Love the shot of the watch face and the Pentax 50.

It seems we were both board at the same time last night, I was playing with my Macro tubes, SMC 50 macro lens and some rock salt.

That Raynox is a good piece of kit by the look of it.

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PaulM

Whilst looking for a relatively cheap second hand K20D I came across this deal at TED's cameras.

http://www.teds.com.au/www/6/1001102/displayproductcategory/pentax-k20d--5534315...

Works out to be just over 500 quid for a new K20D body. I thought that was quite reasonable for a new body, I guess they are trying to shift older stock.

Unfortunately still just out of my reach though

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PaulM

There sounds like there is a lot of kit for your money in that lot Clarky, I am a little jelous.

Then Zenzanon and Nikkor lens for them are very nice, in fact if you get it let me know the I have 1 or 2 rolls of 120 film left (B&W I think) we can meet up and have an MF shoot. It will give me a chance to blow the dust of my S2A (the predecessor to the ETRS.)

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PaulM

Thanks for the judging Aiki, I hope your luck changes

Well done to all.

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PaulM

Welcome back back to you both.

Its good to see people with knowledge of technicalities and the enthusiasm for taking pictures comming back to the forum. Not to take anything away from any existing members of course, but exposure to many different styles and opinions can only be a good thing.

Well thats my opionion anyway

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PaulM

Good luck.

If you have the time and money a portable media thingy that lets you down load images to a hard drive might be a worthy investment.

As for advice, I am sure I read somewhere on this forum, that in the days of manual focus and film bodies, about setting aperture priority, and using an f-stop to give a good depth of field and a pre set focus point, then just shooting. I am sure some can correct me if I have this wrong

Maybe a water proof bag to keep it all in.

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PaulM

Good luck for the dig Kris, I hope its fruitful for you.

I found Romania to be a lovely place, although slightly cold this time of year.

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PaulM

Hi all,

Had a play with the new SMC 50 f1.7 macro lens, that I recently aquired. Stacked on all three macro tubes (12,24 & 36mm) along with my new samsung SEF-36PZF flash, just to see what sort of size / quality I would get. After trawling round the garden looking for some colourful bugs and insects, I gave up all defeated and came in side to see these on the wall.

[IMG]http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb113/pnjmcc/IMGP7075copy.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb113/pnjmcc/IMGP7044copy.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb113/pnjmcc/IMGP7043copy.jpg[/IMG]

All ISO 100, f16 at 1/180. I was using the flash on manual set to 1/2 power.

C&C's as usual.
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PaulM

[IMG]http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb113/pnjmcc/IMGP6989copy800.jpg[/IMG]

Taken on friday
EXIF (in case its missing)
K200D
Pentax SMC 50 f1.7 on a prinz 2 x teleconverter at f2.8
1/90 at f2.8 ISO 100.

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PaulM

edited cause I got the size wrong

Thanks Chris

I also found this using google, there are a couple of others there too (MX, ME Super and Program A)
The google search also turned up this this Which I found to be very helpfull. Its written around the ME super, but most of the stuff is very similar. Worth a read if you plan to dismatle one of these types of camera.

So armed with all this knowledge and a lot of confidence, I had a go at removing the top plate yesterday, everything went very smoothly up unitll the penultimate screw when I realised my small screwdriver set where a little (a lot) cheaper than I thought resulting in the tip shearing of in the screw head of the L/H screw by the viewfinder.

So I now need to buy a new (decent) set of watch screwdrivers and find away of getting the screwdriver tip out of the screw head without resorting to drilling it out. Its almost like its friction welded itself in.

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PaulM