First off, to quash any possible rumours to the contrary, I am not switching brands, I'm sticking with Pentax.

The following equipment is simply being re-homed because I don't use them enough. If you can give any of these items a good home, pleas PM me.

All lenses include original front and rear caps.

Prime lenses
SMCP-A 24mm 1:2.8 - £165
SMCP-K 50mm 1:1.2 - yes, the fast one - £275
SMCP-M 50mm 1:1.4 - £60
SMCP-F 50mm 1:1.7 - very small ding on the filter thread but does not affect fitting filters - £160
SMCP-K 500mm 1:4.5 - a beast of a lens - includes hard case and original Pentax caps - £625

Zoom lenses
Pentax-F 28-80mm 1:3.5~4.5 - non-SMC - £15
SMCP-FA 28-200mm 1:3.8~5.6 IF&AL - Black - with hood - £85
SMCP-FA 100-300mm 1:4.5~5.6 (with power zoom) - £60

SLR 35mm bodies
Pentax Z-20 - strap, body cap, original manual - £20
Pentax MZ-6 - strap, body cap, eyepiece cap, hot shoe cover, manual - £65

Sundry bits 'n bobs
2 x Pentax K-M42 adapter incl. release tool - non-OEM - Bower, Made in Japan, sourced from Canada - flush fitting - infinity focus maintained - £15 each
Pentax Synch Cord F 5P - 5P plug to 5P plug - Suitable for connecting hot shoe adapter F to any suitable flash (AF540FGZ and others) - £15
Pentax 4P Synch Cord B - 3 pin Hot shoe adapter to 4P plug - suitable for any Pentax TTL body and suitable flash (AF400T and others) - £15
Pentax screw on lens hood - round, black plastic, 49mm threaded, for standard lens 1:1.4 50mm or 1:1.8-2 55mm - original case - would suit the SMCP-M/SMCP-F 50mm lenses above - £20
Tokina filter kit - 35.5mm thread - to suit Tokina 350mm mirror lens, may fit 500mm too, 1 each skylight, NDX2, NDX4 - with spanner, in wallet - £20

Signed for & insured shipping will be charged at cost, collection from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire is possible.

Payment by bank transfer, cheque, Paypal gift - buyer pays fees.

I have done a lot of research into pricing and I think I have made fair estimates of each item's value. If any item is priced inappropriately, please let me know and we can discuss.

PM me if interested in any of the above.

I think the OP wants to buy one Kris. At least, I assume the WTD: in the subject means 'wanted'.

If it's current, any Manfrotto stockist will have one.

Good decision, you know it makes sense.

Now, whatever did happen to that pre-production K7?

Thanks for bringing me back to earth Mike. I'd forgotten that particular aspect.

I got about 34mpg on average out of the Defender (200TDi). Being a 2 ton brick made the P38 RR a lot more thirsty and I was lucky to get as much as 30mpg from that.

I'm happy with the 65mpg I get from my Citroen C4 for the moment.

I still lust after a Land/Range Rover. In the past I've owned a Series III hard top, Defender 110 CSW, and a P38 Rangie, my favourite.

I'm ready for another one now.

I'll be keeping mine for a while yet. Just look at how the OOF areas are rendered by those lenses.

If you never plan to use them, sell them. If you are happy that your other lenses produce similar enough results, sell them. If you could use the money for other things, sell them.

Otherwise, keep them, and use them.

Simples.

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Welcome. Can you elaborate a bit please.

Which ringflash? Pentax has made 3 in total.
What's the problem? Fitting any of these flashes to that lens should be no problem at all as long as the front lens element doesn't rotate when you zoom or focus. If it does, you need a different lens.

You have a PM.

The sensor in all of the 6Mp cameras is the same CCD, Sony I think. Whether the mounting is the same across models I don't know.

AFAIK there are a couple of conversions that can be done for better IR performance.

You can either replace the filter that is placed in front of the sensor with plain glass or an R72 filter.

The plain glass option will still require an R72 filter in front of the lens for IR, thus restricting the view in the viewfinder to just about nil. The R72 option means that the camera will be IR only but with normal viewfinder brightness to aid focussing.

The *istD and *istDS (and maybe DS2) are the only DSLR's that can make use of the TTL features of some flashes. Whether that's of any use in an IR camera, I'm not sure.