I am 'pentaxpete' on Flickr and try to keep the torch alight when I can but must admit I have been uploading photos from many of my 'other' cameras lately, especially a 'Free Gift' 1930's Voigtlander 'Brilliant'.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25850987@N03/

I can process 'Real' B&W films at £1-50 a roll 220, 120, and 35mm but NOT with 'scans' -- PM me if interested . ( Next day service ! )

Thanks for THAT 'Link' -- I tried it and the shutter count was the same as the one on 'AP'magazine -- 12,486 ( I have not used my K10D since ! )

In 'Amateur Photographer' magazine there was an article on how to find the number of Shutter Activations -- easy ! go to www.myshuttercount.com and upload a copy of the last photo taken and it comes up with all the exif data and shutter count -- I found my K10D was 12,486 from new.

Over many years I have learnt that the 'General Public' do not hold photography in very high priorty -- they will pay anything asked by Plumbers and Solicitors but if you say a Press Re-print is 4 shillings and sixpence they exclaim " WHAT -- all that just for a PHOTO ?? !! " -- then many years later when someone has died the FIRST thing they want is PHOTOS -- I had a man contact me about a photo I took for the Brentwood 'ARGUS' in 1973 asking if I still had the negative as his Son had died aged 42 and he was 14 when I took his photo and could I help -- well, all the 1973 negs had been dumped on the order of Wife No. 2 so I had to copy a 4/6d press re-print I had done -- it was all creased up -- they never look after their photos !

steven -- thanks for that timly advice -- needed it many years ago -- but have been third time lucky with the Filipina Lady with whom I started another family 'late in life ' !!

Thanks for looking at my portfolio -- I took out the 6x7 Mk II last week and have one worth uploading I think -- I used the 200mm f4 lens on outdated 2005 Ilford Delta 400 -- it was free 10 rolls from a studio photographer who came to my Club and asked " How mant people doing FILM ? " and of course, my hand shot up and he said he had a fridge full of film and wanted to clear it out for his beer so I went with my boy and he gave up about 80 rolls assorted 120 and 35mm fillum !

I remember going in for that Competition -- I had a black Spotmatic at the time I later gave to a girl friend who broke my heart by going off with a divorced Policeman -- they live down the road from me here now and she sends a Christmas card ! Then I got Wife No. 2 to whom I gave an MX and she went off with the Vice-Chairman of Barking Photographic Society and took the MX ,a 120mm f2.8 SMC-Pentax-M and Sigma 400mm f5.6 -- now wife No. 3 is NOT British origin-- she is Filipina and I got her a NIKON !!!

I got my 6x7 Mk II with a 135mm f4 SMC Takumar macro lens, several filters, Billingham Bag for £ 500, mint condition in about 1999 or 2000 from a bloke who got it from a photographer who couldn't pay his car repair bill and gave cameras instead -- there was a beaten up Mk I as well, a second Mk II in not such Mint condition and a Mamiya Universal camera . I sold the Billingham bag to a local Press staff photographer at my Camera Club auction for £34 so I got some money back -- I have some 6x7 Mk II samples in my 'Portfolio' and took it out just today for a run, loaded with 2005 dated Ilford Delta 400 film and various lenses.

I got a 120mm f2.8 M series brand new from David S. H. Leung of Goodmayes when I got my bayonet Pentaxes -- ex-wife Number 2 went off with it and now lives in Malta evidently with her new bloke !