I thought the picture looked familiar. We used to go there regularly when I was a kid. We lived up-country near Lake Nakuru.

Note how wide the road is. The main streets in Nairobi were laid out so that a waggon pulled by a team of 32 oxen could turn in one go.

The car in the lion picture is the famous Peugeot 403. It and its successor, the 404, were legendary for their ability to survive a bashing on Kenya's terrible roads. By the mid-sixties there was hardly any other make of car in the country.

G

Ted,

Remember the Riley Rule. Buy Pentax. You owe it to yourself, to your camera, and to your photographs.

G

Four film cameras cannot use lenses without an A setting on the aperture ring. They are the MZ30, MZ50, MZ60 and *ist.

http://www.bdimitrov.de/kmp/technology/K-mount/crippled.html

In addition, the DSLRs cannot use pre-A lenses except in manual mode. However, this is rather akin to using a camera like an MX, and not a major hardship.

G

There is something wrong with either the flashgun or the camera. The 400 definitely should switch itself back on.

G

A copy-writer? Me? A plagiarist, perhaps, but not a copy-writer.

G

Of course, the problem with your highly professional ads (from a buyer's perspective) is that they are too effective, and push the price up!

I have the F* 300mm f4.5, and consider it to be superb. It's a totally usable lens, and your A* is even smaller and lighter. Long ago I owned the old K 300mm f4, but although pretty good, it was just a bit too heavy and lumbering. It seemed to say "Put me on a tripod", whilst the F* demands to be hand-held.

G

Hope you are successful, Batty.

I note you have recently been setting an example to Ebay sellers of how to present an item for sale in the most effective manner. Very impressive; it's nice to see somebody raising the standards.

If you have a Pentax FA 200mm lens for sale (either), save some Ebay fees and let me know first. Please!

G

Incidentally, that phone number's a bit out of date. It should be:

020 8903 3435

Try:

Hasselblad UK
Hasselblad " Metz service
2nd Floor
York House
Empire Way Wembley
Middx
HA9 0QQ
0181 903 3435

G

The DL should, logically, work in TTL mode with any of the Pentax digital flashes (those with three extra contacts on the hotshoe).

It won't do P-TTL with the 500, because the 500 can't do P-TTL. But it should be able to do anything that is possible with the 500.

I may be wrong, but it seems extraordinary to make it work with some digital flashes and not others. I find it hard to believe that "ftz compatibility is one more feature stripped down from the ds to the dl". Presumably by this you (Don) mean that the DL won't allow the flash to zoom automatically. I'll take your word for it, but it must be more expensive to disable some features than to allow them.

G

The 500 should work fine with your DL in TTL mode. Make sure both the body and the flash are set correctly, in accordance with the instructions in the manual. I am sure you have not damaged your camera - what's more likely is that the flash is firing at full power in manual mode.

G