Thanks from me too. Setting up the website is going to be on the back burner for a while though.

"Still life" is not really my thing so it'll be a challenge to come up with something.

Best wishes, Kris.

I was going to recomend Pan-F but hefty beat me to it. Delta 100 or Tri-X 100 are also nice films.

Best wishes, Kris.

Given that this forum must have a good selection of Pentax-users suffering from chronic LBA and no-one has admitted to buying anything from there one wonders how they stay in business? Like some others, the shop is a short hop, skip and a jump from my office and if they were more SRS-like I'd be in bankruptcy by now.

Cheers, Kris.

Landscapes: almost anything really but if forced to pick one the SMC Takumar 28mm f/3.5.

Portraits: Jupiter-9 85mm or SMC 50mm f/1.2.

K.

Have you tried using the camera on Av mode and stopping the aperture down with the manual/auto switch on the lens? I find that works best on my K20D.

A couple of people have said the metering under exposes with older glass (especially when stopped down). Mine all over expose:

K.

I use lenses between 12mm and 200mm for landscapes. I don't believe there is any such thing as a single "landscape" lens. I'd recommend getting an old 50mm as they are sharp, small, light and cheap. They can also be useful for portraits and many other applications. I think I have about a dozen of them now in various versions most of which came attached to a camera.

K.

I have used manual cameras (or cameras in manual mode) for years. If they had been as far off with the metering as my K20D is with older glass I would have been quite upset. Slides come in at about 25p a picture... I used my ME Super (in manual) with Kodachrome 64 until I literally wore the camera out. I hoped that fitting the katzeye screen might improve matters but it didn't, and I also find that every manual lens behaves slightly differently. The Vivitar 28mm close focus (Komine) lens is, for example, badly out at all apertures.

Best wishes, Kris.

I must admit I cheated and almost fell off my chair when I saw that No. 3 had been rejected and No. 1 accepted. I haven't bothered entering anything since my last round of attempts although the thorn which was accepted by the PUG Magazine was also accepted into the PPG.

K.

My mother was late for her own funeral which we all thought was very fitting.

K.

I know the shop and that is exactly what they do. They claim that they will undercut anyone's price so they expect you to go in and say "Blogg's cameras have the lens for X" and they will undercut it.

Personally I find the whole shop so weird and odd that I won't buy anything from there. As others have said, get on the train to Watford and go to SRS.

Cheers, Kris.