alfpics, many thanks for pointing out the weight issue. I've removed the entire panel of eBay info, obviously those are going to need careful checking before i use them in future.

This might sound ridiculous but it hadn't even crossed my mind. Having been tasked with getting the best price possible on eBay, that's the mode I was switched into.

Obviously too single minded by three quarters...

It's a great move. Collectors will need one of each....

Because if ever my friend or his wife saw me with their old camera, they would for ever more just wonder if they'd been diddled, even though they wouldn't think they had been really. Doubt is a terrible thing that causes problems sometimes.

No matter how above board, it just doesn't sit right.

What weight? I wasn't aware I'd quoted any. I must check the eBay pre-loaded stats to see if that's what you mean and correct them if needs be.

I know, but it would still feel like cheating! Thanks for the thought though.

I've not been able to offer them here first, because I was commissioned to put them on eBay, but you might like to know that currently I have three very desireable things on auction.

A very nice MX (literally one careful lady owner!), a boxed Adaptall 2 PKA adapter and a virtually unused Pentax Adapter K. I was amazed when i opened the case and found these things. And very tempted to keep the MX, but I would have to bid along with everyone else and I'm not sure how that would work anyway.

My user name is johnriley1uk.

No. Not unless it's one specifically designed for a lens.

The moon will be a challenge to the optical quality of a lens (bright subject, black background) but also the clarity of the air will as well.

I've never taken a decent moon shot, but then we rarely get clear nights. The Isle of Arran was great for clear nights and more stars than we've seen around Manchester for over 40 years.

Well I did learn the value of older computers today, after three hours trying to extract some files from Sue's old Nokia phone to use on her new iPhone.

Three Vista and Windows 7 machines just would not have it at all, but our oldest Windows xp machine did the job just fine. Three hours....

It is one of the reasons I shoot JPEG. Will we all be tearing our hair out in 10 years time when PEF and DNG files just won't be opened?

The first bit is where Damian Demolder is disussing the new Samsung NX and talking about snobbery with marques. He says he uses a Samsung GX10, which can be sneered at, but that "some people will even buy a Pentax in preference". Even indeed. Would we stoop so low Damian?

The second thing is the "Letter of the week" which could have been delivered by someone spouting in the local pub and which really has a go at Pentax. We could reute most of what is said in the letter, but why make attacks a Letter of the Week (for any marque) and then put a reply of a couple of lines that seems to be in agreement.

I was disappointed, as I did think at one point that AP was really trying to be more even handed and dispel the widely held notion that the world is Canon/Nikon biased.

I don't think it is actually, but publications don't seem as impartial as they were say 30 years ago, or even 10 years ago.

Just my opinion.