[tim60]

You make an excellent point. My old Dodge Ram dually truck was full to overflowing, so it must have been cubic yards. I beg you to understand that this was simply a slip of the tongue, so to say, and not a glaring knowledge gap. :>)

Curiously, in Australia the quantity it seems you obtained would have been called "3 yards", although with metric the nearest equivalent would be "3 metres".

[Marcus Rowland]

Another OK day in the car boot mines, nothing remarkable but OK stuff which will make a reasonable profit

Canon Eos 500 body with their odd 38-76mm lens for £8.00 - might have slight fungus in the lens which wasn't visible until I took a look with a UV light, I'll know more once I've cleaned it properly.
An Auto Miranda EC 1.8 50mm with their breech mount for £7.00 - nice and clean and appears to work well
Mirage 3.5 / 200 M42 screw for £7.50 - clean and working well
A set of six 55m effects filters and a baseplate for a Nikon MB3 with two battery holders for £3
An APS x2 / x3 converter for M42 for £3
and a film shield lead-lined bag for £1

Also a firewire 400 hub and a couple of cables for £2.50

later - looking through my junk box I just found a set of M44 extension tubes with a Miranda lens adapter on the end, which I'll throw in with the lens. May make it more desirable, I hope.

[ChrisPlatt]

Domke F-3X in olive green (khaki):




Another Amazon Warehouse bargain find.
I currently have at least two of these...

Chris

[pepperberry farm]

Domke F-3X in olive green (khaki):




Another Amazon Warehouse bargain find.
I currently have at least two of these...

Chris

I have a black F-3X that I carry daily and it's just awesome...

[monochrome]

B50 Adapter for Carl Zeiss Ultron 1,8 50mm m42 mount. That is the lens with the concave front element. It doesn’t have filter threads. It has a bayonet mount for the lens cap and hood (super expensive). With this adapter I can mount threaded filters or an aftermarket hood.

[IgorZ]

B50 Adapter for Carl Zeiss Ultron 1,8 50mm m42 mount. That is the lens with the concave front element. It doesn’t have filter threads. It has a bayonet mount for the lens cap and hood (super expensive). With this adapter I can mount threaded filters or an aftermarket hood.

It produces some beautiful bokeh if you ask me...

[monochrome]

It produces some beautiful bokeh if you ask me...

Yes, it is a special lens. I got it in deplorable condition and had it completely disassembled, cleaned and lubed, and reassembled. I left the exterior finish untouched. I had no idea the value of this lens. The prices seen on eBay while looking for the hood are shocking.

[IgorZ]

Yes, it is a special lens. I got it in deplorable condition and had it completely disassembled, cleaned and lubed, and reassembled. I left the exterior finish untouched. I had no idea the value of this lens. The prices seen on eBay while looking for the hood are shocking.

I got one in an excellent condition and for cheap. But it's in Icarex mount, so I can't adapt it to PK...

[Canada_Rockies]

Curiously, in Australia the quantity it seems you obtained would have been called "3 yards", although with metric the nearest equivalent would be "3 metres".

We say the same here. A yard from a gravel site is a cubic yard.

[richard0170]

Arrived Saturday Meike 50mm f1.7 for my Fuji XE2s, and today Vivitar Series 1 28mm f1.9, for my K3, and possibly KX film camera - though not a huge fan of 28mm on 35mm. The Meike was reduced due to a blemish on the barrel to a very reasonable £80, and the Vivitar was £110. Not bad for a lens that was supposed to sell for the equivalent of $1000 in today's money.

[D1N0]

There is a Pentax-m 35mm F2.8 coming my way

[Gary H Perth]

This probably sounds very mundane, but I was driving past a Cash Converters shop today. They had no Pentax gear except a very early digital *ist-D with a first-gen 18-55 zoom. Taking up space at the front of the cabinet were three never-used items - a Kenko digital Cir PL 52mm, an unbranded 58mm Variable ND, and a Marumi 52-58mm step-up ring - all priced at $2 each and with retailer stamps dated Nov 2018. The Cir-PL would be great with my K55mm, K24mm, M200mm and M80-200mm, so that's good. The variable ND is one I have never experimented with, so here goes! The stepping ring will help spread the load for my Grad-ND 58mm. So all items useful, unblemished and working perfectly, for a total of $6!

[edom31]

There is a Pentax-m 35mm F2.8 coming my way

Sweet performer... suffers a bit from sticky apertures...


Mine did and I was unable to open it from the back to access the aperture mechanism to clean it. I ended up having to cut off the lever, making it fully manual (no wide open focus). It is still a charm.

[D1N0]

Here it is:


Aperture is indeed a bit slow.

[brettday]

Just got my hands on this bad boy yesterday. I got to use it for a short while in-between storms that were rolling through Oklahoma. Sharp as a knife, even at 450mm. Colors right out of camera are fantastic too. I took this shot for a blog post of mine over at thepentaxpioneer.com. The lens can certainly be used handheld and I nailed some good shots with it that way, but it really sings when it is placed on a tripod. I used it with my Fotopro Eagle Series EGL-65 and gimbal head. I cannot wait to get out and use it some more.