Welcome to the forums and good luck with your K50.

I haven't been to the north of Norway (only the south) but for that type of photography I would make two recommendations. The first is to take a good tripod because you'll need slow shutter speeds. The second is to consider taking an old manual lens or two, simply because you can set them to infinity focus without having to rely on the AF system, which may not work at night with a low contrast scene.

I find the best approach with this type of equipment nowadays is to download the PDF of the manual and save it on my phone. That way I have access to it at all times and without any weight at all.

Very good indeed, though I have to admit that I prefer your film work

Thanks. I use an Epson V500 scanner. It's pretty good for medium format, not so much for 135.

Here are a few 645 shots from a recent roll of Rollei RPX 100 which I ran through the camera. I only have one more roll of this, I bought two when I was on holiday in Germany a couple of years ago. There's a film shop in Berlin that has far more selection of films than is available in any shop in the UK or here in Spain and this is one of the few goodies I bought.

It seems like a good film - fine grain and good contrast and tones, very similar to FP4+.

I'm currently undecided whether to take the 645 or the less flexible but more travel-friendly Yashica Mat 124G on an upcoming trip to Galicia in October. It's a difficult decision.



Pentax 645 Rollei RPX 100 006a by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr



Pentax 645 Rollei RPX 100 005a by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr



Pentax 645 Rollei RPX 100 001a by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr



Pentax 645 Rollei RPX 100 015a by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr

Many thanks everyone for the comments. If you want to see any more, the other B&W film shots (and also the digital and colour 645 film ones) are in my Paris album on flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/69424694@N06/albums/72157667150229191

I find many B&W photos (and indeed colour ones) have the contrast boosted too high and it detracts from them, but that's not to my taste. I tried to keep the contrast realistic in these, while still giving them enough punch.

Many thanks everyone.

I think many cities suit black and white, but Paris especially as it's such a beautiful, vibrant and varied place.

Alas, the one cemetery I visited closed at 6pm, which I hadn't realised. I shot quite a bit there with the 645 and was about to switch to 35mm when I realised it would close in ten minutes

I don't know what the "do not love humans" posters are for, I haven't looked them up yet, but there were a lot of them and I thought them very intriguing.

A few years ago my wife and I spent a few days in Paris and I really loved it. Since then I've been itching to get and photograph it more, and wanted to do so largely on film. In the spring I tagged along as my wife went there on a business trip and spent the weekend with her and then three days on my own, wandering and taking pictures.

I took a Fujifilm X-M1 (with which I used various Pentax lenses), a Pentax 645 and a Ricoh XR-M, a very nice but little-known K-mount 35mm SLR from around 1987. I had a really great time just wandering and taking photos, especially on film. Using these old cameras and lenses is a real pleasure, far removed from shooting a digital SLR with auto everything, and in a beautiful place and not in any hurry it really is fantastic.

Here's a (large) selection of pictures all taken with the Ricoh using Pentax M series lenses - I took the 35/2, the 50/1.4 and the 85/2. The film is all Ilford FP4+ and these were developed by me at home (in Ilfosol 3 if anyone's inetrested) and scanned on an Epson V500.



Paris, Ricoh XR-M, FP4 104a by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr



Paris, Ricoh XR-M, FP4 107a by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr



Paris, Ricoh XR-M, FP4 095a by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr



Paris, Ricoh XR-M, FP4 091a by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr



Paris, Ricoh XR-M, FP4 086a by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr



Paris, Ricoh XR-M, FP4 080a by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr



Paris, Ricoh XR-M, FP4 067a by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr



Paris, Ricoh XR-M, FP4 064a by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr



Paris, Ricoh XR-M, FP4 059a by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr



Paris, Ricoh XR-M, FP4 078a by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr



Paris, Ricoh XR-M, FP4 048a by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr



Paris, Ricoh XR-M, FP4 044a by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr



Paris, Ricoh XR-M, FP4 034a by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr



Paris, Ricoh XR-M, FP4 028a by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr



Paris, Ricoh XR-M, FP4 027a by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr



Paris, Ricoh XR-M, FP4 018a by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr



Paris, Ricoh XR-M, FP4 009a by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr



Paris, Ricoh XR-M, FP4 050a by JonathanMacDonald, on Flickr



Paris, Ricoh XR-M, FP4 039a by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr

Brexit blues are kicking in hard.....

It'll be a default message for when something has been sold so I wouldn't be hopeful they will get any more any time soon.