Just to add to my last post, don't forget that all sales should also be for Pentax or Pentax related items only.

Obviously Sigma lenses are indeed Pentax related.

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This is a section to advertise and all comments should be questions about the sale.

Yes, so did I, very nice film. I did try the GAF 500 as well, but looking back at it I was stabbing in the dark and shooting pictures that weren't really suitable.

Hanimex lenses were a budget range of modest but reasonable performance. They also had a lower cost alternative that they labelled Hanimar.

He may not be when she reads this.

We do need to see examples to have an informed opinion, but a common cause of this is camera shake. Sometimes we are steadier than others.

Agreed, there is a tendency for some photographers to put the technology before the art.

The classic example I would use is those friends of mine in the film past who would be forever either shooting a "test film" or running experiments to see how sharp an image they could get. Of test charts usually.

You're right, images do not have to be sharp or follow all the static rules, but the content needs to be brilliant for it to be a brilliant image.

We need to know the rules though so that when we break the boundaries we understand what we are doing and why.

Perhaps "bokeh" is what used to be referred to as "plasticity", a quality attributed to German lenses. Japanese ones were regarded as contrastier, sharper, but lacking that indefinable quality.

Not at all. There is no need to have blown out highlights if you expose and process your film correctly and take full advantage of the skills available in the darkroom.

It's pretty much the same in Photoshop, which mimics the darkroom practice.

It's not the method that makes a great photograph, it's what the photographer does with it.

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