I have not been posting on here for many months, for which I apologise. For the last 18 months I have been going through a very acrimonious dissolution of my civil partnership which is still ongoing. This has brought huge legal bills, and led to me being excluded from my own house for three months. Thanks to the Family Court I am back here now with my dogs, enjoying what is likely to be the last summer in my house.

Some of you will remember my middle dog Ripley. He sadly passed away last month. He had epilepsy and whilst I had his seizures under control through drugs, the cumulative effect weakens the heart and he went into complete heart failure at the vets.

Now that my legal workload is reduced, even if temporarily, I hope to be posting images and engaging in forum chat once again.

Please forgive my absence.

Peter

.......and there I was hoping for a salacious post !

Nice night time shots mate.

....and received in double quick time, thanks John.

As with everything I have taken off your hands, it is in even better condition than your description.

Very happy.

The ME Super and ME F had very good viewfinders with 0.95% magnification and 92% coverage, better than the original ME (0.87/92%)

Best of all in the manual focus era of SLR's from Pentax was the MX at 0.97magnification and 95% coverage.

Just a heads-up to any non-UK posters on here who may wish to post an image via Imgur. We cannot see it !

Imgur have stopped access to UK based IP addresses. Details below

https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs/2025/09/statement-u...

I hear the sound of the worm-can being opened !

I do spend a lot of time on editing, and hopefully the end result is a lot better than the original, and more importantly resembles what I saw with my eyes, rather than what the dynamic-range limited camera sensor records................. eg.

I use raw files (DNG) and do the conversion in Adobe Camera Raw. If I have images where I need to bring out shadow detail I will concentrate on that in the conversion process, as well as the obvious white balance adjustment (if needed).

I then usually convert that to TIFF in AdobeRGB colour space. Reason being that TIFF is a lossless format, and retains almost all the data of the raw file. This means that the next stage of selective dodging/burning* can be done in Photoshop using layers.

Once I have the image looking how I want it in TIFF format, I will "flatten image", convert the colour space to sRGB, resize for web viewing, and finally add output sharpening. Then save the image as a JPEG. The RAW and worked-on TIFF will be saved too in case I wish to re-visit the editing process with them.

*as an aside, Photoshop does have a dodge/burn tool, but I do not use them. I prefer to use a selected part of the image, say sky, make a layer of that, and use the curves tool to adjust. This is less destructive.

Perfect xmas gift for my brother.... ordered

Well done Bill. So nice to see a genre of photography taken to a new level.

Peter

Keep recycling John !