> >How many bellows are there
>
> I think K, M and A, but maybe only two. Very very similar.  They look
> the same to me.  Except for the extra contacts (A-model).

So if he has the right one it should work, sides it'll work on my other
camera and I never seen anybody use AF on a macro shot anyway


> >He has these 2 finders - "2x FA-1 Eye-Level Finders(Standard), 1x FA-2
> >Eye-Level Finder"
>
> I would be interested in the FA-2 unless you would like to keep this
> low-profile "no-hot-shoe" finder.  And I have a bumped FA-1 and
> should probably look for a replacement one unless I learn the casing
> alone can be bought new at Pentax.

Well if the sale goes through you have first dibs on it, its an online
auction
>
> >He lives about 450km's from me so he'll have to post it. To have a
> >CLA done for me is simple,
>
> If it is a simple story, great.  It is really better if the repairman
> has some experience with the LX (some pieces besides the mirror box
> have to be replaced, so the camera has to be dismantled and it is a
> difficult camera to... "remantle"...  Many things packed in a small
> body.)  Where do you live?

Well I don't know the repairman, it goes directly to the South African
Pentax
Distributors, which is where I live, Johannesburg, South Africa. If you live
in
Manitoba, Canada sending it through wont be a problem, friends travel back
and forth every 3 months

>
> Actually you may have an LX for about the price of a K1000 SE (at
> least here, where the K1000 are sold like hot buns (oh no, what have
> I said...), I mean hot b*ns.

Cant sell that K1000, sentimental value, just sold my Z70 & 2 lenses and
already
I'm missing them :) I need a manual backup which is the better camera?

feroze
>
> Andre
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