Swap you a lightly used Tamron 7-300mm...

Read "View camera" magazine. Not a Canon in sight, but a few Nikon lenses. Sadly, Pentax never made lenses for them.

Best wishes, Kris.

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Not quite a 30 year user yet and my original ME Super died Bird photography is not my strong point....

Best wishes, Kris.

Hi, and welcome to the fora.

I have a SPII in the post. Hoping it is a good example --- ebay is always a bit of gamble.

Which film do you prefer? Do you do your own D&P?

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Despite my good intentions to replace the kit lens with a DA* 16-50 or the DA 16-45 I found my Mk I kit lens good enough that so far I have decided to invest in glass that did something different, e.g. the 12-24mm zoom.

The ability to use all Pentax K-mount lenses back to the originals and the preceding M42 Takumar lenses with shake reduction is a huge plus with my K10D. Admittedly, however, pre-A series lenses are little more fiddly to use, but only a little

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I've been after one of those to go with my MX but have never won an auction yet. I guess I don't want it "enough"

Have fun with it. K.

Cropped to portrait, or even maybe a square print, and you have a lovely photo there. The reflection makes for a lovely shot.

Best wishes, Kris.

Do you mean an ME, or an ME Super? I used an ME Super for many years and found for transparencies the ME Super's light meter under-exposed if you included sky in the frame. As a result I used the camera on manual and just tipped it down far enough to exclude the sky and used the resultant reading. If there was the possibility to meter off an area of grass that usually worked. If the sky was especially bright and the ground especially dark I would compromise, usually one stop darker than the reading from the ground. The vast majority of the time I got very good exposures that way. For slides, I found that Av mode was not accurate enough and the exposure compensation dial more fiddly than using manual.

Although it has its quirks, the ME Super light meter worked very well with a little practice.

Hope this helps. Kris.

The 12-24 or 10-20 would be my choice, and maybe an old manual 50mm if you have the room (light and cheap but good for a faster aperture).

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The only one of those I have seen for sale went for £141. The A series lenses do fetch much more than the M series, possibly because of the metering issue with digital bodies as well as ease of use, I guess. If the metering worked properly I'd be happy to use the M lenses more, as it is I mainly use them on my various film cameras.

I was amazed that Hefty's M-series 200mm f/4 went for £80 -- much more than usual.

Best wishes, Kris.