Kentwell Hall in Suffolk England was finished mostly in 1540 and is now the home of Patrick Phillips bought in 1971 -- almost a ruin but restored and hosts many 're-enactments' the most famous of which are those of 'Tudor Times' .. I organised a trip for members of Brentwood Photographic Club-- we had bright sunshine which made portraits difficult because of their hats and the contrast. I took my 1996 Pentax MZ-5 for colour neg and my 1984 Mamiya C220 for B&W. I used 'fill-in flash' where i could outside. Lenses were mostly a 35-80mm f4-5.6 SMC Pentax-F and a 24m f2.8 Carl Zeiss Jena and 135mm f3.5 SMC Pentax-M all on 2006 outdated Konica VX200 film I rated at 125ASA and had processed by BOOTS Brentwood High Street and I scanned the prints.

Kentwell 03 by pentaxpete, on Flickr

Kentwell 04 by pentaxpete, on Flickr

Kentwell 07 by pentaxpete, on Flickr

Kentwell 08 by pentaxpete, on Flickr

Kentwell 24 by pentaxpete, on Flickr

Especially on the first one I would have pulled up the Built-in flash'as I do on my K10D or my MZ-5 and given it some 'fill-in flash' as it is very contrasty and no worries as they knew you were snapping them.

I have tried that AF tracking on my K10D and it does not work very well -- it always 'back focuses' -- I took some at the annual Half Marathon and Fun Run and the buildings in the background are much sharper than the moving runners -- I used to get much better results with manual focus and my film cameras so I use manual focus now.

Sorry -- of course it was the EASTER Bank Holiday NOT the MAY but cannot find a way to 'Edit' the words after uploading

The annual May Bank Holidat Monday invasion of Southend-on- Sea Essex ( England) by 'Mods' and 'Rockers' with their scooters and motor-bikes but they did not FIGHT as they did in the 1960's as they were all PENSIONERS!!
I took 'Classic PENTAXES' a 1961 SVloaded with 2005 outdated Ilford FP4+ which I processed in Ilfotec LC 29 and did darkroom prints with my Durst M305 enlarger + 50mm f4 El-Nikkor lens and my 1973 Spotmatic Floaded with Kodak Royal 25 film and various SMC Takumars.

I took Press Photos at the annual 'Walk of Witness' in Brentwood, Essex on Good Friday -- I used my 18-55mm SMC Pentax DA lens on 'manual Focus' as I still get 'back focus' troubles and also a few with the 70-150mm f4 SMC Pentax-M zoom -- on some I used the built-in flash for fill-in.

Re: Gartmore and Ron Spillman : Yes -- I was a lecturer for the Pentax Club of Great Britain in the 'Good 'ole days' and did a few Hotel shows for Peter & Liz Cox and everyone thought they learnt a lot. Wonder if they are still OK -- never hear about them now .

Today was my Birthday ---- went to London with family -- I took my 1975 Asahi Pentax KX loaded with some Agfa Vista 200 I wanted to use up-- I looked at ALL the other 'camera users' -- well NOT ONE PENTAXuser in Westminster, London Eye, South Bank,Trafalgar Square, or on the packed trains did I see -- all had Canons, Nikons and Sony -- not ONE FILM camera -- mine was the only one I saw .. come on Ricoh do something to get the Pentax back in favour -- do some marketing for once !

Some 30 year old Kodak Ektar 25 I had in my fridge for years -- at last enough light to try it out -- I did first test in my Canon AE-1 and they were a bit 'thin' so I cut film and loaded into my 1975 Asahi Pentax KX and gave it more development in some well-used C41 and thay came out better but scanned with a Blue cast which I corrected in PhotoShop 7 'levels' just as I would doing RA4 colour prints in my darkroom

Spring Blossom on next door's house , 135mm f2.8 Vivitar lens I was given with a Cosina CT-1-- 1/125 at f5.6


Ektar 25 10 par pentaxpete, sur Flickr
Southend-on-Sea Essex, KX + a £10-00 Car Boot Sale Bargain 24mm f2.8 Carl Zeiss Jena at f5.6


Ektar 25 11 par pentaxpete, sur Flickr
Close-up of the hoarding shown above, 50mm f1.4 SMC Pentax-M at f5.6


Ektar 25 13 par pentaxpete, sur Flickr

I have two MX -- both not working properly -- I wore out the flash contacts on one using it with flash for so long !! You can get C41 colour processing done by 'BOOTS' the chemists branches -- we have a good one here in Brentwood and Bill the operator KNOWS about photography and gets excellent prints from my outdated films -- then there are Pharmacies which deal with 'SigFoto Labs' and they are also excellent quality -- I will see if I can find a sample scan of a 6x4" BOOTS processed print ---

BOOTS print -- No colour cast here and it was 2005 outdated Tudor 100



MZ-5 Prints 04 par pentaxpete, sur Flickr

SIGFOTO print -- outdated Fuji Reala 100



Fruit Girl par pentaxpete, sur Flickr

These were on my 1996 Pentax MZ-5 I was given