Great deals, I'll keep my eye out!

Yes that's the one! I didn't play much attention to it in the listing, mainly worried about the contents, but it's actually a lovely case. Got a very faded KLM Royal Dutch Airlines sticker on the bottom, can't make out the name on it sadly. All adds to the aged charm.

Wow thanks for all the advice everyone! Amazingly it came with the original instructions, all in a hard leather red corduroy lined box!

You're dead right as well, it's main setting is aperture priority. That's that sorted then!

I've picked up a Fujicolour 200 for £3 which I'll just get developed at boots or similar for now, want to try it out first. If I find I'm getting on well I'll keep and eye out for a Rondinax. That look pretty amazing, and I don't have a room suitable for darkroom use.

My ebay purchase of a Pentax MG and 50mm and 135mm lenses with Miranda flashgun arrived today. I bought it mainly for the lenses actually, tried them out on my K-r and still in excellent condition.

The camera looks to my untrained eye to be in remarkable condition, I can only assume it was barely used. I'd like to give it a go, but as a young-un I've actually never used a film camera.

Any suggestions for what film to get? The seller suggested Fuji pro 400H film or Fuji Superia, good choices?

Also, when I use my DSLR it sometimes takes me a couple of shots to get the right exposure in M mode, but obviously you cant review them on a film camera - Am I better off leaving it in what I think is basically Av mode to ensure I don't burn through rolls of mis-exposed film?

Hello! I'd love to see some of your motorsport stuff - I guess you've seen the "Your photos" section.
I have a interest in motorsport, I've only been to Pembray in Wales. I visit Swansea from time to time so I've seen a couple of races up at Pembray, but that was before I got my K-r so no decent photos.
Can't really offer you any advice though, I'm also a novice!

Well you're obviously a lot more familiar with Pentax than me but hello!

Where would you pick that up for less than a tenner? It's on for mostly £30 on ebay.

No I don't think it'll be like the ipod. the ipod blew all other mp3-esque players out the water, the Q looks good but not that good.

Plus most people who take photos of their family/ hols etc don't want to bother with a changable lens camera, so it'll never hit the mass market in the way ipod did.

These are a few photos from my first couple of days out with a K-r with the 18-55mm & 50-200mm kit lenses.

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IMGP0186 by ldsandford, on Flickr

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IMGP0282 by ldsandford, on Flickr

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IMGP0276 by ldsandford, on Flickr

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IMGP0273 by ldsandford, on Flickr

I took some RAW images whilst out and about yesterday, but on trying to view them in Picasa 3 the programme seems completely unable to render the image colour effectively. I'm not sure exactly what the problem is, but a red balloon becomes blue - The pictures are obviously not usable.

After a quick google the problem seems common and without a fix, does this mean Picasa is just not for RAW images, or am I just missing something?

Can anyone recommend an alternative bit of free software if this is the case?