Well if you are claiming for both the camera and lens you may do ok out of it depending on if they let you keep the broken items.
If they do then you should get your £125 back without much trouble.

Look at it as an opportunity, home insurance .. K10D no longer made .. new high end Pentax model = K20D

Ah, no .. thats my sensor, it needs a good clean.
The water was crystal clear

I did think about cleaning it up a bit in Elements.

Yes, not a bad purchase, maybe this one was better though ... one sold last week for £202.00

Thought I did quite well with THIS yesterday, the lens is nowhere as good as my SP 70-210mm f3.5 but worth it for the mount alone.
My 2 most used lenses are Adaptall 2 mount - 90mm f2.8 and SP 70-210mm f3.5. Had my 35-80mm f2.8 lasted more than 2 minutes it would probably be all 3 in my bag and not much else.

I did read somewhere (although I have no idea where) that SR needs time to work and you are supposed to hold the shutter button for a certain (short) period of time.
Not sure how that would work in continuous mode though.

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Went for a walk down to our local park and in with the ducks and swans were a few Terrapins including this little chap. (Well I presume its a terrapin anyway).
Tamron SP 70-210mm f3.5













And a duck thrown in for good measure.

Thanks Peter, I will email them later to see if they can do anything.
Looks like we are moving back to the UK in the next few months anyway so will sort something then.

Just annoying as the first copy of this lens I got from Ebay had a sticky iris, I used this one for a couple of minutes and then that happens when I clean it.

Hi, I have a SP 70-210mm f3.5 19AH and love the lens so decided to buy it smaller brother the 35-80mm f2.8
Anyway, I managed to find one in decent condition on Ebay and got it for a good price, mounted it on my camera and all was good.
Noticed a speck on the rear element so got my lens cloth and gave it a good wipe over and in the process a retaining (circular) piece came out with the cloth.
Now the lens is stuck at around 50mm and will not go any wider.

I would really like to keep this lens so does anyone know of a service manual or even better a repairer of lenses.

Thanks.