(b) for the camera and (c) for the lens - but only with great care and never in the rain.

Then in 10 years when prices have reached astronomical levels (a) for the whole lot.

My apologies - I thought you did.

Never mind, you've got a Lydith so now you don't need a Flek anyway...

I've never seen a Zenit E from the Belomo factory before - very unusual!

I'm not suprised you like the Pentacon - it's a rebadged version of the Meyer Lydith, one of the most revered SLR lenses of them all. You might even find your Flektogon is now redundant...

Be aware that the lenses you have will only work at near-distance if you put them on your K10D. The FEDs and Zorkis have a much smaller registration distance so you'll lose infinity focus on the Pentax.

Having said that I've used 39mm lenses for macro work with excellent results and they would probably be suitable for portraiture too (as long as your subject isn't stood too far away). I got my 42mm>39mm adapter from eBay for around £3 but as John suggests you can also get them easily enough from SRB Griturn.

Once you have the adapter you'll start looking out for those Leica bargains...

Not really. Film beats digital by having a slightly higher dynamic range, however, digital beats film on cost / convenience / noise (all IMO).

When it comes to detail resolved I find images from my K10D beat images from 35mm film scanned to a high resolution. When I scan images from my 120 negatives to a similar resolution then there's fine detail present that the K10D doesn't even come close to.

If I could have medium format quality but with the convenience of digital I'd be a very happy user indeed.

That's the one that came bundled with the LX 2000 special edition (basically an LX in silver). Don't usually see them seperated so I wonder what happened to the camera..?

Another nice Sonnar. The 11 is a direct copy of the Contax rangefinder lens (often made with genuine confiscated Zeiss parts), the 11A was a slight modification to allow for a simplified manufacturing process. Both good lenses though.

Have you tried taking the batteries out and leaving them out for an hour or so so that any residual charge in the body can dissipate? If not, try that then replace the batteries with known good examples.

If that fails then you'll need to contact your local repair centre I'm afraid.

She's a Sonnar design so sharpness was never going to be an issue...

As for the bokeh I rather like it! Gives the lens some character rather than just turning everything to a colour soup (like most modern lens designs do).

120 film > APS-C digital > 35mm film (in my opinion)

Hence I think my days of shooting 35mm are very nearly at an end...