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Comment by Algernon posted on Did focus screens change ? at 28/01/2011 - 10:14
The shot of the motorbike is taken with the famous SMC-A* 85mm/1.4 wide open one of the best lenses ever made and would look good on an Instamatic It would look the same on a crop sensor, but would be 2/3 of the size.
Comment by Algernon posted on Pentax glass on a FF camera at 28/01/2011 - 10:10
Well you could probably get a nice ME F to go in said box, the AF zoom might be trickier!
Really must get hold of a tidy but dead ME F to do some parts transplanting with my slightly scruffy working example.
I'd forgotten how good the Green in focus light was on the MEF, it's really very sensitive much better than the split screen which show it being in focus before the green light comes on.
I can't ever see me selling the lens or camera for that matter. The lens is very sharp even wide open and works well with the 1.7AF adapter. Nice to know that I've still got the complete kit.
Comment by Algernon posted on Rare Takumar Box Sold on Ebay at 27/01/2011 - 19:42
Maybe he bought it to get all his dress in
Comment by Algernon posted on Rare Takumar Box Sold on Ebay at 27/01/2011 - 19:30
I did put a snipe on that for £36 but it was already well above that and never went on.
I've still got the mint original boxes off my MEF and 35-70mm f/2.8 AF Zoom maybe I'd better hang onto them
Comment by Algernon posted on Rare Takumar Box Sold on Ebay at 27/01/2011 - 18:52
Russell Howard did a really good sketch in the episode on Dave last week.
He said come on people get real.... just because I like to go to the Zoo and take pictures of a Rhinoceros doesn't mean I want to xxxx a Rhino
The he did a sketch of a doctor in a hospital holding some sort of scanner type probe on a lead on a pregnant womans tummy so the baby could be seen on the monitor screen..... her husband shouted out... Here what you doing?.... he's looking at out baby's willy.... Bloody Pervert
Comment by Algernon posted on Photographers stop and search to be cut, says Home Secretary at 27/01/2011 - 18:39
Comment by Algernon posted on Rare Takumar Box Sold on Ebay at 27/01/2011 - 18:17
probably cheaper than in the UK. I paid about £120 for a
Spotmatic and f/1.8 in about 1969. With the f/1.4 it would
have been about £160 (Jessops)
Comment by Algernon posted on Provenance... Things that somehow survive (What you can find when having a clear out!) at 27/01/2011 - 09:09
Sigma stand at the Focus on Imaging show
Comment by Algernon posted on smc F* 250-600mm at 27/01/2011 - 08:59

