A Camera Club and Flickr Mate loans me cameras to try out with real FILM!!
The latest one is a compact Pentax 'Pino 35' so I loaded it with some very outdated 'PhotoTec 400' that i cur from bulk that I was given via Sons of my Deceased Great Friend . I rated it at 200 ASA and processed in my Home-Made FX-15 ( Acutol-S Formula' stock strength to see if I could get a little 'Finer Grain' . I scanned with a PlusTek OpticFilm 7200 + Vuescan Pro + FastStone Image Viewer The PINO 35 is not easy to use as when I thought I was turning the 'Focus' the 'Light' thingy moved as well - then the ASA ring kept changing ! I did use the built-in flash on the Snowman pic. It was 'Guesswork' really ! I think it is a 'Fixed Focus' camera with only ONE shutter speed ! ( I was glad to GIVE IT BACK ! )

Had another go on kitchen table ( Don't tell The Wife! ) messing about with Still-Life and last roll of 1993 dated Fuji Neopan 400 and my 6x7 Mk II and one on the sofa ----










These are scans from [b]Darkroom Prints A5 size on Ilford Multigrade IV Glossy with LPL C7700 Pro enlarger + 105mm f4.5 E-Rokkor lens and colour head using Magenta for contrast. Print Dev was D72 formula 1+2

yes -- I'm not an 'Expert Cloner' ---

Raining all day so indoors ! Used up a short length. of 1993 dated Fuji Neopan 400 in my 6x Mk I and SMC-135mm f4 Macro . I tried IDll 1+1 for 8 mins @ 24oC -- but thin still.

Super Takumar 105mm f2.8 and Agfa 'VISTA' 200 kindly sent to me by a Flickr member 1/500th @f8

Asahi Pentax S3 with Agfa Vista 200 by Peter Elgar, on Flickr
Reflections in our Town Pond -- i think it was 1/250th @ f11

Asahi Pentax S3 with Agfa Vista 200 by Peter Elgar, on Flickr
Here I used 1/1000th at f5.6 on same film and that Super Takumar is SHARPER than my SMC Takumar!

Asahi Pentax S3 with Agfa Vista 200 by Peter Elgar, on Flickr
Super Takumar 105mm f2.8 and 1/125th @ f5.6 as light was failing -- it is sharp !


Asahi Pentax S3 with Agfa Vista 200 by Peter Elgar, on Flickr
Here is our Posh Garden Umbrella with a SMC Takumar 28mm f3.5

Asahi Pentax S3 with Agfa Vista 200 by Peter Elgar, on Flickr

For the SF-7 you need 2CR5 Batteries

I 'Rotate' my Old Film Cameras -- the SF-7 will 'come around again' I'm sure !

I have been very lucky to be donated a SF-7 body by one Forum Member and a SMC Pentax-F Zoom 35-70mm f3.5-4.5 by another so I teamed then up for an outing in Brentwood High Street loading with 12/2016 dated Kodak BW400CN 'Chromogenic Film' donated by a Camera Club Mate who got it in a Car Boot Sale. I used up the film with some ' Personal Family Snaps' and boring garden Photos . I processed it myself in C41
I find I have to press the shutter release very hard to get the shutter to fire-- which may cause Camera Shake in certain circumstances and when I used the built-in flash for 'Fill-in' I could hardly see any effect.

Out with my Old Friend from 1961 my 'First Asahi Pentax ' The S3 loaded with Agfa Vista 200 'Made in Japan' hence FUJI and a 105mm f2.8 Super Takumar I was given -- it is SHARPER than the later SMC Version I bought in Tokyo in 1973 I got for £ 30-30 inc Duty paid in Heathrow Airport.

the CANON 9000F Mk II flatbed is very good and sharp and does Medium Format as well as 35mm You need a 'Software' to adjust the colours as scans usually have a colour cast -- I use the 'FREE' www.faststone.org -- it does not have all the 'Tools' that PhotoShop has such as 'Selection' and 'Transform' but it does a good job. With the scanner i use 'Vuescan Pro' which I WON FREE and Mr Hamrick in USA updates it free every so often.