The camera looks great and £20 is a fantastic price.

Miranda lenses are of two types - the original Miranda optics were not at all bad and Miranda made some interesting cameras too. When they went bankrupt (early 1970s I think) Dixons bought up all the stock and offered everything at very low prices.

Later, and I think this is where your lenses date from, Dixons used the name as an "own brand" which was basically a low cost option. On film I would expect the lenses to be quite good but not exciting. On digital whi knows, but it would be interesting to find out.

Matt - no I haven't had the opportunity yet, but if I needed to I think I'd approach Chris first to see how he could help.

Let us know how it goes!

And a cracking lens it is too.

It's hard to predict the begaviour of a zoom on extension tubes. They aren't designed for that and the results could be dire, or could be good.

Could you not try one out Matt? So SRS offer a 7 day return?

You were lucky that the card wasn't totally corrupted.

Always switch the camera off anyway before removing a card!

Here's a more conventional shot of the same peacock, this time without messing too much with the colour. Click on the image to see its full width if your browser doesn't show it all.
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I don't think I have anything to add to that, thanks but no need for any PMs.

We've made our plans and no doubt will have to set off at some ridiculous hour in the morning, but hopefully we'll be awake when we arrive!

I'd suggest you phone them up, talk to them, and I'm sure they'll sort it out for you.

Touche, but as you know it does depend on context.

I presume you are referring to the Classifieds section, where I hope we will stop undermining people's sales with discussions that can be happily held in the appropraite categories.

For the KX the SMC Pentax-M 100mm f4 Macro would be perfect and will cost less than an A version.