Merry christmas everyone!

Now gone but that was a very good price for it. I have one in M42.

Nice photos but most look a little "muddy" with poor contrast away from the highlights and a slight green tint to the images. If shot in RAW then these could probably be altered without re-shooting.

Limiting myself to AF lenses I would second the votes for the DA 35mm Limited and the 16-85mm. The former is the best landscape prime I ever had for Pentax but if you buy then make sure that focus is completely accurate at infinity. If you read through the reviews on the US forum you'll find some that state it's not sharp at infinity but it is, you just have to make sure that AF fine-tuning is spot-on as it's very sensitive.

The 16-85mm is probably the best overall Pentax lens I owned for landscapes as it's got a great range, excellent sharpness, colour and contrast and it's weather resistant. The caveat for that lens though is that it's prone to mis-focusing at the wide end - the camera will confirm focus but the image will sometimes not be properly focused, to an extent which may or may not be visible in the viewfinder. This can happen with virtually any camera or lens but on my K-3 it happened more with this lens. So just make sure you confirm focus after shooting (which is a habit you should have anyway, especially for landscape).

There's no way these are genuine. Avoid.

I've found genuine batteries to last much longer (per charge and also lifespan) than cheap third-party ones. I know the price is extortionate but in the end you get what you pay for. I'd rather buy one extra genuine one than four extra third-party ones which will stop working in a couple of years.

Thanks for the responses so far. I doubt that a 3D printer could print something so fine as a focusing shim. I would consider DIY solutions as a last resort. The single thicker shim that I do have could serve as a template though it wouldn't be fun working with a craft knife on something so fine.

My K200D shims came from one of the UK official repairers at the time but I don't seem to have any e-mails about it so I don't know which.

Hi everyone, I've recently been able to buy a used (but seems new) Katzeye focusing screen with split prism for my K-3 and would love to be able to make manual focusing as easy as it is on my Katzeye-equipped K200D. Unfortunately, with the screen fitted with no shims it focuses slightly too close to the camera. There was one valid shim included but it won't fit on the underside of the screen, only on top (where it makes the problem worse) so I think it's just too thick. There were a few thinner shims provided but they are too wide and must be for a different camera.

Does anyone know where I could get some K-3 shims? I remember many years ago I bought in the UK a set of shims for the K200D for around 30 quid but I think Pentax stopped selling them directly to consumers some years ago. I've looked online and not found anything.

I have read of people using sellotape, which is not a route I want to go down. I could conceivably cut down the shims that are slightly too wide but that seems like it would be very fiddly indeed and would make them even trickier to fit. I could look for the shims for the old K200D but the focusing screens are different so I imagine the shims will also be the wrong size.

Thanks for any help provided.

TBH I wouldn't expect this to change in quite some time. If it gets superseded it'll be a long time coming and even then it will be rare on the used market and therefore hold it's value well, just like the K-1 (both versions) have done.

So a mark III when the mark IV comes out in 2032?

In my K-3 in some of the customer settings it seems to have managed to save f/4 as the aperture value so any time I use that and switch the camera off and on again it goes back to f/4. I don't think it should do that but certainly if you're using something other than a custom setting you've saved it shouldn't.

If the internal battery/capacitor was dead then it would prompt for the date and time every time you switch the camera on.