Well my trusty Bandit 1200 will do the carrying. It is the tilt and shift facility that was my rationale for going down this route. I hate converging verticals!

Fun will certainly be had.

Best wishes, Kris.

Gimmick? Hardly. It is a serious piece of kit!

The bigger Jessops still carry it, and a company called Silverprint specialise in film, developers and traditional paper. The stuff is still around and not too difficult to source, especially online.

Best wishes, Kris.

It is also available from SRS for £199 but you'll have the peace of mind of a two year warranty. Just noted we don't know where you are!

Best wishes, Kris.

Just been looking at the FA*200 f/4. Strikes me as odd that someone would buy that lens at £1,800+ rather than the DA* 200 f/2.8 for £650. I guess the FA can be used with film cameras too, but is there any other reason to spend £1,200 more?

It has gone from ebay... what was the lens in the OP?

Thanks, Kris.

I thought some of you might be interested in my latest toy. As it isn't Pentax I have posted it here rather than in the kit section... I hope you will all forgive me but Pentax doesn't make this sort of thing. I haven't had a chance to use it in anger yet, but the plan is to use it to photograph church architecture in which I have an interest. For those of you who care about that sort of thing it is manual focus, no built in exposure meter and takes about 2 fph (frames per hour...)




It is a Horseman LE.

Best wishes, Kris.

I found 35mm on my film bodies was not usually wide enough for what I wanted and needed and so went with the 28mm most of the time. I probably took more photos with my SMC-M 28mm f2.8 than any other lens until I "went digital" (which isn't a fair comparison as I'll shoot off many more digital frames in a day than I ever did with film).

Best wishes, Kris.

I'm afraid I don't know Tirgu Mures, although I have been to Romania many times, mainly Bucharest, Iasi, sometimes Cluj and Alba Iulia. I spend most of my summers in a little town called Isaccea in Tulcea county.

Welcome to the fora, and well done with the competition.

Cheers, Kris.

It would be a lovely photo if you could fix the converging verticals in PS or whatever.

The bungalow like thing on the banks to the right is the boathouse I used to row out of once upon a time. Always a bit nerve racking spinning a four just in front of that weir!

Best wishes, Kris.