AngieC68,

Welcome to PU Forums.

The short answer is a scanner that will handle film or a copying attachmemt for a camera.

I think you will get more helpful answers if you give more information about how much material you have to convert, what equipment you already have, what you want to do with the pictures once on SD, how much you want to spend etc.

Michael

quoting others' posts Some use as long as people know how to use the feature intelligently and don't quote an entire long post repeatedly in a thread.

smilies Pointless eye candy for the kiddies.

signatures Depends on forum matter. Can be useful as in a forum like this where equipment can be shown. Ban images.

bold/italic/colours Some use as long as people understand how best to use them.

uploading (or displaying inline) pics Depends on forum type and content. Can be misused.

avatars Pointless, space wasting distractions.

Michael

I believe Global Warming is now known as Climate Change.

Steady light snow most of the day now stopped, but looks like could get more overnight.

Phil,

Wilkinson Cameras have a used SEF-36PZ for £120 at their Southport branch if you're interested.

I'd never heard of Wilkinson although they seem to be big in the north-west. Any one here had any experience of them?

Michael

On my 13th birthday in 1958 I got a Coronet Viscount which used 828 film.

Thanks for responses.

In the end I ended up using the Nissin as Google threw up a number of comments that the trigger voltage is around 10V which a number of commentators reckon is OK for Pentax.

Out of interest I contacted Nissin who didn't have the information as the current manufacturers bought the brand only and have no information on old models. However they did suggest that a rough guide would be to short the contacts with a bare wire and see if I got a tingle - which I didn't (I don't have access to a voltmeter).

Michael

Having become a grandfather on Christmas Eve it would seem that my K10D is likely to be called upon to work with flash. I'm too chicken to use my old Nissin 360 in case it fries the camera so am considering the purchase of something for this job. It's a very long time since I used flash to any extent and, apart from occasional use of the K10S's own flash, have never done any with a digital camera so I am getting confused in the process.

I don't want to spend too much as apart from this particular family application I'm unlikely to make much other use of flash. I also have to keep the expenditure at a level that will keep grandma happy, although as she was complaining about grain in a few pics I took this afternoon at ISO 1600 in a fairly dark room this might be an opportune moment.

Looking around the Pentax AF 200FG has been ruled out as it seems both expensive and basic but, more especially, it lacks the ability to bounce.

Going down in price the Metz Mecablitz 36 AF-4 seems to offer a lot more and appears to be well regarded by a number of people. Sigma's EF-530 DG ST could obviously give a lot more light. Whether I would need it or not is a different issue, although I suppose it could be useful in terms of depth of field. (Incidentally I use a 16-45 lens if that's material, although I would expect to be at the longer end for this type of shot).

There is quite a significant difference in price between these two. I would be interested to know what people feel about the use of these in the application I have mentioned, their relative strengths and weaknesses and whether the Sigma is worth 70% more thah the Mecablitz.

After these two prices seem to go up quite steeply, but the question should perhaps be asked whether the extra expenditure would be worth my while (I'm thinking especially of modeling lights).

I have found Matthew Miller's "Pentax P-TTL Hot Shoe Flash Comparison".

Thanks,

Michael

I used Silver Oxide batteries from Small Battery Company in my Spotmatics with no problems. The voltage is higher at 1.55 but the Spotmatics up to the IIs had a bridge circuit which means voltage variations do not matter. I don't think that applies to the ES. I'm not sure about the F.

The problem with the Wein cells is that they lose charge as soon as you install them.

Michael

It's not transport, it's use at altitude. Above 10,000 feet or so the air is too thin to provide the cushion mentioned and the heads are likely to crash and destroy the disk and data on it. This is an issue in places like Tibet and on the altiplano in South America where you may be well over 10,000 feet.

Michael

I use a Lowepro CompuTrekker AW for flights.