Wonder why Ricoh didn't resurrect the design for the 35mm f/1.4 from deep in the Pentax vaults?


It would have matched their other recent mammoths!

PS If you spot one of those M lenses at a boot sale or flea market, don't pass it by! It will make you very wealthy.

There's a repairer closer to you Haris at Newcastle-Under-Lyme: http://www.pjcrdirect.co.uk/
I purchased a lens that had been repaired by them from a dealer.

Probably best to ask him direct rather than rely on someone's complete guess to answer for him given you didn't even suggest which lens it is!

If one uses jpeg + raw it doesn't matter what the jpeg is like as there will always be the base file to reprocess as required.

To my mind the real 'Pro' Pentax was the KII. Much stronger built and designed for a hard life.
I knw the MX has been described as Pentax's flagship professional SLR until the introduction of the Pentax LX. but tyo my mind that was similar to Ricoh announcing the KP as the new top of the range APS-C camera to replace the K-3. I don't think anyone believed it but it gave the camera some gravitas amongst amateurs owning a perceived 'pro' camera who believed the hype.
The MX was certainly a good camera but intrinsically too fragile for pro use. I suppose the idea was to have it compared against David Bailey with his OM-1 as the lightest SLR. (Off topic but he recently auctioned his one off https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/burstow-and-hewett/catalog... )

Don't know why but now showing as cancelled.

March 2019 Panoramic Image Competition
This competition is to produce a panoramic photograph, be it with a wide angle lens and cropping it or combining several images taken at a more modest focal length. Please use this thread rather than the competition page if you wish to discuss anything regarding this competition.
Looking forward to seeing your panorama at the end of the month of March.
The competition can be found here.

So will 60009 ‘Union of South Africa’. Don't know the timing though.

Ffordes look to have just ruined their website. It was easy to browse before with options for A lenses, AF lenses etc. Now its an endless mixed list in no particular order with little option to show different types. Ugh.
One of their previous critreria was to show just, say, PK/PKA lenses.
Do a search for PKA now and it just says sorry! What's the use in that?

A Google search found this response to the same query. Whether it's applicable to your camera I don't know for as Vic says, you didn't say. Anyhow hope it helps.