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Post by ChrisB on Apr 28, 2018 11:41:19 GMT
It's just beautiful Martin. What a fantastic piece of engineering. They were made from '73 to '76 and this one seems to be working like a dream. A couple more exposures and I shall take it's first roll of film down to the lab to be processed. Then we'll see for sure whether the seals and light meter are working correctly.
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Post by Slinger on Apr 28, 2018 12:22:10 GMT
You're getting like me with guitars, Chris.  Just don't spend so much time hunting them you never have time to actually use them.  |
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Post by julesd68 on Apr 28, 2018 12:44:23 GMT
Yep that Pentax is proper classy, look forward to seeing some results ...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2018 19:20:45 GMT
I would never get shut of my old Zenith 'TTL' i bought in the 80's..Far better picture quality than a Digital camera
My fav Lens if the Frog Eye.
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Post by ChrisB on May 17, 2018 17:56:26 GMT
Well, as of last night, the lens hunting is over. Including what we already had, there are over 30 here now! I bought a couple more of those beautiful Takumars - a 55mm f1.8, which arrived yesterday, and a 200mm f4 which I am expecting to arrive on Saturday. The latter is my biggest expenditure to date - a whacking £26! So now I have a good range of the lenses that were intended for my new Spotmatic (M42 mount only with that) and a massive selection of things use with both it and the other cameras. A rather nice surprise has been a Tamron Adaptall 80-250mm which has a proper macro capability (as opposed to just a small close focus range). I reckon it's potentially as good as Mischa's rather expensive (over 30x the cost) 105mm macro that I bought her a few years ago. Here's one I did earlier with it on the 20D. It's the flowers of a chive plant growing in our herb bed in the garden here. Diddy little things, perhaps a centimetre from top to bottom. Hand-held, no tripod or flash, no processing.  ...and one of those Dandelions.  |
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