Both have a tilt head. The AF360 is fully automatic (PTTL) not sure about the Metz.

If a 'dumb' manual flash is adequate try a Pentax AF280T (I think it does have two power settings): £30-40.

Or a Cobra AF700 (only one setting will be available - full power!): £5-15

There are many other Cobra flashes available but the one above is the only one I've tried, and it's quite powerful. It's safe to use.

Has anyone recently got the DA15mm and has one of these now a bit redundant?

That's gorgeous. The wires really add something to the composition. Good idea cloning out the lamp tho.

I had to get a new car too Ken... my beloved bright blue Micra (with orange 'Aztec' pattern seats!!!) got shunted at a roundabout

I got another one in a nicer shade of blue and with a less offensive interior, costing about the same as a new K-5


I did buy myself a K-5 ( on order ) a couple of days ago, but that is nothing to do with cult festivals. [/quote]Anyone fancy a (bah) humbug?!

Dave

I lit this by setting the camera on a tripod on a 30 second exposure (I didn't have a remote cable for B shots to hand) and discharging an old flash unit (by pressing the test button) two or three times. If I had had two flashes it would have been easier because I could have set them off in turn, getting round the recharge time!

I did a trial exposure without flash first until I was happy with the exposure of the sky and streetlights.




The camera settings are here: link (actually that's a slightly different shot but the settings are the same).

They are very good... although I do like the idea that suppliers only send out the units in order of serial number, carefully ticking off each one before they are despatched!

And has anyone noticed that the pre-VAT increase prices have been held?

I think you mistyped 'twit' Mowog!

I'm sure Pentax do have a bunch of Westernised trendy young things in their offices. Unfortunately they're probably all on Facebook or coming up with ideas for user-customisable compacts in a range of candy colours.

There's a lot of lovely lenses you can buy for a lot lot less than 200 quid.... buying those screw in things is just wasting money you'd be better off investing in things like manual primes. A Pentax 50mm f1.7 or 28mm f2.8 would be under 50 quid for example.

You could spend a little more and get a proper Zenitar 16mm fisheye lens... not as extreme as the one Don mentions but only about 100 quid second hand. The image quality is legendary.

Failing that get your screw-in adapter as cheap as possible... even if it's shite it still might be fun in a throwaway kind of way.

Please PM me if you have one you'd like to sell.

Cheers!

Will

I thought the K-7's price decline was interminably slow! Or at least that's how it felt at them time... The K20d dropped relatively quickly before settling out. link

I agree it's hard to see what improvements could erode interest in the K-5 from the point of view of existing Pentax users. There will come a point when Pentax need to re-price the K-5 against other interesting models from Canikon though.... and for all it's benefits, the Pentax system does struggle against the big two in certain aspects. On paper, at least...