No, the remote has a stereo plug. The problem seems to be that the resistance between the pin and the sleeve when the switch is open is only about 20k, which both my *istD and my K10D seem to think is low enough to be closed! Don't know if this is a design flaw or just I've got a duff one.

Chris,

did you buy yours from the same place as that listing? Having waited 10 days I now have one from them, but it doesn't work When I plug it in the camera just keeps shooting continuously...

What sort of range do you get with that?

Me too. The SP 17mm f3.5 is also a superb lens, and incredibly wide on film.

Thanks for the info Dan. Currently trying to justify the expense of a DA*300 to myself. Autofocus isn't really an issue for me as I almost never use it, but weight certainly is.

Was that baikal teal in the wild?

Steve

So Dan, are you ditching this in favour of the DA* 300? How do the two compare?
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You need to be careful with Ricoh mount lenses as although the mount is basically the same they sometimes have a locking pin which can lead to them getting permanently stuck on the camera. This can be expensive to fix!

No, that thread was about a K lens where the body can't read the aperture info but it can stop the lens down. With M42 lenses the body can't stop the aperture down itself.

You'll have to use Av metering (not M) and use the aperture ring on the lens. The aperture will actually stop down as you turn the ring (unless there is an A/M switch on the lens) so you'll want to open it up to compose and then close it down to meter/shoot.

It's a bit of extra faff, but the good news is that you'll actually get accurate metering, unlike K/M lenses.

Steve

Much better. But with all the O/N/P products listed alphabetically, Pentax comes last. So if I click on "Digital SLR Cameras" there are three screens of Olympus and Nikon before Pentax. A minor point maybe, but on the (horrible) old site you really seemed to be pushing the Pentax brand with (badly-resized) Pentax logos end everything.

Oh, and the picture accompanying "K200D + 18-55mm, Tam 70-300mm, Case & 4gb - £529.00 inc. VAT" shows a K200 with D-BG3 and DA* 16-50, though if that's what you get for £529 you've got my order!

Steve

Also
http://m42.artlimited.net/
and
http://www.adaptall-2.com/