Welcome Jason and have fun with your camera. As to which lens, just take lots of photos and you'll soon work out for yourself which you like for what. Galoot has his fisheye permanently stuck on his, I am a fan of my 12-24 and my 50-135 and hefty has his 43mm ltd. You'll soon work out which ones are most often on the camera and which ones stay in the bottom of your bag.

Cheers, Kris.

Ahhh the bargain LX.

You'll be perfectly happy with an ME Super. It was my first SLR and I now have four of them Be aware that it might need it's foam changing etc. Harrow Technical will do an excellent service for a quite reasonable price.

Cheers, Kris.

Those old 500s are monster lenses. SRS had one for sale just before Christmas when I was there.

Great shot but not as frightening as greyhoundman's helldog avatar...

They are lovely. If I had to have just one film body that would be it.

Some of the post-A series were a bit pug ugly!

Cheers, Kris.

It is just a calibration for the light meter. If you load ISO 100 film set the camera's ISO dial to 100 so that you get the correct light reading.

Cheers, Kris.

Pentax LX. Interchangeable viewfinders and focusing screens, power winder or motorwinder, off the film metering, mirror lock-up etc etc. One problem... still a bit pricey.

In second place, the MX. Manual only, small, built beautifully, range of interchangeable focus screens. Cheaper than the LX, still get reasonable price though.

3rd place: ME Super. 1000s out there as it was the camera to have in the early eighties and can be as cheap as chips to buy.

Honourable mentions: the Super or Program A. More expensive than the ME Super but more automation (still manual focus).

Film. For colour try Fuji Velvia. Note, however, that slide film is very intolerant of bad exposure so you'll have to get it spot on.

Things to remember... don't look at the back of the camera after every shot, there is no "auto white balance", wind on before the next photo.

I'm sure there'll be disagreement over this

Cheers, Kris.

Thanks John, a veritable mine of useful information as always. The SPII does sound a good choice.

Now to hunt the bargain pages, fleabay etc...

It is ironic that the fancier modern cameras get the more I enjoy playing with the basics. I've been eyeing up a Holga pinhole camera too And yet, I rarely leave the house without the K10 these days. Best of both worlds.

Many thanks, Kris.

You can get genuine ones (adaptors) on fleabay but I keep getting outbid at the last moment by 50p. I might have to admit defeat and just order one from SRS. I wonder if it has a 2 year warranty The 50mm is a nice lens, and those A/M series lenses look so tiny on the K10D

Hefty... was it the Sonnar you were after when you ended up with a trunk full of camera bits?

Thanks for the info on the mounts. The ES is a bit fiddly to use with non-SMC lenses. I think I might just have to get myself an older Spotmatic Oh, but which one to get : the SPII, SP-F, SP500, SP1000... so many choices!

My serviced ME-F should be back tomorrow from Harrow Technical so I'll have to give that a run through its paces.

Best wishes, Kris.

Glad to see another Hertfordshire native on the fora! Hope you're enjoying your K20D.

Could you fill in your location details when you get a moment? Just helps when answering some types of question.

Best wishes, Kris.