I have two rolls of Kodachrome left, but all I could do with them would be to process in black and white. As it is, I show them sometimes in "The Way We Were" camera club talks.

You could shoot a wedding using the 18-55mm kit lens. Wedding photographers managed very well using TLRs with fixed lenses and twelve shots per roll of film, so we have little problem with equipment these days.

You need people skills first and foremost, along with technical skills with whatever equipment you use. You need to be totally, absolutely familiar with the kit so that under stress you don't make mistakes. You need an assistant to get people organised and assemble groups, find where the bride's disappeared to and all that sort of stuff.

When you say you have the opportunity to start shooting weddings, what sort of opportunity? How is this arising? Answers to these questions might help us to visualise what sort of postential problems might need addressing.

I've removed the other thread, please only post one subject once.

Many thanks.

Now the weekly competition is over, I thought it might be interesting to show how the idea I had for my picture "Nightmare" developed.

The original shot, uncropped, looks like this:


The first thought was this:


I thought the remains of the original hair adornments and other bits were distracting, so I went on to this, the final version:


The actual effect was gained through playing with levels and various filter effects in Photoshop. Exactly what is lost for ever, but an infinite number of possibilities exist. The intent was to create a ghostly nightmare looming out of the dark, the things we might see in terror in the pitch black of night.

What lens are you using? A few lenses have AF/MF switches, as well as the aforementioned selector switch on the camera body,

If you go to this page: http://www.pentax.co.uk/en/Photo-Downloads.html#MediaTypeID4 there is a link near the top that directs you to the firmware updates on the parent website in Japan, in English.

No personal attacks on Pentax User. It's not necessary and is definitely against the rules of the site.

The Pentax UK site has the firmware updates.

There's also lots of technical info on the product pages.

The mount is polished stainless steel, so needs to stay polished preferably to prevent excessive abrasion and wear.

The K mount on the camera can be adjusted if necessary, but I wouldn't use any accessory that seemed to fit badly. Why not sell it on, it might fit another K mount better, and look for something else?

Looking at a couple of quick comparisons, and depending on what you choose an an equivalent, other marques are pitched from around £6199 to £10,595. Those are established prices, so I guess the 560mm will fall in price yet.

Academic if we only use use Pentax of course.