I've never owned any Pentax-M lens, but I have an A lens and I like the ability to control the aperture from the body, and shoot in any mode I like. With M-lenses you don't get that - but then, they may be a bit cheaper, if that's your priority.
I have a Pentax-A 50mm f1.7 and although I have some newer and even faster lenses with AF, I don't think I'm ever going to sell this one. I highly recommend it to everyone. Reasonably priced, and takes great photos. As for the manual focus, well... practice makes perfect. You'll probably have to begin with static or slowly moving subjects.

This is a killer lens! At least my copy is. Very, very sharp from wide open, great colours and "feel", and always focuses infallibly, dead-on. Definitely on my "do not sell" list. I got mine cheaper, but your price is still cheaper than the price of a new one here in Slovakia, so I hope you'll find a good new home for it. Good luck!

Redbusa, 1018 people viewed my offer (final price was 300 GBP) and no-one showed any interest, so you're gonna need a ton of patience! But who knows, you've been a member for much longer than me, and you're from UK, that probably plays a role, too.. But then, I sold a 50-135 here in less than a week! Ah, god knows. Anyway, I've seen DA 21 being sold here for as little as 260 GBP, so maybe that's what people are looking for! Good luck.

I love "The Ghost Fairy And The Tiger" on page 16, especially the comment to it

Hmmm... you might be right, Daz. And I'm not capable of actually measuring the voltages and figuring out exactly which pin sends what signal. But still, there must be tons of more experienced Pentax users around the world and it amazes me that no one has figured it out yet. Well, there must be some catch in it, otherwise someone else would have done it a long time ago.

Hi all,
I know wireless triggers have been discussed here on the forum before, but I haven't found exactly what I'm looking for.
Although I've had basically zero experience with wireless flash so far, I've been thinking and reading about it and it bothers me that there are virtually no wireless P-TTL flash triggers available for Pentax at the moment (ok, there are those Aokatec ones - but how long will the camera battery last if you fire a flash every time?) So I was thinking: would it be so difficult to modify p-ttl triggers designed for other brands? And if modified, do you think they would actually work? Like, there are i-ttl triggers for Nikon, for example. The pin layout looks VERY similar to Pentax flashes, but ok, there must be small differences and the pins of a Pentax flash probably wouldn't touch the pins on a Nikon receiver. BUT, what if I took a transmitter and receiver for Nikon and changed the hot-shoe for a Pentax one? Re-soldered it? Do you think it might work? Is there any special Pentax 'protocol', any sequence of signals, that might prevent this from working? My thinking is, if the number of pins is the same, what the heck does it matter what sequence of signals Nikon or Pentax uses? All that the transmitter does is send signals, and all that the receiver does is receive signals, right? So if I could achieve correct contact between the hot-shoe and the camera/flash, it should work, shouldn't it?
English is not my mother tongue, but I did my best to make myself clear and hope you understand what I mean Your opinions are appreciated, thanks in advance.

Wow, great shots, Mike! I especially love the second one, the one with the birds... and the storm in the Sun's southern hemisphere

You must have trained hard with him to make him pose like this for you Great, sharp shot.

Hi Alberto,

is the DBG4 battery holder an original Pentax one? If yes, would you sell it separately, and if yes, for how much?

Thanks,

Juraj

I haven't tried them, so I can't comment on the quality/reliability, but Cactus make cheap flashes even with P-TTL support, unlike Yongnuo. Check gadgetinfinity.com, under "Light source" - I don't know if I'm actually allowed to say it out loud here. I've read about their wireless flash triggers and they seem to be quite good.