Pawel,

Keep looking at Ebay, and you will find these flashguns eventually.

Although it's always worth asking here, the number of members who actually own one of the guns you mention is probably less than 30, so your chances are not good.

Also, widen your search to include the 280T and the 400T.

G
PS: A post like this always tempts fate, so perhaps you will be lucky!

This is what Axl means - I think.

The lens hood has two filter rings on it which work in such a way that the hood can be reversed over the lens when not in use, and the lens cap then fits over the other filter ring (which in use would screw into the front of the lens).

It is this filter ring that the 49mm cap mates to. It obviously doesn't fit properly on the lens itself, but you would never need to do that as the lens would sit on the shelf with the lens hood reversed over it.
G

Pawel, it will work in manual mode only on all current and recent Pentax DSLRs.

I use the 500 all the time on the K20D, in manual mode. If you have one of the early Pentax DSLRs (*ist D, *ist DS, and *ist DS2) the 500 will also work in TTL (because those bodies support TTL).

This website has all the information you require:

http://www.bdimitrov.de/kmp/

G

It's a Superb Starling, I believe.

G

The people who died and are dying from asbestos were, in the main, exposed to huge quantities of the stuff. They used to be covered in white powder.

Although theoretically you could die from a few sniffs of the stuff, in practice that is highly unlikely to happen.

Smoking and driving are much more likely to kill you than a whiff of asbestos.

G

It is a lovely lens, Matt. One of the very best non-starred Ms.

When you think what a 77mm will set you back, £150 is a mere bagatelle.

G
(Happy owner of an SMC Pentax-M 1:2.8 100mm)

Thanks to the Internet, retailers now don't have the luxury of deciding to make a 50% margin. They either lower their prices and simultaneously widen their market (using the internet), or die.

And of course he hasn't lost just the sale. He's lost a potential customer, presumably, and one who might have spent a lot of money over the years.

G

Amoringello, have you any proof that Pentax have deliberately made the shutter sync at a lower speed than necessary?

If not, stop talking about "crippled".

G

It's fairly simple I think.

The height of a 135-format frame is 24mm. The height of a 645 frame is 45 mm. So where a 50mm lens on 135 requires (according to the "rule") a shutter speed of 1/50, on a 645 that would translate to 45/24 x 1/50 = 1/75 (approximately).

It's because 645 negs need 50% less enlarging than 135 negs.

On APS-C, the sensor height is 16.7mm, so the safe speed is 16.7/24 x 1/50 = 1/75.

G