pm sent, Algi

Well the water isn't instantly harmful to a camera, if you're quick enough to turn it off and take out the batteries. Unless it is salty water, of course.

Hi Bjørn,
1000 is the max iso I find myself using on K-5 without worrying about image quality. Occasionally I do use 1600 or 3200, but then you got to work it out quite a bit in PP.

Tony, try to negotiate with seller. I once bought Carl Zeiss with fungus inside. Seller either didn't inspect the lens properly when describing its condition or didn't mention it by intent, I don't know. But he was allright to pay for dissassembly and cleaning of the lens....and that made a deal real bargain.
If you like to keep your lens, try to get seller to cover your service expenses as long as they're rational.

great stuff....that's my idea of spending time in far future - to have a telescope and clear sky....if I'm lucky to live that long and if I'm lucky to find a very benevolent wife, who will not mind empty bed from time to time
on second thought...this must be cool way to impress girls

Hi spooner,
didn't Olympus recently announce the new 4/3 dslr..upgrade to E-5? I would like to see Olympus back at SLR business

Hello Gwyn,
i see you bought a new 50-135 then? I was foolish enough to sold your old 50-135 too , although I was amazed by it and had no trouble whatsoever with SDM failure nor SDM speed and focus accuracy. On contrary I found it more reliable than screw drive autofocus of lets say FA77. The only problem was that the lens was little too big for me on K-5. But it is excellent lens optically and probably I will annoy some FAlimited fans but I find it more than equal to FA77. I can wholeheartly recommend this lens to anybody.

yes, i sold mine for £175 if i remember well......bloody wrong decision of myself

you could also check those:

http://stans-photography.info/
http://www.takinami.com/yoshihiko/photo/
http://www.pentaxforums.com/lensreviews/category-Pentax-K-Mount-Lenses.html

considering K01 and this Hasselblad...i will call it draw. Both are quite ugly.....appreciation of design is very subjective though