Considering what happened to him, I've always taken that one with a grain of salt.

Yes, new, as in I've never had one before and now I do.

As to the condition, it looks "like new" except for the eyepiece. If it happens to need a CLA it was still a good deal. Responds well but won't know about leaks until I develop the first rolls.

Wow, well spotted.

I wonder if horses have anything to do with pentax?

And yes, back on topic, the DA35 is a great lens (rendering, sharpness, colours, macro) and might be all one needs on a camera. But since I have plenty of other lenses I found I did not use it enough to justify keeping it. It was too "inbetweeny". It also requires you use autofocus, since the last microscopic twitch of the focus ring covers most of the range. I enjoy manual focus which this lens really only supports in the macro range.

My new Pentax 645N arrived today. What was the question again?

Should have called it Ziggy, more like. But davidbowie is a cool name.

My newest article The Perfect Camera Bag? reviews the Kata DR-467.

The Kata 467 is the largest backpack that can be taken on all flights with today's limited carry-on allowance. I may wish for it to be bigger but that would be counter-productive. In all ways it is an excellent bag.

If you do not care about flying there may be other choices, but photo bags do not generally have lots of space for other items. It might be better to locate a general-purpose backpack into which you can fit an insert for your photo gear.

I imagine they are large enough to be infected with rodents.

Steve, that definitely wins the anorak award for most duplicate lenses! I suppose I can justify why I have a larger variety of different lenses.

It's for testing. Yeah. That's why.

What bugs me (so to speak) is how one ant can know where the other is... they are always synchronised.