop, is my card on the blink or has something gone wrong during image transfer?.

All was not lost though as I simply opened the file in explorer and hit the print screen key then pasted it into a new file in photoshop, looking at the 8x6 print I think I got away with that quite well

Peter, I think you either deserve a medal or need sanctioning, taking a camera out onto the streets full of drunks and drug users, even with all that police prescence is something not many of us would do.

I feel a Poll coming on, does Peter need sanctioning or does he get a medal

EDIT...or should that be sectioned?