Good place to get climbing photo's too! Trevor crag is just up the hill from the town and hosts some great bolted-sports-climbs...

Love Llangollen!!

I've always struggled with Street-Photography but its something I've kept trying at; even though my output has been consistently poor - Think it's a conbination of nervousness pointing a big honking SLR at people I don't know and general impatience on my part amoung other things... So when I saw a 'Street-Photography-Workshop' advertised at one of the city's galleries I jumped on it...
Although not (or indeed anywhere near) to the standard of Cartier-Bresson or even Eric Kim; I am pretty happy with a set of six pictures taken on Saturday...



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As 'this' is the place for critism... Let the onslaught begin...

I tried my Tamron 17-50 2.8 on my MZ-7 a while back... Vignettes heavily at the wide end and although it lessens as you zoom in; it continues to vignette all the way to 50mm...

Still... I got some (what I consider) great shots in 'Northside Tattoo' in Newcastle link

Anyone here going to Photocamp in Leeds at the end of the month?

I went a couple of years back when it was held at the Media Museum and am going to this one too...

I just took part in another Exposure-Leeds workshop today at Impressions Gallery in Bradford -
link is a link to todays pics from me

They seem to be doing a fair amount of stuff across West Yorkshire at the moment...

I'll play...

Of the lenses I have it'd be between the FA35-f2 & the D-Xenon (D-FA) 100mm 2.8 macro...


FA35-f2 wins by a hair...

I got one a while back and although film 'can' be found you'll have to develop it yourself...
Not an issue for me as the Auto-110 I bought was riddled with fungus and was quickly binned...

"Grrr... That Auction Site... Grrr!!"

Certainly is!
If I had the cash It'd be on its way to me!!

The Auto-Focus only works with the Pentax-ME-F 35mm camera...

On all other cameras it will work only as a manual lens...

Most ME-F's on sale these days come with a manual fifty, crappy zoom or body only, so this really is a collectors piece...

If you're after an AF 2.8 lens for a dslr this ain't it... But if you have or would like a copy of the ME-F you'll want to snap its hand off!

Unfortunately I'm brassic or I'd nab it myself...

What I'm really waiting for pentax to release (obviously apart from fullframe) is:

A 16 megapixel dslr sensor in the body of an old MX, weatherproofed with a fixed 35mm f2 lens...

A take anywhere, tank-like, snapshot-machine... A real bridge-camera and not a superzoom...

Somebody told me recently that many macro or 'Bug-Photographers' refrigerate their insects to stop them skittering about so that they get better shots... I was quite shocked and also a little sceptical...

Is this really true? If so, what is the process? AND Do any of you actually do this?


I'm not sure I can 'get down' on the ethical application of this technique 'but' it certainly would make practicing macro a lot easier...


Thoughts?