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Comment by Peter Elgar posted on My K10D + M42 lens at 04/03/2014 - 12:34

Here is my 2007 bought K10D with a 35mm f2 Super-Takumar I use with the Screw/Bayonet Adapter -- it is very sharp even at FULL APERTURE unlike a later version I had bought in the 1980's with the 49mm filter thread which was a real DOG of a lens and needed stopping down to f11 at least !
It is DUSTY --it is a WORKING CAMERA -- not one for a glass cabinet and I do not keep 'Scrubbing' at a lens every time there are a few specks on it!
Comment by Peter Elgar posted on My K10D + M42 lens at 04/03/2014 - 09:08
You have some catching up to do -- I have been a PENTAX user since 1961 ---
Comment by Peter Elgar posted on Brand new Pentax user at 27/02/2014 - 13:09
Yesterday I gave my P30Nan outing loaded with a cassette for 'Cross-processing' I left it rated at 100 ASA and cut the film then processed in well-used C41 for standard time-- resulting 'negs' were all Cyan-Green but on scanning in my old Epson 1650 flatbed + Vuescan Pro I got a strange 'Red-Orange colour -- I did a small amount of 'correction' in Levels in PhotoShop 7 and on one I did a 'Posterisation' ; 50mm f1.7 SMC Pentax-M.


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Comment by Peter Elgar posted on Traditional Boxing Day events ( England) at 31/12/2013 - 19:35


I think it is a 1970's lens -- the 'second version' of the 35mm f2 Super-Takumar -- the 'third version' with the 49mm filter thread was the Dog of a Lens --it cost me £ 69-00 from David S. H. Leung Camera dealer of Goodmayes. My 'Selfie' is ME taking it in our Bathroom on the toilet seat on some old blue blind I use, with natural light and my daughter's Olympus mju 760 digital I won in a competition and David Bailey presented the prizes in a Gallery in London -- I gave camera to my daughter.