Sale pending to Vic on the flashgun

Hi Vic,

I got both your PMs. If you still can't find mine, please PM me a message with your email address, and I'll email you instead

Simon.

Hi Vic,

I'll send you a PM to get the ball rolling

Simon.

Sale pending on Samsung lens

Hey thanks for the endorsement Kim!

I hope this is not considered inappropriate for this forum. I would like to sell the following items:

K10D body only with Katz Eye screen fitted (optibrite and rule of thirds) boxed as new with original accessories, 2x third party batteries, 1x2Gb Sandisk Extreme SD card £400 [SOLD]

Pentax SMC-A 50mm f/1.2 (yes f/1.2, not f/2.0) in as new condition, boxed £280 [SOLD]
Pentax SMC-A 35mm f/2.0 in excellent condition £140
Pentax SMC-A 24mm f/2.8 in excellent condition with leather case £120
Pentax AF540FGZ flashgun in as new condition, boxed £200 [SOLD]
Pentax 18-55 kit lens £20 [SOLD]
Samsung 50-200 lens £50 [SOLD]

Note that the SMC-A lenses are manual focus, and that the K10D can control their aperture, so all exposure modes work on the K10D.

Royal Mail are currently on strike, which makes this somewhat difficult. I'm hoping I might get some interest from someone who would like to meet over a lunchbreak in London and buy one or more of these items face to face. I would definitely give preference to someone who wanted to buy in this manner. I also reserve the right to choose who I sell to.

Failing that, shipping and Paypal are extra. I've sold on eBay and www.rangefinderforum.com under the handle "wintoid". Please PM me or reply to this thread.

LOL I see where you're coming from

Maybe I'm overly gung ho, but when shooting BW negatives I tend to take the view that a stop here or there doesn't really matter. Sunny16 is fine most of the time too. If you're shooting slide, it's a different matter of course.

Hi Kim,

Not at all, I don't feel picked at You're right in that I don't have extensive experience of wide aperture AF lenses on the K10D. I do know that my 18-55 focuses faster than the 43L did. I don't have accuracy issues with the 18-55, but then it's a far smaller max aperture.

The crucial issue for me is that with a 40 pancake, AF would be useable because I could "touch up" the focus manually due to the quick shift. That's why I am interested in it.

Just to sound a different note, I had the 43L and found that autofocus on my K10D was dismal at wide apertures with this lens. I came to the K10D from a Canon DSLR, attracted by the better Pentax colours, but have found AF a constant problem with wide aperture lenses, both in terms of speed and accuracy.

I've ditched the 43L now and have gone manual focus only at wide apertures using a Katz Eye screen (my nearest equivalent is the 35mm SMC-A f/2.0). At some point, I will revisit the autofocus thing, and the 40 pancake is at the front of the queue. Even if AF is dismal on that too, at least with the quick shift you can sort it out quickly. Of course, f/2.8 isn't really particularly wide.

In terms of optical quality, the 43L was fine.