Wierd, but having swapped a couple of lenses and back it now seems to be working. Does anybody know if all the Spotmatics are compatible with the SMC 50mm f/1.4 lens?

Hi All,

I finally got round to running a film through my recently acquired SP1000 (it was queued up behind an S1a & K1000). There appears to be an intermittent problem with the mirror (I think) causing the shutter not to fire.

With the meter switch up when I hit the shutter release, the mirror seems to only go about 3/4 of the way up and the shutter doesn't fire. Moving the switch back down seems to raise the mirror fully and another press of the shutter release fires the shutter.

With the meter switch down when the shutter is released it seems OK.

Any ideas what might the problem (it was fine for the first half of the roll)?

Thanks, John.

I have the 17-70 and looked at the DA15, a nice lens but it wasn't significantly wider than the 17mm and I ruled it out on cost. The DA31 looks a fabulous lens, but I'd make do with my M 28/2.8 (or look for an FA28 ) for my film bodies. You said you have ruled everything else out, but my choice of focal length would be the DA21.

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If considering specific photo insurance, check all the exclusions very carefully. I saw one, where the theft from cars was additional and even then subject to the following:

1) Theft from cars with central locking was excluded.
2) Theft from cars with remote boot release was excluded.
3) Theft from hatchbacks was excluded.
4) Theft from an estate car was (surprising) covered as long as the cloth 'security cover' was drawn across.

It also required all alarms to be set and doors locked between the hours of 9pm and 9am for the property where the gear was to be kept.

My P30 has seals across the top, bottom and right hand side of the back (inset into the groove the door closes against) and the ISO window.

As I understand it, a shift lens has a larger area of coverage that can be shifted relative to the camera. Which should mean that the maximum shift in any given direction is larger on an APS-C sensor than FF (assuming there are no mechanical limits), I think?

Thought I noticed it too earlier today.

I prefer to pre-set the focus and move slowly in or out until it's in focus. I don't get on with handheld catch-in-focus as you don't know when the shutter will fire, it always seems to come as a surprise and I tend to jerk the camera as it goes off.

My 17-70 bought in early March is a 414xxxx serial number.

When I looked at the PentaxForum K1000 serial number database, it looked like the earlier bodies seemed to have higher serial numbers. But whether there is logic to it?