in my experience, unless "it" is a mouse, the answer to this question is almost always "no"

If the squeeking wasn't mentioned in the original sale and the seller is a reasonable person there might be some milage in exploring a partial refund, after all he's already acknowledged that it did it while he had it.

Canon EOS DSLRs have a very short mount to image plane distance, so that would be your best bet I would think. M42 lens to EOS body is a common use case, I'm not sure if K lens to EOS body is doable but if it's not, you're basically stuck.

I beleive the idea is that if thieves know an item is unlikely to be useful/resaleable then they are much less likely to nick it in the first place.

nice captures, I particularly like the clouds which add interest where they would normally be a problem for an astro shot.

Purely as an asside and not a comment on your images, I think I've been using equitorial mounts too much, I now expect the stars to appear static and the house to trail!

My Dad has one with a particularly amusing customisation, the pentaprism must have taken a whack at some point in its life, so that the world as viewed through the SP500 is always at about 10 degrees to the horizontal. Makes composition....interesting

Thanks for the kind comments everyone, I'm glad you like them.

#2 is my favourite shot of the entire holiday, made all the more satisfying because I saw the Giraffe walking along the ridge, realised it was going to pass right in front of the sun and for once actually managed to get the crucial frame right.

Gamka, I couldn't believe how close we got to some of the animals, as you've spotted the Lion cub in #1 is a little way away so needed 300mm and a slight crop, but on occasions we got close enough that if I had opened the door I could have reached out and touched them. I'm not sure I'd have wanted to do it in an open sided Land Rover, ours was enclosed with a pop-top which gave a nice balance of the feeling of security and the ability to get an unobstructed view. Before I left I was concerned that 300mm might not be enough, but in the event I only wanted more once, and on that day even if I'd had a Bigma I still wouldn't have got the shot I wanted.

#1 is one of those shots which disappoints you to begin with, then you come back to months later to realise actually it's ok. The shot I really wanted was the next in the sequence where the little guy yawned and looked like Simba working on his roar, but my AF let me down at a crucial moment and that shot is sadly out of focus. This one was a consolation prize at the time but now I really like it.

So the last time I was active on this forum was a little over two years ago. I was preparing for my wedding, and packing my bags for the trip of a lifetime on Safari in Kenya.

It occurs to me that I never shared any of the results, so better late than never:

After much deliberation and some useful advice from this forum, I elected to take the K10D with as many batteries and memory cards as I could carry, plus my 16-45, a DA 55-300, 90mm Macro and 50mm f/1.4 (I never leave home without it).

In the event, about 90% of the photography was done with the 55-300.

Here are a few of my favourites from the trip:

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I don't know, sure a lot of them are taken with the DA* glass, but there's at least one shot in there with the 18-55 kit lens, another with the DA 35 f/2.4 entry level prime.

what Mike said! seriously jealous

My thread about focus adjustments on the K10D was sparked because I'm seeing what appears to be focus issues in my pictures, and I want to rule out the possiblity that the camera is doing it wrong so that I'll know it's my fault.

If you're not getting focus problems in your images, don't worry about it.