This is the sort of job we local Press Photographers USED to get all the time - now there is a TEACHER with a 'School Camera' who takes them and sends them to the newspaper for FREE so any Freelancers or Staff Snappers don't get the job !

I bet even THAT one suffers from the LX 'Sticky Mirror' syndrome -- reason why I don't use mine much now !

I stick a small white label inside every Lens Cap front and Rear with name and address on -- many years ago I organised a 'photo-Hostelling' trip to Swanage YHA with my photo club members and we went to photograph a Chapel up a dusty lens - my wife found her NIKON Lens cap was missing -- well, we all searched and searched but no luck -- then a few days later the postman delivered a letter, inside of which was the lens cap !! All it cost me was a letter of thanks to the old couple and a stamp to pay their postage !

Hello -- I am a PENTAX USER since the S3 model in 1961 -- I got a job before then in the Ministry of Aviation as a Junior Photographer and used my Zeiss Contax IIIa to photograph at Farnborough Air Show and one of my shots on Ilford Pan F I processed in Beutler was blown up to table-top size ( it was an English Electric 'Lightning' I remember) I also went out with Senior Photographer to several aircraft factories and we used ex RAF WWII glass plate cameras 'whole plate size' to photograph various systems in Vulcan Bombers, Lightnings, Shackleton etc not easy doing a 30 second Time Exposure with the 'Moving Light Technique' when there was an army of riveters on the fuselage ! ( all for a wage of £ 7-15-0 a week ! )

i stopped using my 'Kit' lens for a while as it was back-focussing on my K10D but I did a job for local newspaper and had to climb up into a rotting CD4 aircraft and used the kit lens with 'manual focus'+ weak flash and it seems sharp enough --

Not good news- I was given a 1996 MZ-5 and took it to the Philippines for 5 weeks - no trouble -- ( YET!! )

Pete, I need full manual control - the ME is semi-automatic with aperture control (?) - does the ME super have more manual control? Would love to know who is so generous with film...

Film it is.

The ME Super HAS Manual exposure control NOT the ME ( I was given an ME body) -- it is easy to set -- well, I get LOTS of free film from being a member of a Camera Club and also some from the local newspaper and a kind lady on ephotozine read about my boy using my 'outdated films' for his photos and she contacted us and sent us free about 80 cassettes of B&W and Colour films, some in unopened packs of 10 !

NO -- don't take any notice of those above -- USE FILM !! Get a K fit lens series such as my KX from 1975 or a later ME Super-- very easy to use! You can get GIVEN loads of film now free -- I have lots in 2 fridges all FREE !



Pentax ME Super by pentaxpete, on Flickr


Asahi Pentax KX by pentaxpete, on Flickr


Film Stash--- by pentaxpete, on Flickr

Thanks -- that is my wife's out of focus flowers in a pot on the doorstep-- we DID have two large pots with topiary plants in but they were STOLEN from the doorstep just before last Christmas.

here are a few from second test film in my free Spotmatic F outfit -- I used 2005 outdated Kodak Ultra 400 rated 250 ASA and processed myself, scanned with old Epson 1650 , Vuescan and PhotoShop 7 to finish.
Glass door with my 50mmf4 SMC Macro-Takumar ar f5.6


SPF Test 02 by pentaxpete, on Flickr
The 150mm f4 SMC Takumar at f5.6


SPF Test 03 by pentaxpete, on Flickr
the 28mm f3.5 SMC Takumar at f8


SPF Test 06 by pentaxpete, on Flickr
My 50mm f4 SMC Macro-Takumar at f5.6


SPF Test 09 by pentaxpete, on Flickr