My latest ebay bargain? arrived today, a Takumar - A 2X Tele-converter.

I tried it on My Samsung GX 1S with my SMC Pentax-A 50mm f1.7 and it works fine however the same lens and teleconverter fitted to my Pentax K20d won't work properly - with the lens aperture ring on the 'A' setting it stops down to f22 and the viewfinder is very dark, I can get it to work by enabling use of the aperture ring in the camera menu and setting the apertures manually but don't understand why the 'A' setting doesn't work.

Any help would be gratefully received.

Merry Christmas to all forum users from me too.

Keep trawling Ebay - If you can get used to the single locking bolt system a Uni-loc or Benbo would be ideal for both general and Macro work.

My Uni-loc cost me £30 off ebay and is rock solid and infinitely adjustable.

Brings back some memories for me as well - we used to camp at Ben & Georgina Roskilly's farm just above the village for a couple of weeks every summer.
One of my favourite parts of the country.

Some previous discussion can be found here

https://www.pentaxuser.com/forum/topic/Pentax-SMC-DA-1855mm-F3556-II-9029

I bought the 16-45 and am very happy with it !!

Park cameras have various Samsung GX10 bundles on offer this week

http://www.parkcameras.com/6918/Samsung-GX-10-Body---18-55mm-lens.html

seems like a great deal (I recently sold my used K10d for £310 on ebay).

I'm also interested to know which barcode - my 16 - 45 lens (from SRS) has a sticky barcode label on the bottom of the box which I think is covering up the box barcode.
I'm not sure I could get this label off without damaging the box underneath and possibly tearing the barcode.

Paul,

Are you going to put us out of our misery ? - The suspense is killing me !!

Did Josh buy the lot or did you decide not to sell after all ?

Well,

I finally took the plunge and ordered the Pentax 16-45 mm and a Sigma 24 -70 mm (unfortunately not the EX but at £49 a useful portrait lens ??) from SRS Microsystems.

So Christmas is coming a little early for me - they should be delivered on Monday.

I love new toys

Paul,

I'm not an expert but based on prices I would be willing to pay for mint condition used kit I reckon

K20d £375
battery grip £60
50mm f1.4 £120
16-45mm f4 £120
50-135mm f2.8 £375

which adds up to £1050 - I'm sure others will be along and add their estimates which hopefully won't be too far away from mine.

Edit: Mike beat me to it - and our idea of prices isn't a million miles apart - the 16-50 used is a bit of an unknown quantity but is available at under £400 new if you shop around.