Hi mate to you too.

A cursory glance at this website will show that the "just joined" forum is the most useless on here. Most folk join and say hi...never to be seen again.

Post some pictures or open new threads in the other forums if you really are interested.

Great stuff.

I remember when I got my SMC 50mm 1.2. Examining the lens with both caps off I took my first look through the front of the lens and was worried I was going to fall in it !

No 2 for me too

Lovely sunset

Great stuff Nigel, especially no. 3

ps good to see you posting again

Straw bales always make for a good image. Here in b+w is no exception.

Great stuff. No 2 for me.

Great capture. I always enjoy seeing your posts of creatures we don't see here.

Indeed it would work with a modern camera. The basic principle of camera meters is the same now as it was then. Metering has moved on with matrix metering being more advanced than centre weighted. Matrix means it can weight sections of your scene which will work very well in over 90% of cases. For the rest there is no substitute for understanding when you need to step in and use the compensation features of your camera or go for manual exposure.

Digital cameras give us something we never had in the film era, the histogram and the instant review. These enable us to get any compensation right immediately.

ps. I remember watching a documentary on Norman Parkingson. He was doing a portrait shoot with a medium format camera. First thing he would do was to put a Polaroid back on the camera. The ones where your film image would appear after a few minutes. This way he would get a good idea of how his lighting was working before taking the shots.

Lens corrections are available for some of the film era lenses. The three FA LTD lenses plus the FA* 24mm f2 and FA* 85mm f1.4 are included in the K1 software. I am pretty sure the FA 50mm 1.4/1.7 are too.