Me neither, nor would I care! In fact if I was a camera club member I'd probably find it hard to resist trying to upset the apple cart...

Not all of us, Bob!

I think the lighting is excellent, but some of the framing seems slightly lopsided to me, Shaun. No. 2 is my runaway favourite, apart from the disembodied hand!!

I'm all for recycling but in our small flat it's just not very practical. Currently we are still allowed to use black bags. Our charming neighbours were in the habit of putting theirs out several days before collection, ensuring a feeding frenzy for the local magpies and cats, and litter all over the pavement. But they received a visit from the local 'waste collection community facilitation officer'...

Nice shot! I wouldn't say the highlights are unacceptably clipped. There is actually a nice range of tones in his coat. And I can't see his eyes to tell if they're in focus or not!!

Edit - no prizes for guessing which of these was not taken by me!

Sorry these are such 'generic snapshots' but I thought they may be of interest to people contemplating using film and getting it scanned. Taken on Kodak Ektar, Pentax PZ70 with DA35mm lens (edit - and a few with the F35-70 and Samyang 85mm). No PP.

Developed and scanned by Snaps Photo Services - for 7.50 I got a CD with 36 23MB jpegs, scanned at 6774x4492 pixels!




A close up of the grain at near 100%. The scan resolution exceeds the resolution of the film, I think. I'm very happy with the quality of the scans.




Other Ektar shots:













I also had some old HP5 film to use up.

On the other hand, 349.00 is a tempting price!

Tried one in Jessops. I liked the look of it, but it did feel a little awkward. Next to the K30 with its deep grip, I struggled to find a comfortable way to hold it.

There was an interesting set of film images on the US forum (using the XS40mm lens but same difference)... My thoughts are that it's perfectly usable for people shots etc at f2.8, where the edges of the shot are out of focus. I wish I could find the thread again, some of the shots looked very nice.

These are absolutely superb. The shallow DOF makes such a massive difference to these sort of shots.