With the Pentax Adapter K, first screw the adapter onto the back of the lens. Then bayonet the lens into place on the camera. Sunsequently, you than then mount and dismount screw thread lenses as required. In essence, you have converted the K bayonet body into a screw thread body.

When you want to remove the adapter just operate the small catch with the tip of a ballpoint pen, or indeed a small screwdriver, and rotate the adapter. If you hold the camera throat downwards the adapter should fall off into your hand.

Hope that helps!

No doubt Amazon were a little early. I'm sure that other suppliers are already preparing their web pages so that on the release date they just push the button.

It has however given an intriguing glimpse to those who were quick enough off the mark.

Pentax User is run by the ePHOTOzine groups, Magezine Publishing, created by Peter Bargh.

It springs from Pentax User Club, which Pete took over the running of some years ago now.

All the info about it is in the website - just look under Home tab.

I rather like the blue version. I had a steel blue X90 for a while and it certainly looked good.

The three variations are on Amazon and marked for release on 25th June.

It will be interesting to see what the details of the spec are.

Just to remind everyone that the actual Competition comments area is traditionally kept clear of comments until the judge has posted the results.

I've removed the comments that were starting to gather there - this is the thread for discussion.

Bear in mind that some lenses actually don't move as a unit. Usually 50mm ones do, but Pentax also engineered some wide angles that have a stationary rear element or group. Zooms of course break all the rules, with different groups moving independently.

Lovely image, the light is superb. I also like the use of the roots as foreground interest and lead-in. I think I'd rotate it slightly counter-clockwise as it looks a bit tilted to me.

Thanks bobmartin, but loooking for a manual focus body. Unfortunately I'm not very keen on the pre-MZ series AF bodies.

Do appreciate the thought though!

I too liked the magazine. I liked writing for it as well.

I have a huge pile of PU magazines that date back a long, long way, not a complete set but pretty good. You can't replicate that with an on-line version. Someone could wander in to the house, pick up a few of them and start finding interesting things they didn't know. On the web you have to search. It's a different process.

If anyone wants any back issues, they have almost all gone, but I have kept 5 copies each of all the issues remaining, just in case anyone ever wants any. PM me if intersted in any particular issue and I'll see if any remain.

Surefly though if they were posted they would be JPEGs or GIFs? We don't post TIFFs to the web.