Nope not yet, although I have just picked up a S-M-C Takumar 28mm f/3.5

K.

I should have been on commission!

Enjoy the 77, that was the lens I would have gone for.

K.

That looks much better to my eyes. Let's see what the others think!

Best wishes, Kris.

I would hope we Pentaxians would be out and about taking excellent photos while the others argued about the relative merits of the Super Speedo Gadgi-Wotsit v. the Ultra Nifty Thingamagig (both available at $10,000 from all good branches of Jessops)...



K.

I badly worded my comment, sorry. I meant it was like The Onion, not that is The Onion. The Onion is available in good old paper format in NY.

K.

Just a bit too OTT although the castle is great. You could just tone down the blue saturation in PS or whatever? I might clone out the blown patch to the left too, and there is a big ?dust spot towards the top right.

There is lots of potential in this shot and worth getting spot on.

K.

"The Toad" appears to be an online version of "The Onion". The article is really quite a hoot, and as with all really good satire contains more than a grain of truth.

Good find Stefan!

K.

Put that down to being 16. Not cool to be excited about anything!

Hope she has a great time. I haven't been to Italy in years but loved it when I used to go regularly. I would love to go back on a touring / photography holiday. I'd have to take the Horseman though because I can remember always being disappointed with my slides because of the converging verticals in the architecture. That and a plus 10 ND filter so I can get rid of the people with very long exposures!

Best wishes, Kris.

I don't belong to the other Pentax forum (I have enough trouble keeping up with this one) so didn't get the email but my Lady Love and I own six Canon and two Nikon cameras between us (3 x Canon film SLRs, 1 x Canon DSLR, 2 x Canon Compacts, 1 x Nikon dSLR and 1 x Nikon SLR). My Canon SLRs (2x film, 1x digital) are used on site as sacrificial lambs so that my Pentax kit doesn't get ruined by excessive dust and muck. I also use two very tatty Program As for the same purpose. As to my Lady Love's taste in cameras, I have been trying to educate her!

The term Canikon does seem a bit derogatory to me and lumping the two together seems a recipe for flame wars which I hate. I shall stick to PUG and avoid all posts regarding Apple...

K.

The MX takes the common LR44 size 1.5v button batteries. They go by a wide variety of commercial names and it looks like the V357 is the Varta equivalent.

The seal under the rewind crank isn't the foam type that needs replacing. The foam ones are around the door edges, hinge and catch, and in the lightbox. These can be replaced easily by yourself using an Interslice replacement kit (see ebay or google). Interslice used to do big kits that would do a number of cameras but due to a shortage of the appropriate foam now only sells single one camera kits for specific cameras.

If you are using film with a wide exposure latitude like BW negative film, you probably do not need to have the light meter checked and/or calibrated. If you are taking slides, it is probably worth it as slide film is very unforgiving exposure-wise.

Cameras which I use quite a bit, like my LX or my MX I have had serviced by Robin at Harrow Technical. He will do the seals, check the lightmeter and generally give the camera a full CLA (clean, lube and adjustment). I have had him do five or six of my cameras so far and have been very pleased every time. Members of the PUG get a discount.

Best wishes, Kris.