Job Lot!

by pauljay

My latest addition to the collection! I bought this bunch, 2 x ME Super, 1 x ME and 1 x MX, knowing that none of them worked and that I might be able to get one camera out of them. However, externally they all look so good that I just don't have the heart to start pulling them apart. One of the ME Supers has clearly been dropped so I think I'll disassemble that one just to learn my way around the M series. Learned today that a friend of mine is sending me an MX which I know will be in perfect condition!
The only way for me to get into the shadowy crevices in this shot was to fuse five exposures. I think it worked quite well.
K-5/Tamron 28-300mm

Paul.
Uploaded13/06/2016 - 22:33
CategoryStill Life
Shutter Speed1/10
Aperturef/11
LensN/A
ISO200
Focal Length39mm
Views/Likes73/0

Mag07
Posted 14/06/2016 - 00:46 Link
Wow, quite a collection and I do like the end result of blended exposures I have one non-working ME Super. Now that you mentioned disassembly....
'Photography...it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten....' (Aaron Siskind)
davidwozhere
Posted 14/06/2016 - 01:12 Link
I can see a collection of camera corpses on the horizon here !
The final image, using all those different exposures is nigh on perfect. Did you try a B&W version?
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Mag07
Posted 14/06/2016 - 01:18 Link
Oh, don't forget a crisp HDR of the 'corpses', as David nicely put it....
'Photography...it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten....' (Aaron Siskind)
GIULIO57
Posted 14/06/2016 - 07:05 Link
A wonderful "Band of Brothers"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PPG
pauljay
Posted 14/06/2016 - 07:28 Link
Thank you Mag, David and Giulio! David, I just tried a mono conversion but then the red dots don't show up! Amazing just how significant they become when they can't be seen!
Paul.

Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried! (Bill Brandt)
PPG
nocturnal
Posted 15/06/2016 - 08:29 Link
I have the ME Super and MX.

MX has mirror lock up and depth of field preview making it substantially better than the ME Super if you are a landscape photographer.

Problem is my ME Super is in superb clean condition recently back from full CLA. The MX needs a full CLA and has dirt in the viewfinder.

I prefer the slightly smaller size of the ME Super and the shutter speed buttons are a godsend compared to the ergonomically poor shutter select wheel on the MX.

If only the ME Super had DOF preview and Mirror Lock Up
"In a photographic context I don't like the use of the word 'shot' as where I live this word refers to an extreme act of violence and not the beautiful craft of photography"
nocturnal
Posted 15/06/2016 - 08:34 Link
pauljay wrote:
Thank you Mag, David and Giulio! David, I just tried a mono conversion but then the red dots don't show up! Amazing just how significant they become when they can't be seen!

Paul,

Switch the filter in Lightroom or in your software to 'Green', this should darken the dots in contrast to the silver mount plate.

Green is the direct complement of 'Red'. A Green 58 filter would completely blacken the red dots if there was any software out there with such a complementary range. Maybe Photoshop has it but Lightroom has only basic filters.
"In a photographic context I don't like the use of the word 'shot' as where I live this word refers to an extreme act of violence and not the beautiful craft of photography"
pauljay
Posted 15/06/2016 - 09:30 Link
Simon, I do actually have a working ME Super in beautiful condition which I brought back to life last year. A joy to use! I wasn't over impressed with the mono version of this photo so the red dots are not that important. I could have color-popped it!
Paul.

Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried! (Bill Brandt)
PPG
Posted 27/08/2016 - 12:48 Link
Pity they dropped the Asahi (? - as I remember it) in the name.

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