The rules for shipping you link to are for air transport. This link to RM policy might help:

http://www.royalmail.com/sites/default/files/Royal-Mail-Prohibited-and-Restricte...

It is possible to send a lithium battery installed in a camera, plus up to two spares in the package. Why the two spares can't be sent as an item on their own is a bit of a mystery, but rules is rules!

Batteries can be sent if correctly labelled and packaged. The details are on the Royal Mail website. If the RM options aren't appropriate then other couriers will transport them, if correctly labelled and packaged.

There should be a cover for the winder connection, it would be very vulnerable without one. Every Super A and Program A I have owned has had one in place.

The sepia version is more in keeping with the subject matter.

Enough talk of trolls if you please....

Let's all get along and accept that some users have different priorities. I will however take Nigel to task (slightly!) on his assertion that Pentax don't listen. They have actually introduced almost everything members of this forum have ever asked for over the past 10 years. Video is the last bastion of the Things to Do list, probably quite rightly as it is a fairly minority interest for a marque that concentrates on stills photography. I predict that it will come in time, as development and money become available for it.

But to go back to the point, we wanted a digital Auto110, we got the Q sustem. We wanted full frame, we got the K-1. We wanted a longer lens than 300mm, we got the 150-450mm and the 560mm. We also got quite a few surprises we didn't know we wanted, such as taking the AA filter away and introducing Pixel Shift technology. Oh, and Astrotracer....and....well you name it.

I think Pentax do listen, and do what they can, as and when they can.

The days of 6 or 7 element 50mm lenses are long gone at the high end of things. With all the aspheric elements, ED and Super ED glasses and highly complex designs, plus inbuilt focusing motors, lenses are getting bigger.

Fantastic! Well done Nigel.

There's a lot to be said for Kodachrome, the most stable colour film ever made. Kept dark and cool it will keep its colour longer than anything else. In the light it will fade faster than E-6 process films such as Ektachrome, but the latter won't last as well long term.

There is a strong resurgence in the use of film, prompting the re-release of Ektachrome in 35mm size.

The cameras may well be in demand, or at least good ones are. Sorry I can't help with a Super A!

I just took the Q-S1 plus the MX-1 that's always in my jacket pocket.

I was intent on shooting black and white, so made sure there were no distractions from carrying more kit than needed.