I'm sure you'll be up on your feet in no time at all.

+1 for the speedy recovery.

Just think Dave, all that snapping time.....


That's the wife snapping at your heels to get some jobs done around the house

Trust a Yorkshireman to start a thread like this

+1 for beakynets reply

Many suppliers will unbox new stock, separating bodies from kit lenses and selling separately could be one reason, checking the contents to ensure everything is there is another, with low profit margins due to price cutting you need to make as much money as possible, having additional shipping costs when something is missing doesn't help.

That's a very good start Stan.

There are numerous ways to attract birds to the garden, each will have its own preference for where it likes to feed, you can often attract ground feeders like Robins, Dunnocks and Blackbirds to a flat table, other birds that normally prefer feeders such as Tits and Finches will also use a bird table if there's a handy snack waiting for them.

Food wise, mealworms (even dried ones) will attract Robins, Nyjer seed and Sunflower Hearts will attract Goldfinches, though Nyjer seed makes a right mess leaving thousands of tiny husks to clean up.

Try and set up a perch near the feeders, stick a suitable branch in the ground nearby and you'll find the birds often land on that and have a look around before jumping to the feeder, they will also use it when there is a queue for the feeder

Then there's the old trick of drilling a hole in an old spade handle and baiting it with food, capturing birds on props like this is much more rewarding that snapping them on the feeders.

EDIT: my namesake beat me to it, I really must stop breaking off typing to put the kettle on

Best advice I can offer is:

1) put the kettle on
2) put the battery on charge
3) make a brew
4) forget the battery for a while and immerse yourself in the manual
5) tear your hair out and log in to the forum for clarification



6) grow another hand cos' you won't be able to put the K5 down

If the old meter is still functioning correctly yes.

Anyway, I don't know why I'm giving all this advice, I've never used and ND grad in my entire life

My experience comes from using graduated grey filters which are not really ND's

That's because the difference in required exposure between the sky and the ground was not balanced out correctly by either the positioning or the density of the filter, this is why it's always a good idea to base the actual exposure on the grass which is just about the nearest thing available to an 18% grey card.

To use ND grads correctly you really should be taking meter readings from both the foreground and sky and working out how many stops difference there is and then using the required ND filter, even then you may have to try a few exposures to determine the optimum position of the filter in the holder.

My ME isn't so super, I doubt it will ever see another film, but it is nice to pick up and play with occasionally

I'm currently on the lookout for another film body and it's not going to be a Pentax I may have to join another forum and say hello to another forum member who's there

As for film I used to like Gold 200 for colour.

It still looks good with just the bottom cropped off Ted, whether you like the letterbox crop or the more conventional framing is a matter of taste.
For me there was just too much empty space between the lower clouds and the darker ones at the top so I cheated