QUOTE(cate_chan @ Apr 19 2025, 20:06)

seems the camera is going through that acursed 'ebay international hub' I've heard so much horror stories about
hopefully it'll make it
against the odds it survived and showed up without issue, they even just left it at door as I always request instead of leaving it at shipping pickup point.
combined with one of my random latenight ebay purchases, an industar 50-2 m42 lens, its a pretty fun time figuring out functionality.
if i configure everything correctly theres still an automagic pentax shutterspeed button on the camera which does an okay job at overall brightness.
(have to work on my focus and overall settings but one day, also this is still straight to JPEG)