I was given a PlusTek OpticFilm 7200 film scanner by a Camera Club member who got the later '8200i' from a Boot Sale for 20 quids in MINT condition. There were NO film holders with it -- after a load of 'Aggro' from an 'Amazon 3rd Party seller' who told lies that item has 'Been Dispatched' and never arrived and on complaining message was 'Technical Difficulties in Warehouse' and it was NOT dispatched I got them next day from WEX Photographic and got a refund with compensation of 30 quids from the Amazon seller.
Kodak Ektachrome Elite Extra -- PENTAX but cannnot remember WHICH one I had taken to Philippines

I thought at first there must be something wrong with your Computer -- THEN i thought 'Australian Film -- Down Under '----

Hallo Cobbers -- YES it's Pentaxpete again -- this time with some snaps taken on an Australian Film SUNNY 16 400 ASA which I was sent be a good YouTube Mate Roger Lowe who was sent it but does not 'DO' colour and has never developed a Colour fillum ! I had cut it as I had it first in my 1986 LEICA M6 but gave my Pentax MZ-5 an outing with a couple of lenses . Scanner was my Canon 9000F Mk II flatbed + Vuescan Pro + FastStone Image Viewer -- I reckon I got some 'Good Clear Snaps' !

SMC Pentax -F 35-80mm f4








SMC -Macro-Takumar 50mm f4

Worth it all that trouble you went to get these photos ! Very 'Dedicated' .

johnha -- I 'Recycled the Mirror up and down' and fired the shutter on my 1987 LX then it jammed -- the focal plane shutter has now stuck halfway across and there is a fault in the 'Capping' of the blinds so that 1987 one is now 'Nackered' !

It was from a Widower -- he had a Ugandan Wife who died and whose camera it was hardly ever used, then my Filipina Wife fixed him up with a Filipina Wife then HE Died ! His Prostate Cancer was worse than mine and spread ---

YES -- here it is with the 'Sirius' Zoom it c ame with but the Sirius has FUNGUS inside. The CHINON 50mm f1.9 is SHARP at full aperture and I took it Berlin in 2017 and got great Colour Pics.

Chinon CG-5 by Peter Elgar, on Flickr

John Riley is right -- it's not the mirror SURFACE or the Foam Mirror Bumper which is still good on both LX cameras -- it takes about 4 seconds from pressing shutter release to mirror finally moving up and shutter firing! WIFE has forbidden me to 'Spend Money on my Old Cameras' so I wanted a DIY solution if possible. I was given a great MINT Chinon CG-5 Pentax 'K' fit which has NONE of the Pentax ME Super and LX exposure problems where you have to rotate the Exposure Compensation and ASA Dials back and forth to clean contacts underneath and NO Sticky Mirror trouble so LX 's may be 'Retired' !

hi All --- I have two Asahi Pentax LX one bought 1987 the other s free gift from Pentax House ( RE -- the Famous FIRE Story) BOTH have then infamous 'Sticky Mirror Syndrome and both had exposure troubles!
I have cured the Exposure Troubles by Rotating the Exposure Compensation and ASA dials back and forth as on the ME Super, to clean the contacts underneath and both agree with my Weston Master V and on film gave good exposures now BUT the 'Sticky Mirror' drives me Nuts ! I had a look -- there are two very small 'Mirror Rests' , slightly different from 1987 model to the later model -- could i put a very small amount of Iso-Propyl Rubbing Alcohol OR Lighter Fuel ( Butane) on them to see if it cleans off any 'sticky' surface ?

Testing Asahi Pentax LX after I got the exposure working again, with my TOKINA RMC Tokina Mk II 28-70mm f4 which has an aperture stop down intermittent fault so not all shots were great. Taken at my Sister-in-Law's house with Window Light and JESSOPS Pan 100S cut from bulk and processed in home-made FX-4 Formula 1+1 for 8 mins @ 20oC.

Asahi Pentax LX with Tokina by Peter Elgar, on Flickr

LX with Tokina 01 by Peter Elgar, on Flickr

LX with Tokina 02 by Peter Elgar, on Flickr

LX with Tokina 03 by Peter Elgar, on Flickr

LX with Tokina 04 by Peter Elgar, on Flickr

LX with Tokina 05 by Peter Elgar, on Flickr