Unfortunately not. As far as I know you can get adapters for Canon EOS and FourThirds but not Pentax.

It's a shame as the PB versions of the lenses always fetch much less than the (identical bar the mount) M42 versions...

These people (link) will make you up an adapter to attach pretty much any lens to any camera you want - just don't forget that Canon lenses won't focus to infinity on a Pentax so they're only useful for close up / macro work.

Back in the days of film you either had a daylight balanced film or (if you were really professional) a tungsten balanced film. You could make fine adjustments but that meant carrying around a bagful of filters for each lens and - let's be honest - for most of us life was too short for such subtleties.

I've kept my film mindset and my camera is pretty much always set to "Daylight", unless I'm shooting under tungsten lights when I move it to "Tungsten". That's it really - no faffing about with auto settings or fine tuning for me and 99% of the time it works just fine!

For the remaining 1% of the time I can always go back to my RAW files on the PC where I'm free to tweak the colour balance to something more pleasing to the eye.

I don't think the AWB technology is quite up there yet so I'm one who's quite happy to make my own choices - try it and see how you get on.

A couple of Pentax items among my listings this week: link

There's an ME-F that requires a little fettling (or would make a good spares camera as the cosmetics are good), and an M50/2 in excellent working order albeit a little scruffy around the barrel (clean glass though). Both starting at 99p without reserve and I'd be suprised if either go much above a tenner by the end of the auction.

Also some Minolta MD and Praktica PB stuff this week - all bits from my spares or repairs mountain which I'm dribbling onto eBay in stages. And a fantastic 1930's clockwork movie camera in Bakelite - who needs 720p HD video?

The names of the lenses are printed around the front element. The latest weather resistant ones have a "WR" printed next to the rest of the name.

The three variations you'll find (oldest to newest) are:

DA 18-55/3.5-5.6 AL
DA 18-55/3.5-5.6 AL II
DA 18-55/3.5-5.6 AL WR

The 50-200 follows a similar pattern so if it's got "WR" at the end it's weather resistant.

That was quite a good review actually. Don't see many of those these days!

Some of us have bought far too many

Short answer; yes.

If you want to do it on the cheap then the Pentacon 50/1.8 can usually be had for around £10-20, is pretty good and you can't go onto a certain auction site without tripping over hundreds of them.

If you're after a Helios 44 as smc suggested then go to your nearest charity shop / car boot sale and expect to pay around a fiver, usually with a Zenit camera of some description attached to the back of it. They are quite good lenses (a copy of the pre-war Zeiss Biotar made in Russia, usually but not always by KMZ) but I've personally found far greater sample variation in these than I have in the CZJ offerings. All the lenses we've been talking about here are 20+ years old by now (some much older still) so a lot will depend on how they've been treated (dropped, used as paperweights, stored in damp conditions - you get the idea).