The A series 50mm f/1.7 shouldn't cost you more than about £60 or so, I don't know where you get a price of £400.

For the flashes I find the pop-up flash is hopeless as a master as more often than not the 'pre-flash' triggers the slaves. There are various infrared and radio triggers which work much better and are not too expensive. Alternatively, buy a cheap, dumb, very low power flash such as the AF160 and use that as a trigger.

HTH. K.

This page has some useful info about the Vivitar... link

K.

I love this shot. Made me smile! K.

Those are the bellows I have! I had no idea they were rare and I had never noticed the markings down the sides. I have used them on my K10/20 many times. I just screw the adaptor onto the bellows first then mount them onto the camera.

I may well bid on one or two of your lenses but as your descriptions and timing are well honed I probably won't win!

Good luck with the sale. K.

I don't know that lens. What is special about it?

Best wishes, K.xxx

Grain and noise is not the same thing though, is it? For some photographs, grain can add to the feeling of the shot, whereas digital noise usually just looks ugly. We have, for example, software that adds film-like grain to digital photos, but other software to remove noise. Silver Efex Pro (if I got the name right) comes with built in functions to make the image look like something shot on Tri-X at 1600, or whatever.

Completely off topic, but does anyone use Silver Efex?

K.

BTW Coincidentally I had a box of Kodachrome slides delivered today which were from the same shoot. Some of those were OK too. I'll try and get some scans. K.

On the way home I realised that my comment about the image being rejected might be mis-interpreted as big-headedness (if such a word exists). Here is the unprocessed image (just resized and converted from RAW to jpeg in Lightroom). As you can see it wasn't an inspiring image on first glance!

Best wishes, Kris.

The crinkly background is the right one (I got the orginal cap with my 135mm). The push on rear caps are the cheap ones usually shipped with kits lenses etc. When the A series lenses came out the rear caps started sporting a flange to cover the contacts. There is a post about that somewhere if you can find it!

K.

Mmmmm interesting..I have been thinking about fitting out the tank bag on my motorcycle and those inserts look the business...