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DA14/2.8 - very highly thought of by those who own one.

I picked up a K2 and K50/1.2 cheap on Thursday and was thinking it'd be nice to have a matching wide angle lens to go with them. Logged on here on Saturday and lo - what do I see? No point hanging around...

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I like the look of that Ektar - picked up a couple of 120 rolls myself but not shot them yet, the more I see though the more I think it might end up replacing Reala as my 100 film of choice.

Oh, and nice photos btw...

Having had most Spotmatic variants pass through my hands at one time or another you can't really go wrong with any of them. Having said that, my personal favourite is the original Spotmatic (often referred to as the "SP") which is all mechanical bar the meter. The meter was designed originally for mercury cells but thanks to the voltage-independent design you can use an easily obtainable LR44 battery instead, although you may have to pad the battery chamber out a bit with a piece of card to hold it in place. I've yet to come across one where the meter is actually dead and they're probably the easiest (and cheapest bar the SP500) to get hold of.

All the Spotmatic models are essentially the same size (reasonably compact) so if you want something smaller you'll need to look at the earlier models such as the S3, H2, S1a, etc. The built-in meter makes the Spotmatic generally more pleasant to actually use though.

The "n" model has a depth of field preview and an exposure lock, otherwise they're identical. The 5's would get my vote as favourite MZ series body - great bang-for-buck.

Great video and pictures. I'm in awe of the fact he can take enough shots to make a focus stack of ten hand held!

If it's taken you 17 months to figure that one out then it's not that big a fault...