so you just need any stream or river with a decent flow, or a waterfall really.i don,t know Portsmouth but would have thought along that coast there would be somewhere for a seascape. also you do not need the sun in a sunset, imagine being stood in front of a hill the sun goes down behind it but it can stil bathe all the clouds and sky in a lovely red/orange glow which if your on the coast gets reflected in the sea, this makes amazing pictures, let alone being an amazing sight to see.

or it is drawn upside down and is one of the KMZ log,s, mine has the shishkebab but is missing the arrow head, mine is 44-m4

what are you actually trying to achieve with your long exposures?

you could come up into Wiltshire,chalk downs with white horses carved into them, google "white horses in Wiltshire" for locations,Salisbury is only about 40 miles or so from Portsmouth, you have the historic city and Salisbury Plain, if you come up a bit farther there are the standing stones at Avebury. i would say a couple of hours from Portsmouth you would be into the south Cotswolds

it is M42 fit, i have one that came with a Zenit given to me, tried with an adaptor on K5 and i was pleasantly surprised at the result.

my first SLR of any type was K7 ,i tend to associate names with products and to me the name Pentax immediately made me think of cameras, it has been there since i can remember as a maker of cameras, none of the others actually made me think camera as a main product with them.

you have a pm, Daz

you are quite right ,sorry not explaining very well, i set the camera up without the cover and then fitted the cover as i had read you had to do then had to re adjust the shutter speed to correct the exposure meter.

even using manual, if you set your exposure for arguements sake with 10 stop nd with no cover you will get "x" shutter speed put the cover on and the shutter speed will be longer by seconds, i have had it make a 10 second difference with 14 stops of nd filters. bright sunny day went from 15 to 25

in a/v mode after you set the aperture with the viewfinder open to the light place a shade over it and the shutter time alters, quite a lot in certain cases,i always use the shield on long exposure.