Apart from Advanced Camera Services, anyone know of any other (UK) based reputable parties offering this service?

ACS charge £250 plus VAT for an *istD - I have a spare body available and would quite like to get it done soon whilst my liquidity is still good.


Steve

If you filter the film cameras category on E-bay with Pentax and then AF, you might just find a couple or 3 *ist up for sale at the mo.

HTH


Steve

Definitely sounds like duff advice.

Doesn't stand up to a basic logic test, let alone any scientific scrutiny.


Steve

Dan - could also try FastStone's Image Viewer. Don't use it for anything other than as an alternative viewer myself but it has a full set of tools. It's free for personal use.

It's got a sibling, Photo Resizer which I find really quite useful for batch file renaming and image resizing - i.e. for making posts of images to PU or other web sites.

Try link


Steve

For cheap, cheerful and uncomplicated - MZ-50. Plenty around, so don't attract any premium as a result. Never found any problems with mine when loaded with slide film


Steve

This will be my second time - first time I had the choice of relocating to Crewe or take the brown envelope. Bath v Crewe - no contest! That time it was under an unlimited weeks pay for each year - so I got 22 wks which equated to £19K.

Fully relate to the way the severance money drains away - took me 7 months to get a another offer I felt comfortable with. Fully expected to trowser the great part of my package - learnt a lot about how useful all your contacts realy are.

S

Thanks for all the kind thoughts. At bit of a low point last night when I made that post, as I think you may have noticed. Forum is very thinly populated at 3am UK time - just Don on line and me (passing through).

But as I hit 55 19 days before I'm (probably) terminated, can collect my pension immediately Not a vast sum - but more than job seekers allowance, so no humiliating trips to the Job Centre to explain why you haven't found a post, or the 6 month reviews

Sadly, I'm a victim of the cuts to University funding ahead of the new fees set up. Funding holes have to be filled one way or another, and there is always a human cost

And before anyone asks, my lens and body collections are NOT for sale



Steve

Been a sh*t day . Been put under notice my post is being made redundant. If nothing comes up, then it's goodbye and thank you come 30 June. Severance is stat only, so I'll get the princely sum of £5400

In my general work area, which is property related, not a lot of options for a generalist like me, and in current climate, even less.

Sorry, bit heavy for a pointless thread but apt as well, no point in worrying. No kids and no mortgage, so could be a lot lot worse

The problem with faults with film bodies is you don't always know you got a problem until your rolls come back from being developed. My *ist had a sticky shutter which wasn't evident in use. Probably came with it but I didn't run a check roll through it before going "down under", so can't be sure either way. Anyway, what came out was fine, and the MZ50 covered the slide record without a hitch. The third body was a bridge camera, but I can't discuss it on this forum....



Steve

*ist was the last of the film cameras, so works with the later variants of the AF lens - the so called crippled KAF2 ie the FAJs and DA's (most will vignette though) as well as the F & FAs (and the M/F lenses).

It's a nice body - although mine developed a fault which lost me about a third of everything taken in Aus/NZ (had 2 other bodies with me, so not a total disaster ). I can't find my handbook, but it will do 2.5 frames/sec in continuous, has 17 customisable functions (one of which is probably to leave the leader out - F12 on an MZ-S). They aren't that common on fleebay, so usually fetch good money.

For info on bodies - try here - absolute mine of info on everything Pentax from the start of the K mount era,

link


Steve