It's 1970s vintage from Pentax Club. Sue and I both had one, but her's got broken....

Just following on from comments about how extensive or otherwise the pentax system is, I thought it might be interesting to think about the items that are exclusive to the various marques.

Starting with Pentax, how about the following exclusive items:

Pentax Nocta (IR flash and 300mm lens for surveillance)
Pentax Quartz-Takumar 85mm f3.5
Pentax Ultra-Achromatic Takumar 85mm f4.5
Pentax Ultra-Achromatic Takumar 300mm f5.6
Pentax 250-600mm zoom
Pentax 400-600mm Reflex Zoom
Pentax 135-600mm Zoom
Pentax Limited Lenses
Pentax Ghostless Filter
Asahiflex Copy Camera

Any others we can think of?

I was almost lying on the ground to get this viewpoint of the statue looming over me. I ended up trying it through PortraitProfessional just to see what would happen and I'm not sure the end result isn't slightly macabre. Those eyes and the slight colour in the lips look like the real person is trying to emerge....what do you think?
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Excellent, good answer!

Ah, you knew. A friend of mine called round and I made coffee, causing some amusement as I raised my coffee mug, emblazoned with "Simply Hold a Pentax".....

Now where can I get Pentax wallpaper?

I disagree, it's still true. Pentax are streets ahead of the competition in terms of ergonomics and the elegant simplicity of their engineering style.

Some examples of this are the virtually complete backwards compatibility of all lenses since the A series (and some compatibility for the earlier ones), the simplicity of controls on lenses without things like Nikon's fiddly AF/MF switches, the inspired Quick Shift facility, the extensive weather sealing, the large range of high quality prime lenses, the continued use of the pentaprism finder giving a vastly superior view compared to Nikon and Canon....

Forget the hype from the magazines and just look at the product and you will not find it wanting.

Too much complication will spoil a potentially useful list.

When it comes to book buying there are also sources like Abebooks, so there are alternatives. What alternative auction sites are there? Any good ones?

Enter the Forum, scroll down and one of the sections, next to the bottom, is called Your Photos.

Look at the Your Photos section and at the top is "How to post images"