hmmm, that doesn't look very convincing on fullframe I'm affraid

Hey guys,
if there are any of you interested in old glass here I found yet another link for tests, Unfortunately they have only two Pentaxes tested, but for those who are interested either in comparison or conversion of other brand lenses this might be useful.
here's the link:

http://zone-10.com/cmsm/index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=10&Itemid=9...

Yep, MX is perfect mechanical camera and the batteries will last for ages, as they feed only exposimeter. Anyway you can still use sunny 16 rule for estimate. If there's a chance that at one point rescue will appear, than I'm also giving my vote to the MX.

On the contrary John, I found 31 limited to be probably the best option if you don't have any other lens. It has nice colour rendering, good sharpness of corners and flare resistance hence it would make a nice landscape lens, it has also great sharpness in the center and nice bokeh so it would do fine as a portrait lens ... and suppose we find some streets on desolated island, I'm pretty sure it could be used for street photography as well. Trouble is if you have more lenses available, then you can always find one that would be tiny bit better for certain applications like f.e. 55mm for portraits, 24mm for street photo etc.
Otherwise, I guess 31 is hard to beat as an universal prime. A pity I sold minem, now I have to gather some money to afford one again.

Thanks Matt, I will have a look at that Cactus V4

Matt, John
thanks...maybe I should look for IR trigger then. But would it be working allright with older flash like 500 FTZ?

Hi John, this sounds likely....I will check the manual if there's anything I can do about P-TTL when built in flash is set to trigger the slave. Ta for help.

Strangely enough, I was playing a bit with AF500FTZ and setting the flash to lead curtain solved the problem. I'm confused why.

Anyway Flash is now flashing properly....

Hi guys, I apologize if it was discussed here previously but I need your advice. I've just got AF 500 FTZ flash, works nicely in manual mode on K-5. But when I want to use it as a slave, I'm getting in a trouble. The thing is that although it flashes, triggered by k-5's built in flash, somehow the shutter lags approx half second or so. In the result I consistently end up with photo of darkness. Any idea why this is happening? Is there some setting in k-5 I overlooked?
Thanks for reading...
Martin

That's a difficult question.....my most versatile lens apart from 17-70 zoom is original Pentax 20mm f4.....yet optically FA43 Limited is tiny bit better.....it would be one of those two.

Hi Lenny, nice collection....lots of people mention that FA77 and A*85 share similar optical design. Do you find them performing in a similar way?