Specsavers advertises on British TV with the line 'Should have gone to Specsavers' -- they are an optical company and use PENTAX spectacle lenses.

I almost MARRIED a French girl in the 1960's, Francoise Lachaise ( The Chair !)and her parents had an apartment in Paris and a Country House-- she ended up marrying ( and Divorcing ) a Frenchman, Bernard, who had lots of posh suits and black leather gloves - I had only a British Army Demob suit ! ( But I DID have a PENTAX !! ) She should have gone to Specsavers, they use PENTAX !
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I'm glad when 12th Night comes and all the decorations come down - can't move in the lounge now because of the wife's 14 Santas doing everything from riding a motor bike to playing a saxaphone and the hanging ones keep getting in the way ! Agree with Bah Humbug !
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Brentwood Photographic Club has many PENTAX users and I used to run the Essex Group of the Pentax Club with my ex-wife (who went off with an MX +120mm f2.8 Pentax-M lens !) There are two of us, both ARPS, who also have the 6x7 Pentax and have many years experience -- I teach photography at the club -- please come along, any Friday, from 7.45pm to: Friends' Meeting House,Hutton Road, SHENFIELD,road to Billericay,200 yds from Shenfield Station, free parking,opposite Hussey & Greaves and Shorter Avenue -- I will even treat you to a 30P tea & biscuit ! Regards- Peter.

Womble : I can develop your Mum's 120 and 35mm films but NOT the 110 -- I do not charge £5 a roll either ! £1-50 for B&W and £3-00 for C41 colour neg -- please PM me if you are interested - I have over 50 years experience in processing -- started in 1951 in my Mum's bathroom and put a notice in the window saying 'Film Developed and Printed' and a young Policeman came to the door and scared my Mum ( as I was away Youth Hostelling in Belgium ) but he was asking about the film processing -- I have been friends with him ever since and he is 76 now !

I have taken some good shots of my boy's tropical fish on my Hasselblad and a Mamiya C220 I was given using my 1950's Braun Hobby unit with twin flash heads on old tripods, one over the tank facing down, one through one side -- I will see if I can link some pics from Flickr onto here --

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Here is a PENTAX one I found !

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This is a Mamiya C220 on outdated 1987 VPS III I developed myself in C41

I have had a Metz 45CT1 since the 1970's and never had any trouble-- it still works-- also, I have several Braun Hobby Units from the 1950's some rescued from a photographer who was going to dump them and some others given and they all work (mains only-- the acid accumulators have long since dried up ! ) I have a Bowens Monolite 400 bought for £50 and the tube is still good.

Hi Ian : are you the 'famous' Ian Sheppard of Brentwood who had 47 pentaxes and used to belong to Brentwood Photographic Club and photographed Foxes in the back garden ? PS I also have a Sunpak Auto 36 DX : you sold me a Pentax adapter for 10 quid but I have put back the original Olympus one and given it to my boy for his OM2n PPS It doesn't work properly on TTL metering with Pentax LX or the OM2n.

There are at least TWO of us in Brentwood Photographic club who use Pentax and I take the 'official' photos of the Trophy Presentations at the AGM and I usually use my ME Super with a £1 Russian 85mm f2 Jupiter lens with screw - bayonet adapter for 'interest' and members comment on how good the photos are -- ( I use outdated film and flash is bounced Bowens 400W unit ).All my 'most famous exhibition successes'have been on my PENTAX gear.

regarding 'early images' from the Box Camera -- YES, I have one in a photo album, a contact print on Kodak Velox paper and also a half plate enlargement of my Mum in the garden I did on the school Photo-Soc. Gnome enlarger with f8 or f11 lens, and I took it home wet between two sheets of school graph paper and it still shows the green lines on it -- my Mum died in 1989 age 89 years old.