Useful, thanks for that.

If you have a magnifying eyecup O-ME53, I'm interested.

This shot is not up to your usual standard I think. It appears to be very noisy.

I like it as it is. GMT is probably 'maintained' by something very much smaller nowadays.

#2 might actually work better in B&W. Have you tried it?

It does, but not tempting enough for me.

I think #1 (my favourite subject) could use a tighter crop.

Nice series.

There are others, made by Sigma and Metz but I've no personal experience of them.

Of the non-Pentax products, Metz seems to receive good reviews from owners here. The Sigma is often criticised for it's complicated menu system.

The obvious answer is to use another AF540FGZ. It's standby mode can be disabled.

It's wireless capability is only really reliable up to about 4 metres though so a radio trigger might be required. 25 metres is a big ask for any optical trigger.

Long story but I'll try to keep it short as possible.

We have a number of feral cats where we live, one of which we've been feeding on and off for about a year. She's a queen and to our certain knowledge has had at least four litters in that time and none of her offspring have survived.

We've known when she's pregnant and we've known when she's had her kittens because of her size change. One kitten which we also fed survived for about 12 weeks and then just disappeared one day.

Now to the present day. My wife and I returned from our Granada trip to find the queen (Esmeralda - Spanish for Emerald, she has bright green eyes) and two new kittens under our shed. We know these were born on 28th/29th September so they are just four weeks old. Later the same day I heard one of the kittens calling in a very distressed voice and went to investigate. I found both kittens in our swimming pool, one in the skimmer and the other near motionless floating face down in the middle of the pool.

I fished them both out, dried them, warmed them and now, four days on, they are doing fine.

Now to my dilemma. The queen is still coming around, she knows the kittens are in the house and when she calls, they occasionally answer her.

The question is, do we return the kittens to their mum with whom they will almost certainly perish, or do we continue to hand rear them and domesticate them.

One of the kittens has been to the vet and I asked him the same question. His only question in return was 'does she still have milk?', the answer is, I don't think so.

Everybody say "Ahhhhhhhhhhh", taken with K20D, DA* 50-135, AF160AFC flash.