I've got a silver 77 - it always makes other photographers do a double-take when I'm out and about, which is nice...

Oh yes, and it takes sublime pictures too! One of my all-time favourite lenses.

Yes, the Pentax Remote software is a bit rubbish (and I understand it's been dropped entirely for the K7 which speaks volumes).

You did well with the photo above though - can't have been easy to get them to stay still, look at the camera *and* take the shot all at the same time! Sort of job I'd have run a mile from

Sounds like a serious case of buyer's remorse to me. Perhaps he's not a photographer and just realised he's out of his depth?

The software is bundled with the K20D but obviously it'll need setting up on the PC you're using. Also, it's not particularly intuitive so it'd be best to have a practice with it before using it in anger so to speak.

I stand corrected! In my defence I've never actually owned one

They are by far and away the best built lenses I've ever encountered bar none (and I include such royalty as Leica and Zeiss in that comparison). It's quite a while now since the cheap Taks were dropped so maybe it's time for Pentax to bring the name back again? I think it's got a much nicer ring to it than "Limited".

Clarky beat me to it

Takumar is a Pentax brand.

In the old (M42 screw mount) days all lenses made by Asahi Optical were branded "Takumar" and bodies were branded "Pentax".

In the 1970's the company introduced the K-mount and all bodies *and* lenses were branded "Pentax". A few years later the Takumar name was resurrected for use on a small band of uncoated budget optics which are generally considered inferior to their SMC Pentax equivalents.

This tack upset a lot of Pentaxians as up until then the name Takumar on a lens had been a seal of the highest quality, the later lenses effectively killed Takumar as a brand.

There endeth the brief history lesson

I concur

It only moves from your outbox to your sentbox once the other person has actually read it - if it's still there then it just hasn't been picked up yet.

Strange, can't say I've ever seen the "Tower" suffix used before in reference to a K100D (or any other Pentax camera for that matter). Perhaps this was some sort of non-UK-market special edition? If it's a just a bog-standard K100D Super then I can't imagine there'll be many takers at that sort of price!