For a wider choice of films try Silverprint. For not-cheap but excellent dev, print and scan try "The Darkroom UK". For cheaper dev only try Peter Elgar from here. For wonderful colour print film try Kodak Ektar 100 (but not as your test roll!). For BW... well there are still quite a few to choose from. Ilford Delta 100 is wonderfully fine grained stuff. Kodak BW400CN is available from Boots on the 3 for 2 offer, has a wide exposure latitude and can be developed by high street labs as it is a C41 process film.

HTH and enjoy using the ME Super, a lovely camera.

K.

Your welcome!

BTW, I have all the finders too apart from the simple FD-2 which I am trying to get at a sane price. I was really pleased to pick up a FA-2 finder for a sane-ish price given that it seems to be the rarest of the finders.

I ought to make an insert for my Pentax aluminium case for the LX and its bits and pieces.

K.

Presumably to get AF with M42 lenses... There are some stunning M42 lenses around that produce lovely results on dSLRs, just look at the Takumar club on Pentaxforums for examples. Personally, I am happy to just use them in MF but I could see some advantages to trying this route.

K.

Just one addition to that advice. Assuming your camera works the same way as my K20D, the shutter won't fire if you have the camera body on AF and the image is out of focus. Make sure you have set the camera to MF and it should fire no matter how out of focus it thinks you are.

K.

Some class glass there. Not silly prices but out of my league.

In all the comments about Pentax needing longer/faster glass, one often looses sight of the cost of these things.

K.

Another ES question I'm afraid...

My ES had a special case because of the unusual battery housing on the side of the camera.

Does anyone know if there was a special ESII case? The batteries were changed to 4 x LR44s underneath the lens housing and the bulge where the battery is on the ES was replaced with a self-timer.

I was surprised it took four LR44s as all the following M series only took two until the ME-F with it's focus confirmation system.

Thanks, Kris.

I have put an absolutely fresh set of batteries in and it now seems to be working fine. According to the manual the batteries should last about a year and so if there is an unusual battery drain it should show up fairly soon. Fingers crossed!

I'm looking forward to giving the ESII a try out. It has a very swish "viewfinder blind" feature so that you can use it on a tripod etc. without light from behind upsetting the automatic exposure.

Best wishes, Kris.

53mm wide x 51mm x 35mm deep.

K.

If the lens is set to its minimum aperture and you cannot see the aperture closing when you push in the small pin on the mount, it is broken. I don't know how easy it would be to take apart and repair.

K.

I tried two different SMC Tak lenses both of which work fine on my ES so I don't think it is that. Thanks for the suggestion though.

K.