I bought my first second hand in the summer of 1993. I was smitten. Sadly, it was stolen along with various other items (my 135mm, my 28mm, my wife's Olympus...) on the Paris metro. I replaced it about four years ago with an ebay purchase but sadly it hasn't seen as much use as my LX which I got at the same time.

I've been using my newly serviced ME-F over the last couple of days which is basically an ME Super with the focusing stuff added. (The MX and one of the ME Supers are going for a bit of TLC in a couple of weeks.) I don't really use the focus thingy but using an ME Super equivalent is so second nature to me I am rather enjoying it. In fact, this week I have left the K10D at home and just been carrying the ME-F around with an A series 50mm f/1.4 lens on it.

Due to John's recommendation I will soon be in possession of a SPII. I hope it is in as good a condition as the advert suggested! It is coming with a SMC Takumar 55mm f/1.8 and a Cimko MT series 28-80mm zoom. I know nothing about the latter and unless it proves interesting will probably donate it to the local charity shop.

Cheers, Kris.

Or the Pentax 12-24mm.....

Pleased with the result of the 135mm auction, Peter? Of the (now) five sales I have in my database, it is the highest priced one. I would love to have one of those, but a bit too much for me at the moment.

Hope the rest goes as well!

Best wishes, Kris.

Nice shots and no. 1 is my favourite. I thought the fisheye was super-glued onto your K10D?

Best wishes, Kris.

Very nicely done. I am surprised that there was a 14 stop range in this photo though! Photomatix didn't complain about lining up the hand held shots? I have always used a tripod for HDR photographs.

Best wishes, Kris.

The irony of all this is that it is done "in order to protect our freedom". Yeah, right...

I could do with a new tripod...

Not sure what I would be photographing from the comfort of my bed, and perhaps we just shouldn't go there

Isn't there enough doom and gloom in the world without trying to talk our favourite camera manufacturer out of business?

As our elders and betters --- probably neither in fact but lets ignore that --- seem to think running up yet more debt is the way out of recession, we should all go and buy a nice set of Ltd lenses

Go and take photographs, that is what these toys are for, after all.

Kris.

At last, not snowing here. Just pi$$ing down with rain instead.

Lovely.