I did my latest YouTube Video on ' How to Use a Flash Meter' which you can see here --
PS -- No ANIMALS were 'Harmed' in the making of this Video --
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsfnMgCRsyY&t=53s

Don't forget I offer to Process negative FILM for Pentax User members CHEEEP no VAT !
I had to increase C41 to £5-00 a film but I can do Traditional B&W for £ 2-50 a film -- send me cheque + Stamped Addressed Envelope large enough to take strips of film say about 7 -8 inches long -- I can give my Address by Private Message I do NOT scan onto a Disc -- develop negatives only

i develop all B&W and most of my C41 and get E6 done by John Salim of Southend-on- Sea. I make up my own B&W Developers from basic Chemicals. I did a VIDEO all about making up ID 11 formula here :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7wiKj7YAdg

Dear Mr Grumpy Grand Pa ( i bet you are really 'Soft' with your Grand Kids )
YES please -- if you CAN find that AC adapter I can give it a good home - I have 2 Vivitar 283 and having been gIven a MIN T one with the Filter Holder, Filter and Lens kits want to use them for my Demonstration at Brentwood & District Photographic Club.ONE of the 283 has a broken hot-Shoe fitting s cannot be fitted into camera or a slave unit Let me know if you find and any Fees etc -- Many Thanks
Peter Elgar The Old Film Bloke from Darkest Brentwood ESSEX Former Royal Army Medical Corps --

WANTED -- a SB-4 AC Mains adapter for VIVITAR 283 -- also i have the 'Made in Japan' ones dated 1978 and 1979 -- do you think these are the 'High Trigger Voltage ones' ?

Thanks All -- the vase of Flowers was on a table outside an Italian Restaurant in Crown Street Brentwood. the 'Portrait' was a quick one as he Joked " Take a Photo of ME Mate" so I quickly set 80mm, 'Program' exposure and raised the built-in flash as he had dark shadows on face.

At last i finished a Fuji Superia 200 in my Pentax MZ-5 using a few different lenses, around Brentwood Essex ( England) . I scanned with Plustek 7200 + Vuescan Pro + FastStone Image Viewer to adjust a little.
SMC Pentax-F 35-80mm f4-5.6






SMC Pentax-F 100-300mm f4.5-5.6




SMC Pentax-M 135mm f3.5

The 90 year old Club Member who gave me the NIKONS also gave me an Asahi Pentax Spotmatic -F then contacted me saying he had found 'another lens' I could have -- it was a 'Super Multicoated Takumar 35mm f3.5 ' little 'Jewell ' of a lens so i went out today taking some boring 'Brickwork shots' of Buildings testing resolution at full aperture but got this Bloke + Dog at full aperture in Brentwood High Street 1/500th @ f3.5 on KB14 processed in home-made ID11 Formula 1+3 for 8.5 mins @ 20oC

I was given a Pentax Zoom 90 compact Film Camera by a Camera Club member and at last had ordered some 123 Lithiums for my 6x7, same as fit the Zoom 90 so 'gave it a go' -- it has all 'Program' exposure mode with NO readout what is happening. It does have modes for 'Flash on Flash Off' , 'B' and 'B' + Flash and exposure compensation but again NO readout by 'How Much' , and it is only '+' compensation. It had 'DX Coded' contacts so as my film was reloaded in an old FP4 cassette from the 1970's it 'defaulted' to 100ASA, which is what I wanted. You can also have Delayed action and fast drive. The RESULTS were a bit disappointing -- many 'simple non-moving' subjects were just Out Of Focus ! Definition was not very good on most but I did get ONE sharp one of our Town Ruins -- It is going on e-bay for an 'Unsuspecting Buyer' -- !!

I was given a PENTAX Zoom 90 by a Camera Club member some years ago and just found it in my cupboard so thought I would try it out with some KB200 cut from bulk that I got from my Deceased Great Friend via his Sons --- Results were mostly not sharp, badly focussed where I was taking Street Photos at 'Waist Level' and even where I held it to my eye some were not sharp . I also tried the fill-in flash.
Here is a sharp one of Grafitti


this Street Candid at waist level not bad


Romford Market in The Rain -- candid not really sharp


Good Light + Flash not really sharp


Bloke on E-Scooter not really sharp


Flash + Daylight - not really sharp


This was the 'Best one' of all the tests = i held a Yellow Filter over the lens as well