My old K1 will be six years old in a few months. This looks a great offer. Ordered

My LBA has mainly focussed on vintage lenses. I grew up with a MX and the statutory trio of M series 28/2.8 50/1.7 and 135/3.5.

Almost 20 years ago I decided to collect the entire series of M lenses. Ebay loved me !

I acquired over the years every M prime and zoom with the exception of the 2000/13.5 Reflex and the 35/1.4. Yes including both versions of the 28/2.8

It should have stopped there, but then decided to add the focal lengths from the "K" series for which there was no M equivalent made like the 15/3.5; 17/4 FE; 18/3.5; the 24's and the 30/2.8. It should have ended there, but the K and A 50/1.2 followed and then the 16/2.8FE tempted me as did a 28/3.5 Shift and a K series 28/3.5. A The Hollywood 28/2 was I think the last vintage lens I bought from a well known member here.

It has been great fun and i have learned a lot (become nerdier) along the way. I still give the old lenses an outing on digital and occasionally film too.

The M 135/3.5 has always been regarded as an ok lens, nothing more. Probably because they sold in plentiful numbers and were very reasonably priced.

I think it is a stellar lens that has never disappointed me on film or digital.

Cracking captures. I bet the sound was pretty awesome too.

When I was a kid my dad kept birds in aviaries in the garden.... budgies and exotic finches. So if ever an injured wild bird was found in the village it would end up at our home for recuperation. One young Blackbird was nursed back to health. My dad used to be home at 4 pm every day and would feed it. When it was fit enough to be released he set it free. The following day at 4 pm it returned calling out to be fed. It would land on my dad's hand and spend a good few minutes eating before flying away. This continued for three months, every day at the same time.

Lovely shots and lovely story. Sometimes a little help makes the difference between survival or death.

You are now official foster parents

The images are only bettered by your mechanical ingenuity

I like them. I see a snake above a bird in no. 3

I am not finding the blue sky to be particularly intense. There is however certainly a cooling effect on the rocks which would benefit from some warming up.

I am wondering if there is a problem with the colour profile the images are tagged with. RTv4_sRGB seems to be a Raw Therapee propriety profile and not what I would normally expect for web postings ...... sRGB.

Colour profiles are a minefield, and in some cases less important these days when most browsers will deal correctly with profiles.

I wonder if LOT could re-post the images after changing the output colour space to sRGB and see if it makes any difference.

I like these. The FE offers a unique perspective.