years ago I got an early version Super Takumar 35mm f2 with the huge front element off an Old Gent with my SV. It WAS perfect -- now giving it an 'outing ' I find it will not focus to 'Infinity' -- all tests are out of focus! Also, something indoors at about 9 feet away is over 30 feet on the focus scale. What a Shame! There is a narrow 'Ring' where it screws into lens mount and screws were a bit loose -- so I tightened carefully but it did not cure it. I have looked at Film Plane with x6 maginifier and a ground glass and my S3 on 'T' and it is out of focus on infinity. No sign of loose lens elements when shaking gently. Any IDEAS please? Attached pic of lens on my K10D

Just 'Keen Observation' after many years doing Press Photography for local newspapers ! I was about 4.5 feet away with a 35mm wide-angle lens, 1/30th @ f5.6

Yes Folks -- Super Sleuth PENTAXPETE got a scoop with his Trusty Asahi Pentax Spotmatic- F in the Sleepy Town of BRENTWOOD in Darkest ESSEX !! His keen observation through the grimy window of the derelict 'Dorothy Perkins Brentwood Branch ' ( now gone BROKE) rewarded him with a 'Murder Scene' which he snapped on 2008 outdated Ilford Delta 400 Pro and processed in home-made ID11 formula 1+1 for 9 mins @ 20oC. Brentwood PC Plod investigating ----

went to KENYA with The Pentax Club of Great Britain organised by Peter & Liz COX ( What ever happened to them ?) I took PENTAX Program-A that was a Prize in the Pentax Magazine (long gone BROKE ! ) for SLIDE film and on opening the GEPE Glass mounts to check and try to get rid of FUNGUS found I had used 'ILFOCHROME 100 ' and AGFA 100S and just a few FUJI 50 films. That ILFOCHROME was same as the AGFA but CHEEEEPER and ILFORD Discontinued it not long after it was launched ! Cannot remember what LENSES I had.
ILFOCHROME 100 slides












I have MORE but these are enough for now --

FLAN YES that AGFA film will still be GOOD to use -- I have some outdated as well and it works well in RODINAL 1+50 OR ID11 1+1 . As it is a 'slow' film and stored well you can rate it at 25 ASA as on the box I reckon.

yes -- a Pictorial Scientific Photo ' !

The annual 'SINULOG FESTIVAL' is on Cebu Island every January -- I went some years ago now. I went on the Sunday to a Sports Stadium for the 'Judging' with members of Cebu Images Camera Club using PENTAX ME Super for 'Print' film and Program A for 'Slide' film I cannot remember WHICH slide film it was .

Filipino Girls by Peter Elgar, on Flickr

SINULOG DANCERS 02 by Peter Elgar, on Flickr

SINULOG DANCERS by Peter Elgar, on Flickr

SINULOG PAINTED FACES by Peter Elgar, on Flickr

Hallo Flan --- Well you are luckier than ME with the Program -A - mine did not last very long before developing a serious shutter problem -- then a PENTAX repairer said there were NO MORE SPARES for the Program -A so I sold it at my Camera Club Auction for a couple of quid to a member . Regarding the Kodachrome -- I have DUMPED a few cassettes I was given and kept only ONE as a 'Museum Piece' as the K14 process finished in 2010 by Dwaynes Lab USA and cannot be processed any more.

I have scanned a few of my PHILIPPINES slides taken some years ago on a Pentax Program-A that I WON as a Prize in the Pentax Club of Great Britain magazine ( before it went BROKE ! ) I used PLUSTEK OpticFilm scanner + Vuescan Pro + FastStone Image Viewer to correct colour.