Excellent photo, well done. K.

Thanks for letting me know, but sadly 'not this month'. Just spent a fair bit on one or two other things and I have a flight to NY to pay for The Jupiter-9 will do for now.

Thanks anyway, K.

I'll be wotsited if I pay more for a book about the screw mount series than I'd pay for a 85mm/f1.8(9)

K

Now completely OT but have you seen the prices Gerjan van Oosten's The Ultimate Asahi Pentax Screw Mount Guide 1952 - 1977 goes for second hand?

I don't have "Cecchi" but the AOHC website that I checked doesn't list one.

Curious...

Either a 55/1.8 or a 50/1.4. No 50/1.8 produced in screw mount as far as I am aware, and the k-mount went to 50/1.7 (that 0.1 of an f-stop makes all the difference )

K.

As I once had someone clone my card and spend £13,000 out of my account (and no, I don't normally have that amount of cash and that is another story), I should be grateful that there are security checks. The problem I have is that there appears to be no mechanism by which you can set things up in advance.

Me: "I am going to the US for a few weeks, is it possible to have this put on my account so you don't block my card?"

Teller: "No"

Me: "So what should I do?"

Teller: "Ring up the number on the back of the card when it gets blocked"

Me: "Very embarrassing when I am in a shop or restaurant! The call is expensive too!"

Teller: ~shrugs~

Me: "Can I claim back the cost of the call?"

Teller: "No." (Looks at me as if I am mad.)

Surely, the best security would be if the card holder could inform the bank where they will be and when? As a result, I take a big wadge of cash...

K.

My entry in the stairs comp was a hand held HDR. I agree, however, that if you have the option you are better off using a tripod.

Best wishes, K.

I agree, nowhere near as interesting and too obsessed with gear.

I have only recently started buying AP again. When I started taking photos in the early 1980s AP was little more than a soft porn mag. In the few months I have been getting it there have been some excellent articles (some of the photoshop ones have been very useful and the "icons" articles on historic kit have been interesting) but some of the other things they have published have been utter tosh. One or two letters have been so incorrect I have spluttered into my tea but there they are with no editorial comment as to why they are nonsense.

I feel the "have you used a K-mount camera?" poll to be bizarre. What the hell use is that piece of information? It makes no distinction between someone who borrowed his/her mate's ME Super in 1985 for a weeks holiday and a nerd like myself with 20+ k-mount cameras kicking around his flat. Completely pointless.

Oh well. K.