Not a moth.

Great opportune capture. Well done.

Yes indeed. I've downloaded the Pentax manual as it is more detailed than the provided Samsung version, but even then some things are glossed over as if the person writing it didn't really know themselves! The section on high speed synch is typical of that.

No.11 looks quite threatening!

Don't forget this closes at midnight tonight. There's still time to sort an entry out.

Your little F 35-70 seems far superior to my little F 28-80 (mind, if it had been really good I wouldn't have bothered getting myself the 28-105.)

Anyone care to try and guess what the mystery creature is?
I'll reveal the answer in due course.

Thanks Nigel, I downloaded your flash book so will have a peruse of it.
One thing I have found with the 540 is that it has a habit of jumping out of the hot shoe and it all gets a bit cumbersome when mounted, I used to use the old Sunpack on an extension lead with a sensor in the hot shoe, holding the camera in one hand (you could with an ME) and the Sunpack in the other and it all worked fine and easily. For some reason,, probably to do with the weight of DSLRs and lack of a hot shoe sensor comparable to the Sunpack one, the way I used to do it doesn't work for me nowadays, yet the old method worked every time, if only I could replicate it with what we have now! I just used to set the flash intensity to the distance at the aperture/ASA setting, I was using or let the sensor do its thing and all was well. But that was 30 years ago!
In a bundle of camera bits I purchased I acquired a small Cobra flash (designed for Pentax) which has quite a low trigger voltage, but that only has auto/manual, but the auto will be TTL, not P-TTL. I wonder why normal TTL is so difficult to build into current cameras when they can detect orbits of stars in relation to the earth, Time/date/geolocate stamp photographs, But TTL flash which has been around for years? No.

Thanks, Autozoom 3000 = 246 volts, so a tiny bit risky! In any event, the film speed dial has got stuck, albeit on 400ASA and I do have the newer Pentax/Samsung 540, but just too many options on that to consider bothering with it out in the field.
Maybe I'll risk dismantling the Sunpack to see if I can free the dial and hope the capacitor is well discharged so I don't end up electrocuting myself! Mind, until Alan put me onto the Hi-speed synch of the 540 I've always considered it a non starter. Even with that though it sounds from the manual a bit hit and miss working the exposure out. Whatever happened to normal TTL flash metering?
To use the old flash on a DSLR I did purchase second hand from someone in the States a Wein SafeSynch (couldn't track one down here) but that sometimes fails to fire the flash, another reason I haven't bothered much with flash. Also given the silly ISO's we can set now it isn't as if we're stuck at 25 or 64 ASA with Kodachrome so black cats in coal cellars are possible without flash.

Oh so true Nigel. Enjoyed your set here, seems you gave the new lens a rest!