John the Pentax book said to get a 30.5 and fit it behind the hood . This is what I did .

bforbes - the hood is virtually flat and screws into the lens itself . This is a pancake lens

OK not a problem yet - but it may well be soon

Now I love my little 40mmLtd and have got a Hoya CPL for it .

This is indeed a 30.5 filter which is screwed into the hood - can do that - a wee bit fiddly thanks to my hands but it's possible.

Now for the problem - I understood that with a CPL on you rotate the filter to get what you want - so how do you do this when the filter is screwed into the back of the hood which is then screwed onto the lens ?

Suggestions please before I drive myself daft thinking about this

Welcome to the joys of Pentax

Well - for once we all seem to be in agreement

Oggy - I think a spoon would be less messy

Ems - I don't think I'd describe it as pure anything .

It's a monstrosity, fit only to be in a display case to show how you can maltreat a camera.

Imagine trying to hold it ??

YEUCH

I'll agree re the pencil v pen BUT both my daughters [ violists and clarinettist ] did actually use pens at times for marks on music . They used pencil until convinced of the markings and then used pen [ with permanent ink]

Also the use of the fountain pen on the final version helps to give the 'age' of the picture .

Hope it was a good day

When I visit my Godpapa he makes me an American Breakfast - a pancake stack with pancakes , bacon , eggs and then baked beans on the side - plus of course maple syrup on the stack

YUM

They are really cute

Hope you are successful keeping this lot

We used to tie our Dalmatian up at the garage door - get a watering can of warm water [ well he was thin skinned ] get into full wet weather gear and then bath him .

It really was a 2 person job, using about 4 watering cans of warm water and only attempted on fine days .

He may have been short haired but when a soaking wet dalmatian shakes himself and AWFUL lot of water comes off and goes EVERYWHERE .

After the scrub it was lots of nice warm towels and if it was a nice sunny day an immediate walk to dry him off - otherwise , barricade all the chairs and he would then lie by a radiator .