Vivitar series 1 now sold, pending payment! Thanks Eiko.

If anyone out there is interested in the FA, I'd do it for £40 + delivery - for less than that I might as well hang onto it, especially now that the other two have gone.

EB, have sent PM.
Tim

Set the camera to spot meter, and meter off his face/clothes, to avoid underexposure.
Also, if you're using the long lens, you'll want to use a tripod I imagine- he probably won't be moving that much.
If it's that dark, you may want to use the 30mm, but I'd imagine that you running around at the front with the 30mm might be just as distracting as if you were using flash- unless there's some other reason flash can't be used?

Crikey, getting tempting, but I really need to put the money into a new body. Whereabouts are you located?

Hmm. Without wishing to rain on anyone's parade, this sounds a bit like someone is talking rubbish.

I'm happy to be proved wrong, but lets think about it- a teleconverter effectively works like an optical crop device- it takes what image is there at the back of the lens, and enlarges the center section. It can't force the lens to draw in a wider view than is there in the first place. The only wide angle adapters I'm aware of, are those that go on the front of lenses, and draw in a wider view of light than the lens usually gets.

I'm pretty certain that users have tested the 18-55 on full frame bodies, and found very heavy vignetting around the edges- there simply isn't a wider view to be drawn on (at the back of the lens).

I suppose the fundamental problem is- if such a device was possible, don't you think it'd be commercially available right now?

Collect from where?

Bump- any offers on the Vivitar? £110 delivered?

My pleasure, hopefully give the lens a proper run in this weekend

They've been doing them for a few months actually- I nearly got my K-R from them, relative convenience in the event of issues being a consideration- although I have to say this was before I discovered SRS.
I was in their big Oxford Street store a fortnight ago, and they do have the K-R for sale, but not the K-5 (as I recall- I might have those two the wrong way round) but unfortunately no lenses or other accessories.

This sounds fairly close to what you want: http://www.pentaxforums.com/userreviews/sigma-24-135mm-f2-8-4-5-aspherical-if.ht...
It's not 'EX' graded, but I've had one for several years and used it with a good degree of success.
The onboard firmware used to disagree with my *istDS from time to time, but it's been trouble free with my new K-R.