Well worth the play time. The sunlit window in no. 2 is a particularly good - literally eye-catching, it's hard to look away from it!

Steve

Be careful not to damage the screw heads. Japanese Industry Standard (JIS) cross-head screws are slightly different to Phillips cross-head. I've just bought a set of JIS screwdrivers in order to remove a mount (from an extension tube) and it has made it easier to remove screws without fear of damage. They were fairly cheap from a UK importer at the usual auction site, not sure about availability elsewhere in Europe.

Steve

A lovely set. No. 3 stands out for me - the caps of the toadstools seem to float effortlessly above the moss and the background sets them off nicely. Close-up nature photography at its best. As others have said, there's beauty in those toadstools.

Steve

Another nice little set.

Yeah, there are people who quite happily walk in front of cameras. On the other hand, last weekend someone apologised for their dog getting in front of my camera. Nice of them to do it. But why they thought the dog was within frame when the camera was pointing upwards into a tree and the dog was firmly on the ground is beyond me!

Steve

Brilliant! Portraits aren't my 'thing' but these made me stop and look. And you've shown what that little camera with a 'no bells-and-whistles' lens is truly capable of in the right hands. Did I say they're brilliant pictures? Because they are.

Steve
PS: Worth looking to Japan on the usual auction site for another Q. I got an 06 lens from there when mine died, a good experience and realistic price.

Good luck. And please let us know whether it's sorted. I'm always interested in things that might go wrong with a K3 and its siblings and how to fix them without a repair bill - for a fairly obvious reason .

Steve

I don't have that lens, but a quick search found the instruction sheet for a 17-50mm on the Sigma website. It says "This lens is also equipped with Zoom Lock Switch to eliminate the zoom creep when the lens is tilted down. Please set zooming ring to 17mm and set the zoom lock switch to the “LOCK” position.". So if that's the lens, that's what the switch is for .

Steve

OK, so we now know the lens. But even more important (for me :wink is what the flower is. Please????

Steve

That's the screw-drive AF coupler. It should be retracted as per your K3 when the body is set to MF and protrude as per your K3ii when the body is set to AF (or at least that's what happens on my K3 :wink. In the AF position, pushing a lens onto the camera pushes the coupler into its hole then it springs into it's engaged (protruding) position when the lens is rotated to fully locked and it's aligned with the socket on the lens. Pressing the lens release button on the body retracts the coupler so the lens can be rotated for dismounting. So check that the coupler behaves correctly both when switching between MF and AF (and back again) and when pressing the lens release button with the body set to AF. If it does, then the coupler isn't the problem, if it doesn't then it might be an indicator of something wrong with the AF mechanism. And try the old favourite of cleaning the contacts, if the body and lens aren't communicating properly then anything could happen!

Steve

Yes, No. 3 is the Special One. The right pose, the right light, and you even managed to get a decent background, too.

Steve