I saw a review of this screen shade (or one very similar to it) in a recent magazine. It had a good report but it apparantly needs a bit of practice to close it down. I think it has side 'wings' which might be difficult to close one-handed.

Can't help you with the cable switch I'm afraid. Ebay is a good source for those. I think there is a german seller of them, a delivery from China will take several days.

90 shots ? Strewth, that's a mini movie . . . on one frame? Is there really ever a need to do that? I'd be interested to know some examples of situations where you might need more than 2 or 3, maybe 4 shots superimposed. Personally I've never purposely double-exposed, I was never that creative

Good luck Carlo, I look forward to being educated in the art of multiple exposures.

By the way, welcome to the forum.

I can sort of understand a desire to perform interval (stop motion as its known in video terms) shooting but why on earth do you want to superimpose images on a digital camera? You can take two perfect separate shots then superimpose them on your PC. Doing it in-camera (and just because the camera can do it is no excuse for actually using it) you risk destroying both shots.

Forget in-camera superimposing, its outdated, unnecessary, and more easily done with a better chance of success on the PC.

The other wide zoom you might consider is the Sigma 10-20mm. I have no personal experience of it but users on this forum give it a reasonable write-up. The only zoom wider than the 12-24mm available from Pentax at the moment is their 10-17mm fisheye zoom but again I have no personal experience of it. Check the Pentax lens development roadmap at http://www.digital.pentax.co.jp/en/lens/roadmap.pdf' .

I would agree that to have both the 18-55 kit lens and the 16-45mm is silly, unless of course you have 2 X DSLR bodies. I bought a DS with the 18-55 about a year ago. Then I bought a D with Tamron glass for which I have just bought the 16-45mm. In common with others on this forum I find the 16-45mm to be a far superior lens to the kit lens.

You could always buy the Jessops kit and the 16-45mm then sell the kit lens. Just don't expect it to fetch very much. Alternatively ask Jessops how much trade-in they'll give you for not taking the kit lens. When I bought my DS it wasn't actually a kit, it was 2 separate retail boxes. 1 X camera + 1 X lens.

Hope that helps.

Absolutely right Not sure the other method would work or whether it'd be half as much fun. No disrespect to moles you understand, adorable creatures . . . unless they've made their home in your lawn of course.

You sure its not a stealth pigeon ?

Great pic, I like the top down view.

BTW, I live in High Wycombe, about 5 miles from Stokenchurch. The sky is full of Red Kites over there because its where about 20 pairs were released some years ago and boy have they multiplied. I stopped the car one day last summer and although they were circling on a thermal, I counted 28 birds. I get them flying through my back garden quite often but I've never got the right lens on the camera at the time. I'd love a shot of a pair, one passing food to the other. I think the male drops food and the female turns upside down in the air to catch it. Superb spectacle, but again, I've never got the camera with me when I see it. If they keep multiplying at the rate they are going they will soon revert to a pest species, which is why they were killed off in the first place (not that I agree with killing birds of prey, although they are actually scavengers). It'll not be long before we see them spattered on the motorway, a bit like we do pheasants now.

Here endeth todays nature lesson. Tomorrow we learn how to kill a mole. Now there's only one way to kill a mole . . . If you like Jasper Carrott, you'll know the rest.

Ken,

I don't think we are at cross purposes. The Winder ME II has a 'take the pic and wind on to the next frame' button. That's what I'm referring to as the shutter release button in my post. When detached from the camera, if you press this button the winder winds continuously, but only when the button is pressed, not when the 'mode' switch is changed from off to either single or continuous shooting, which I think is the original posters problem.

Yes, but only when the shutter release button is pressed, not as soon as power is turned on.

FWIW, I had one fitted to my Super-A that did this. I binned it and got another from eBay. They are cheap enough nowadays.

Regards,

Very nice short animation. By the way, the flower looks to me like a Hibiscus, they are used as hedging in parks in Spain and specimen plants in gardens.

Good work.

You could do worse than call Pentax UK. I needed a couple of service manuals for a AF280T flash and a Super-A. They emailed me .PDF's no problem.