Would anyone like a genuine Pentax M42 mount adapter. These cost silly money when purchased new but are probably more reliable than cheaper 3rd party alternatives. It is good condition and I am looking for £22 posted to UK addresses.

Bought this in June for my DFA 24-70, but having just moved to a lighter system after many happy years with Pentax, this filter is surplus to requirements. It has been used a couple of times only and is therefore as new. Would anyone like it before I list on ebay? Looking for £20 to include postage.

I beg to differ. SSDs are not particularly expensive and you only needa small capacity one to contain your opetaing system and programs - data goes on the usual hard drive. I have a 250GB SSD and it makes the system much faster - in particular start up time is reduced to seconds. Whether you can do it yourself depends upon your level of expertise and confidence in doing it. I got a local computer firm to do mine. I would highly recommend the upgrade.

Lens now sold but pending payment.

When I bought a K1, I retained my K3 thinking I might continue to use it, but in the event I found that I prefered to use the K1 and the K3 was gathering dust and losing value. In many ways the two cameras were too similar and I felt that I might use a second camera more if it was clearly different and suited to different occasions. I PXd the K3 and 16-85 for a smaller and lighter camera from a different maker, so I am in effect running two systems and intend to use the second system for street and travel photography but will continue to use the Pentax for the rest.

Any interest at £110 posted - otherwise I will try ebay.

I would go for one and four as my picks but they are all stunning.

Not to worry John, although it put me to some trouble. I could not quite see how I could photograph the marks any better than I had done.

The message to which I was replying in my second posting seems to have disappeared! Very odd!

I have trialled this program which looks very promising but its Achilles heel is that it runs very slowly on my PC and takes ages to open a RAW file even though my PC has plenty of RAM.