Thanks for the help, I will use the exposure comp trick that has been suggested.
johnriley - I haven't just bought your 35-70 K-mount zoom on ebay have I?

I'm looking to buy a Pentax K-mount body for taking photographs at gigs. I've been using my ME super and this gives okay results but the maximum film speed is 1600. Are there any techniques that would allow me to use a faster film, i.e. Delta 3200 (I've been using this but at 1600). I've read in some reviews of the LX that it is a handy camera for low light situations. I also been looking at the MX body, mainly to get rid of the fiddly shutter speed selector arrangement on the ME, but the fastest film speed setting on the MX is also 1600.
Any advice would be most welcome, thanks.

Many thanks.

I was just cleaning out the inside of my Pentax ME and I noticed some fluff caught on the thin strip of foam that you can see through the lens mount. As I gently picked it out, part of the foam just disintegrated in my fingers. It's only a small section. Will this affect the camera and anyway? And what is this foam for?

Thanks

Many thanks for the above link!

Anyone? Does 'N' denote a wide angle lens?

Dwight: I have been Google'ing for ages looking for the Cobra manufactures site but I have never been able to find it. Thanks for that.

Daniel: The three settings on the extendable flash head and their corresponding distance markers, run as follows. Head fully retracted - N, 1.1 to 12m. First extension position (the outer casing now forms something similar to a lens hood) - ST, 1.3 to 15m. Second extension position (deeper lens hood) - T, 1.5 to 17m. I'm assuming N is for wide-angle, ST is for standard focal length and T is for telephoto. This all seems commonsense going by the distance markers and allowing for the directional effect of the 'Flash hood' contraption but I'm still baffled as to why the first position is marked N and not W as it is on most other flash units.

I managed to download a couple of manuals for Pentax flash units and the operation seems largely the same. The only thing I'm still unsure about is the extendable flash head on the Cobra unit. This is designed for use with standard, wide-angle, and telephoto lenses. The extension positions are marked N, ST and T. I'm assuming ST means standard and T means telephoto so why is the wide-angle setting marked N? Or am I reading these wrong?

Thanks for the advice. You are correct, the TTL auto flash will not work with the ME super however the dedicated auto flash will. I'm assuming that this is why the shutter speed is set automatically and flash ready status is shown in the viewfinder.

I would be grateful if anybody could help me out while I get used to the Cobra D400 flash unit I have just bought. The lack of a manual has left me a little .. er .. in the dark.

I have set the control on the front to TTL. When metering through the viewfinder everything seems fine, with the exposure set to 1/125 and the flash ready indication working. So is it really that easy? I can just point and shoot? If I change the aperture will the flash automatically compensate?

Thanks for any help you can give.