SMC Pentax-A, or F, or FA 50mm 1:1.7 is perhaps the nearest equivalent. The A version is manual focus, the F and FA are both auto focus. Using the older K or M versions takes a bit more work to get correct exposures so I would avoid them for now.

The A version was the de facto standard lens supplied with Pentax film SLR's in the 80's so there are plenty of them about at reasonable prices.

Some A versions of this lens suffer from a sticking aperture ring so beware. The lens requires partial dismantling to fix a broken post which supports a small leaf spring.

SMC Pentax-FA 50mm 1:1.4 is excellent and reasonably priced brand new whilst they are still available.

Enjoy your new camera.

Me too.

Have a look at http://www.phototraining4u.com/

It might be what you are looking for.

There should be a SMC Pentax 135-600mm f6.7 zoom available from a well known shop in Watford after tomorrow.

Not the kind of lens you'd want to carry around all day at 4+ Kg, but if you have a very strong tripod, it should do the job from the comfort of a hide.

Yes, really.

It's also possible that the device has been formatted using Windows format utility and something other than FAT32 was chosen for the file system.

You probably used a fast film, and pushed it some. The results were probably grainy too.

The maths are quite simple really, use as large an aperture as you can for the required DOF (a fast lens would be needed), a shutter speed as slow as is necessary but without any camera movement (a tripod), and if that's not enough to get the right exposure, wind the ISO up (it would have been ASA in your film days :lol.

You could always use reflectors to throw more light into the scene if the scenario allows for it.

It probably needs to be reformatted with the software that can be downloaded from here.

It must be formatted as FAT32, and not with Windows format utility.

As you delete files from it, the space occupied by those files does not then become available for more storage. Eventually it will think that it has no space left and report 0.0Gb Free space, hence the need to reformat it using their own software utility.

But the only one that sold went for £319.00 and it didn't even have a genuine Pentax body cap. The others with BIN prices of £stupid.00 haven't sold.

And there was me, feeling cheerful . . . thanks Shim . . .

Actually, my research showed them going for around $450, so I'm still happy. Dealers will inflate the prices a bit I guess.

Thanks Danny but I rang Chris this morning. He has one waiting for me.