Ah, it's here: http://www.kyphoto.com/classics/seal/Mirror_Damper.pdf

Funnily enough I've bought an MX in very similar condition and am attempting to replace the lightseals and mirror bumper myself.

The lightseals are straightforward, and kits are available. I've removed the remnants of the old material already - a fun hour with cotton buds moistened with alcohol and wooden skewers. 1.5mm foam strips are on their way for installation!

The mirror buffer on mine was half hanging off. (Yours is totally absent by the look of it). I can see that the foam is meant to sit in a sort of groove behind that black plate with the two screw threads. I will extremely carefully remove it with tweezers (looks like it will come away easily in one go - haha famous last words) and install new foam in its place. I will not be putting alcohol anywhere near this part of the camera, or going at it with wooden skewers or anything like that. I will keep you posted as to my success (or otherwise :shock

There's a tutorial I was looking at somewhere, I'll try and dig it out....

As far as the metering goes, test it against your DSLR... mine seems spot on!

Of course if you're planning a CLA, you might as well get the seals & buffer done professionally at the same time...

It can't ever seem to remember you are an English speaker though, can it? Hakuna matata, Alan!

I think I might go to Wolvo's next fair (Feb 5th). I won't take my camera though, my lenses might 'catch fungus' from all the ancient dusty glass on sale! If it is full of grumpy old farts... well I'd probably rather that than the over-eager sales reps at something like Focus on Imaging

Nice set! I like the fourth in particular. HDR?

Surely it can't be that difficult to recover your Yahoo login... Unless you were daft enough to sign up without an alternative email, or make a note of the password somewhere?

They're probably just putting the finishing touches to those exciting products we've all been waiting for...


...their new range of Q bodies and lenses

Ridiculously low price here! Wish mine was this cheap, but I do not regret buying it! (I paid £125)... I guess the high price this lens commands is because Pentax don't have a fast 135mm currently, and this one still performs well by today's standards.

Some shots here. Plenty sharp wide open if you nail the focus, lovely bokeh and narrow dof. https://www.pentaxuser.com/forum/topic/birmingham-artsfest-30400

In terms of your sharpness ratings, I'd give the 10-20 a 7-8* and the Tamron 17-50 a 9.5.

* Presuming you can nail focus with it, and at 12mm and UNDER the edges are more like a 6 because of the distortion correction. But you will see distortion with any ultrawide lens at the extreme wide setting.

I can hardly imagine two more different zooms than the 10-20 vs the 18-250 so it seems an odd question. But anyway. After looking at lots of reviews and images I concluded the 10-20 was better than the Tamron 10-24. I would not want to rely on cropping to get the missing focal lengths in your line up though. Buy ultrawides to use at their designed focal lengths. For 20-35mm the kit lens or even better, something like the Tamron 17-50, would be much preferable to cropping.

In fact unless you really need ultra wide, just cut to the chase and get the 17-50. It's awesome.