I experience vitreous detachment last summer in my right eye, it was quite disconcerting to has a sudden change in my eyes. I kept quiet about the problem in my right eye for around 24hrs, eventually I told my wife who is a retired staff nurse and she explained the possible consequences and took me to A&E immediately.

The doctor explained I should have come in straight away.

This has also now happened in my left eye as well now, but thankfully my retinas have not detached and you lean to cope with floaters, which can be very frustrating.

Just picked up a second hand SMC 21mm f3.2 Limited, not really had chance to try it out but it does produce some very sharp images.

Just used this post to adjust the back fousing issue on a K-m I had given to me. Very handy information

Merry Christmas everyone, looking forward to getting out and about with this little gem i got this morning

Pentax cameras often get bad press for poor autofocus performance and not being able to do action shots.

I've been out at a car rally today and taken around 900 images and to be honest only 5 to 10 have focus issues.

I had the camera set to AF C and expanded AF points.

The hundred year old farthing or sixpence pictures were taken with a 105mm Sigma DG Macro, I was not trying to pass them off as "Penny Macro", just showing what I may have to use if I couldn't find a One Pence coin for an image of the "IRB" letters, the farthing doesn't have any letters under King George's head, it is B.M.


Taken with an MX-1 in Macro Mode.

Found a One Pence coin so don't need to use the old coins

So this is my setup using my K3 with Pentax Bellows, Vivitar Extension tubes and a 20mm F4 reversed set up as below, penny stuck to door with Blue Tac:



This was a RAW image adjusted in Affinity to correct lighting issues:



Against the JPEG straight out of the camera:

Still looking for a penny, but found a hundred year old farthing instead🤭

I'm struggling to find a 1 pence coin in my house at the moment, loads of old change from holidays and pre decimal coins.




Off to the shops for some change 😆

Anyone fancy having another go at this thread while we are in lockdown?