The idea of a project is sound. The ADAPS Year Book, for example, is now in its fourth year and we hope it will build up into a permanent record of what members were producing over a long period of time. Otherwise, there's no trace of people after a very short time indeed.

Websites are fine, but eventually they will not be maintained and paid for and will disappear to be replaced by others. A book or a print may have a longer life.

There are many happy hours to be had looking at old family prints, but there's going to be a gap now that digital has arrived. Virtually no-one will try to look at what's on an archive CD or DVD, even if they can still read it.

There is now an Articles section on Pentax User and articles could be submitted or suggested to PentaxDan.

There are also a large number of articles on ePHOTOzine.

Adding them into this forum would really clutter things up, especially as they are already with us in the appropriate place.

There is a tab marked "Suggest an article" so please suggest articles there if you so wish!

The ES models have very early electronic systems that can be less reliable than those made today.

A good Spotmatic would be fine, also the Spotmatic II or SP1000.

The alternative is a K mount Pentax body with Pentax Mount Adapter K. Then you have a vast array of Pentax bayonet mount bodies to choose from, from mechanical bodies through to relatively recent electronic ones.

All Pentax cameras are relatively compact compared to the alternatives of their day and all offer very fine ergonomic design.

I've done 10 photobooks using Blurb so far, here's the latest one:

http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2036471

It took 2 days to do, but that included taking in all the varied files and making them the same standard, so there was a lot more work than if they had been all my own shots.

There is no cure...

Then it isn't rectilinear, which means accurate and distortion free images. The 12-24mm Pentax lens is as good as these get. It may be that you have in mind the Sigma 10-20mm which I understand has wavy distortion that varies from barrel to pincushion along the edges...not very good for architecture.

Get a lens intended for architectural subjects and you should have no problem.

First, admit to yourself that you just want to buy a lens. Not quite any lens, but the 35mm and 10-20mm lenses are quite different in application, so you have an open mind to some extent.

Then analyse what is missing that you can't achieve with the lenses you already have. Once you know this, it should clarify what lens you want.

Or even need....

This is the first time I've heard of such a thing - certainly my 55-300mm doesn't attract dust.

If you need to disperse a static charge theree are small guns, carbon fibre dusters and probably other solutions. Perhaps a clean with lens cleaning fluid would remove whatever is causing the problem.

I don't presume to judge - Turbolister mass error or deliberate, life's too short to look into it!

Try Amazon, I haven't looked recently but last time I did there were lots of colours of K-x, with different prices for many of them. Choose an unpopular colour and perhaps there might be a bargain.

Try Chris at SRS, I think he had some red K-x bodies at one time.