I searched long and hard for one of these, and was very pleased with the one I got. Then Jonathan kindly sold me his lens which was in much better cosmetic condition thus satisfying both my need for a shift lens and my "K series collection-itis". Having two shift lenses is a bit OTT even for me so I am selling my original one. There are some minor dings and scrapes in the paintwork, and one mark on the front element (visible on the fourth photograph). It is, however, optically very good, and I have never seen the mark in a picture. The last three sold lenses on ebay went for in excess of £400, so in view of the mark I am asking £300 plus £8.95 postage (UK, at cost to other locations). Bank transfer preferred.

Some images.



shift-2 par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity



shift-1 par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity



shift-3 par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity



shift-4 par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity



shift-5 par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity



shift-6 par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity



Caen: Abbaye aux Dames par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity



Caen: Abbaye aux Homme par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity

This was taken one very foggy morning in Edinburgh in April. Pentax LX, Kodak Tri-X, SMC Pentax 28mm f/3.5 lens.



Man, birds, fog, litter par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity

That dreaded word 'yet'. I've picked all the low hanging fruit K-series prime-wise, and a few of the less low-hanging ones. Filling the gaps is, by necessity, a slow process as the lenses are rarer and rather more pricey.

There are two lenses on the that list of Ks I don't have yet...

When you need one. You could play "waiting for the next best model" endlessly otherwise.

This is a bit of a zombie thread... it keeps coming back!

Personally I have largely given-up buying things on ebay. I used to, but now I buy second-hand stuff from people on here most of the time. I do occasionally trawl ebay for exotics like the A*1200 but they are nearly always in Korea / Japan and going for silly money plus postage plus import tax plus VAT. It is more a form of procrastination these days...

They have been a pricey item for some time. Sadly the Chinese rip-offs tend to flake chrome so I won't use them. I have one non-Pentax one which came with a lens but it gets stuck on the camera so I've stopped using that one too.

Bird to left, dirty sensor to right and heat haze all over!

On Sunday I took the following image using my DA* 60-250mm lens at 250mm.



abbey 1 par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity

If one pixel peeps this is the sort of thing one sees...



abbey 2 par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity

The wibbly-wobbly flag poles etc. aren't my inability to hold a long lens steady, it doesn't look right for that. My guess is heat haze... It was pretty warm on Sunday afternoon!

Cheers, Kris.

I've subscribed to OP for many years. Lovely photo, well done. I note that three of the photos in that section were shot on Pentax cameras.

K.