Reading the above with interest... I have used a Minolta 4000AF flash on my camera a couple of times, although strictly speaking I bought it for off-camera use. (It's an old standard hotshoe one, from before they brought out their weird non-standard fitting)

Guess I have been lucky, as the flash and camera seem to work OK together. There is a spare pin for TTL which is on the opposite side to the Pentax pin, but it just sits on the blank upper-left contact when mounted on my K7 hotshoe.

Of course when I say 'work', I don't mean the TTL works - I never expected that to happen! But the 4000AF has 1/1 to 1/32 power settings.

I have aslo seen people talking about using old Nikon flashes on their Pentax DSLRs, on the 'other' forum...

Get the battery out, all the ports open, and camera into a warm dry airing cupboard. If you can place some hydrophilic substance such as silica gel, rice even, near the camera, so much the better. Leave it alone until you're sure it's dry before attempting to use it again.

Sorry, cross posted!

Any idea how the water got in? Rain ought to run off, so was it sat in a soaking wet bag perhaps?

Or maybe some water got into the lens when zooming - I'm pretty sure some moisture gets past the seals, possibly enough to cause steaming up.

Anyone see that photography bit on the One Show just now? Stack Polly although I'm 110% sure that's NOT how it's spelt. Staic Pollaidh or something daft no doubt.

May try and attend, got a mate in Chezzy so could pop over before giving him a visit.

That's the one. I had one for a bit - it was very scratched though so it cost me about 110.00 (sold it for 130.00 :mrgreen

Excellent little lens.

I've been giving you duff information Iain

The SF series don't let you use Av mode with DA lenses after all, but they do have Tv mode.

The list of compatibility is here: http://www.mosphotos.com/PentaxLensCompatibility.html

In short

PZ-1p, PZ-1, PZ-20, Z-50p, PZ-70, MZ-6, MZ-L, MZ-7: Full DA/M lens compatability.

[MZ-50, ZX-50: stop-down metering with manual lenses]

And basically any camera later than the ProgramA will give you use of DA lenses in P mode.

I want whatever he's on!

Agreed - they were quite impressed with the camera, but bent over backwards to nitpick and cast aspersions on Pentax wherever possible! And the prose couldn't have been any more dumbed down.

'Swappable-lens model'? Jeez.

I'm guessing they are using the camera in Live-view, CDAF. 'What's a viewfinder'? :LOL:

But the comments caused me actual physical pain.

Can't really help but interested as to why you'd go down this route rather than the wireless remote which only costs a few quid, and for that matter, wireless flash triggers (actually doesn't the 260fGZ have wireless capability built in anyway?)

I've seen the M20 on Ffordes for between 230.00 and 290.00.