It's probably like Marmite - you either love it or hate it
ePhotozine has many LB pictures:
ePhotozine gallery images with Lensbaby as the tag.

Thanks for the heads-up though - I was thinking that the Pentax User mag price of £60 wasn't too bad. Nice to see SRS are better! LOL!

The drop in price of the Lensbaby v2 is most likely due to the release of 3 new Lensbaby designs - just announced at Photokina.

Hope that helps!
Matt

Don't forget you can always reduce the amount of light - attach some tissue paper with an elastic band for example. Admittedly it will always contribute, but not by so much

When I used the AF160 with the ME-Super/MEF I cut a little piece of black insulation tape and had it covering the main tube of the AF160. Definitely reduced the amount of glare, and it became a permanent fixture!

Matt

Viewfinder - you could even go the DIY route, get some strong nylon webbing (or leather even), cut some short lengths and sew them onto the camera. Then attach your rings to that.

Optech do various attachments - but they may not have things the right way round for you. Worth a look though Another place to look is 7dayshop - there may be something in there to do the job, or that you can "butcher"

Matt

Mac - I didn't know they did camera bags!
Matt

Clarky,
You are partly correct... yes, flash tubes typically discharge at around 300V DC (just don't whatever you do touch the capacitor! It'll surprise the life out of you )

However, the capability of the hotshoe sync voltage is another matter entirely. In the "good old days" when cameras were clockwork, the flash pin was shorted to the camera body with a simple mechanical switch - so sync voltage was almost unimportant. With modern cameras you do the switching with electronics - and this is where there's variability in what can be supported!

Canons apparently handle up to 6V. Put any more than that and you pop their hotshoe discharge circuitry . Nikons can handle three or four hundred volts on the D300 (it's mentioned in the manual - can't remember the exact figure). Pentax is solidly built too offering maximum support with older units.

You'll never tell from looking inside the camera... unless you know exactly what you're looking for (and even then you might not find it!!).

There's a lot of worry about this - but I've never heard of a Pentax dSLR being popped by a flashgun!

Matt

I use the Sandisk Extreme III SDHC 4Gb cards. Picstop are selling them with the "SanDisk Micromate" - which is an incredibly fast USB2/SD/SDHC card reader
Matt

Personally, I just love the Optech strap The strap has high strength plastic buckles that can be quickly released - very helpful when doing macro or tripod work. The strap is fairly pricey, but it's lasted very well indeed and has a wide neoprene strap with anti-slip nodules on.
If anything happened to it I'd buy another in an instant
Matt

Cool
Just to clarify Kris' comment. The AF360 supports two slave modes - P-TTL "intelligent" slave mode, and "dumb" slave mode. Incredibly useful. I started using the AF360 as a slave to a Canon S30 compact digicam
Matt

Absolutely Check out the little video of the cornstarch
More references: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymatics
Matt

Don,
It was something to do with the strange way that viscous liquids form regular patterns when vibrated at certain frequencies. They'll start out all random, then all of sudden will form a regular pattern. At different frequencies there'll be a different formation. It's really quite bizarre!

Just been Googling... it's called "cymatics". (All I could remember was it reminded me of the word gymnastics! LOL!)
e.g. http://www.rmcybernetics.com/projects/DIY_Devices/homemade_cymatics_display.htm


Matt