Handy for those times when you've forgotten which film you had loaded?

Still rumour, whereas the headline got me thinking this was an official announcement. The rumours are beginning to coalesce into something plausible though. There are still some things that don't ring true; the D600 sensor which the article suggests may be shared by the 'K3', is actually supposed to be made by Aptina, not Sony.

The image is obviously a quick PS job!

I presume he's just found these two going cheap. If the SF7 is very cheap, go for it. I would not want to pay much more than a tenner Who cares what it looks like, although the PZ - Z series is slightly nicer IMHO (not pug ugly, Kris!), and the MZ6/MZ7 is much nicer. These camera feel and operate a bit like DSLRs, using a front 'wheel' to control aperture, which is nice. They have total compatibilty with all K mount lenses in terms of operation.

(On the SuperA you need to change the shutter speed in Tv mode, via push buttons on the top of the camera, to get the aperture to change - which is less convenient. It is a very nice camera though, great viewfinder).

You could look for an old thyristor auto flash (the Pentax AF280T comes to mind).. just engage red or green auto mode, and set the ISO and f-stop according to what the flash tells you. These flashguns are available on ebay for a few ££ if you are lucky so it's a low-risk dip-your-toe-into-flash.

If there was a cheaper, equally satisfactory, way of getting what the DA15 ltd offers, I would have found it! I have been through a Tokina 17mm (not quite wide enough and a bit heavy), a Sigma 24mm 'Superwide II' (lovely but not remotely wide enough - a great 35mm substitute on APSC though), a Zenitar 16mm fisheye (wonderful, but a fisheye and the novelty of the distortion soon wore thin) and a Sigma 10-20mm (really good lens, great value, but it's a comparitively bulky zoom) before putting an end to my craving for the DA15mm.

You're right, AF isn't really that important, but there just aren't that many MF options; there is an old manual 15mm but it isn't quite as good as the DA15 ltd, and isn't cheap because it's so rare. It also has a bulky front element, whereas the DA15 ltd is about the size of your 28mm.

The only relatively cheap prime at 14/15mm is the Samyang 14/2.8, very good, but quite large.

Daz, you have some nice IR shots... which filter are you using with your K7? I always thought the K7 (unmodded) wasn't great for IR photography.

Welcome to the forum! Sounds like we have similar taste in kit! I love using the 75-150 on my K7. For a 14/15mm lens, that's a difficult one if you're looking to use a 'legacy' lens - I'd keep your eyes peeled for a DA15mm Ltd; they come up fairly regularly in the classifieds.

The sky looks fine, great even! Funnily enough when I open the shot in PS, the sky is a less cyan-y blue, but either way is good.

Good sharp capture (there's a bit of softness but I suspect it's a PP thing - give it a little sharpen after resizing). It wouldn't hurt to up the shutter speed a bit though, and go down an f-stop or two. I would also play around with the crop a bit more to give a more pleasing composition, maybe less central?

I guess the answer is don't use it in the rain!

That's good to know. I picked up someone's Canon 1Ds III by the (kit) lens the other weekend, and instantly felt I had infringed camera etiquette!