Hi all,

If you use XP home, do the following..

Click Start | Run, and copy this into the text box.

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

click OK, and watch Star Wars ASCII style..

(The text takes a minute or two, but keep watching)

Cheers

Liam

Hi John,

I hadn't actually considered the lens itself. I took the kit lens (18-55?) not possibly connecting to the body perfectly, and the possible damage to the mount, as being the main problem.. but yes, lenses can be replaced cheaply enough.. mostly: 600FA apart..

Cheers

Liam

Hi,

no problem. Because the problem stems from the lens mount, rather than the electronic internals, it shouldn't be any different from an older AF body really.

Cheers

Liam

Hi Tom,

http://www.harrowtechnical.co.uk/

although they specialise in older Pentax cameras, I'm sure that if you gave Robin a ring there, he'd eb able to help you out. I've heard nothing but praise for him (and the shop) from this forum.

Cheers

Liam

Hi Tim,

with teh site being built with what looks like FP, it may be that the people running the site are new to it, and haven't got round to, or didn't know about using domain based email. Got to start somewhere, and forum software is freely available. TBH, I can't see where there would be any benefit to a scam.. it looks like a perfectly valid forum, that PJ has let us know about, as we're all Pentax types..

Cheers

Liam

Hi,

it looks genuine enough from what little there is to see so far.. built in Front Page by the look of it, so unlikely to be a big concern spamming.

Not much to go on, but if it's genuine as indeed it looks, then jolly good luck to them.. I've clicked it to my favourites, so I'll see how it goes.

Cheers

Liam

Hi Dan,

Riley Rule = buy only Pentax glass..

Cheers

Liam

Hi Jean-Paul,

you can get Uniross AA 2500 mAh batteries for around £1 a cell. A dedicated charger for maybe £10 (I can't remember off the top of my head how much exactly).. that's 2 sets of batteries and charger for around £20. You'll get anything up to 7-800 shots off one charge, I think someone here had over a 1000. You'll get perhaps 1000 charge cycles per set, so £20 will get you 1,400,000 shots.. ish. The same price as alkalines for maybe 2-300. Not a bad deal. They're readily available in most decent electrical or camera stores as well, or just buy off ebay.

Hope that helps,

Cheers

Liam

Hi Aktivo,

no offence meant and my apologies if I was mis-understood.

I just read the post wrong, and assumed (wrongly) that they were daylight shots, and that you had the same problem with short exposures as well.

I either say stupid things (often) or clever things (very rarely, if at all) and very little else.

Cheers

Liam

Hi Matt,

I couldn't get any EXIF data off the image, and as he said about shooting in the dark, I figured that this was a normal daylight shot..

My badddddd..

Cheers

Liam

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