More from the spottie but in colour!

Ran another film through the Spotmatic F, the meter seems a little erratic now and again, most notable with the SMC open aperture lenses at f16 and 22.

Anyway these came out pretty well IMHO, Comment and crit is always welcome I've a lot to learn with this film lark (like how to hold a camera straight)!!

The wolves again but a slight different angle, probably 50mm f1.4 at a guess



Fountain with a fast shutter, colour came out well IMHO.



Bronze statue of Alan Turin (I know these are a bit similar to my previous pics but its just what is on site)



Tasty e-Type parked up in town, need to learn how to gauge the light meter for this link of thing. going out to play with the ESII next.



All taken on my Spot F with Kodak ultramax 400, probably 50mm f1.4 and the jag 35mm f3.5.

Alan Turing

When I said I welcome crit, I am more looking towards the photographs than spelling!

But thanks for the correction anyway

The last 3 don't do too much for me I'm afraid. 2 and 3 have nice sharp subjects, but slightly boring too-central composition and uninspiring backgrounds. In 4 I like the car, great reflections there, but its all a bit dark compared to the over-bright background. And as you pointed out they all tilt a bit

On the other hand I rather like the first one. Interesting slightly evil-looking statues. Nice sharp head and good DOF. Decent bokeh especially in the greens, not so much on the twiggy muddy ground. Composition seems good, even the tilt isn't too distracting If it was mine I would be tempted to clone out the 3 blue-ish bokeh discs in the top left, plus a bit of spotting on the scans - there are a few white dots here and there, plus a few scratches in the negs.

Thanks for the crit, they are all a little bit 'thoughtless snaps' I was basically running a colour film to check the camera was all ok. They are straight scans and I agree a bit of PP would help them a bit (straightening and cleaning the negs would be a good start).

No probs. You can return the favour one day soon

After seeing the bokeh in the mud in image 1 I was going to ask what lens this was but forgot to. Then I re-read your first post - a 50 f1.4? Didn't you just buy a broken one of those from me?

Yeah... I'll have 4 of them when they all arrive, lovely lense IMHO, the first manual focus I bought for my canon 20D. I bought one from my local LCE same as yours super takumar, then bought a spotmatic F to play with it on the 'proper' camera it was intended for, realised what a bonus open aperture metering was so bought another with a spotmatic ESII attached, needed some parts to fix the ESII so bought a 'spares/repair' Spotty F which happened to have another SMC version in it. then yours popped up for sale while I was fixing sticky blades on a 35mm f3.5 super tak so I though, why not buy and fix another one I'll keep 2 and sell 2 to fund my need for a SMC takumar 28mm f3.5

I think I may have a spare working spot F so one will go for sale with that.

I have squirrel/magpie tendancies

Heh sounds like quite a plan! If I had any confidence in my repair skills I'd try myself. I hope you have a spare set of blades for the one I'm sending you, cause the ones that are in there are a a bit of a mess!

Nope, no spare blades, I'll see if those are repairable or try and find a cheaper donor lens for some. If not I may try and do something creative with it like a tilt shift conversion.