Thanks, yes, the light is great at the moment. Apparently it was even nicer today but unfortunately I went into the office today and it was gone by the time I got home. I used the opportunity to have a wander round my favourite spots in Stuttgart at lunchtime and fill up the rest of my first roll of film. I’m taking it to be developed tonight and am hoping that amongst the many expected misfires there are one or two decent shots.

Here's a couple of shots across my town with the nice sunset tonight. The light was changing pretty quickly, felt like almost between shots!

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C&C welcome as always

Lovley stuff. It's interesting that the pre-digital-era equipment generally gets quite a lot of attention but the early digital stuff much less so. You've highlighted here that you can still get just as good results as the day it was launched, i.e. very good and more than suitable for large prints etc.

Excellent set, looks like you're going to enjoy using that lens! The colours and sharpness really stand out, expecially in nr. 5 for me.

Nr. 7 almost looks a bit like HDR, did you do something in partiular to bring out the detail in the tree on the right hand side?

Thanks, funny how these things work out sometimes and a good reminder that even if it wasn't quite what I was after, better not to delete immediately.

After my earlier post, I went out for a walk with the dog in the woods and took a few more, getting pretty image heavy now but here goes:

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Here are some bonus ones, not with the 28mm lens but with the 120mm 2.8 S-M-C Takumar:


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Here's the culprit:


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Here are a couple of samples from a lens I just received, all wide open. I bought it as a quick option to switch to wide angle when I'm out and about with the m42 Takumars. I deliberately chose wide open samples as that's how I primarily intend to use it. If I get round to it later, I might try some smaller apertures to look at sharpness across the frame.

The f2 is really quite nice for a bright image in the viewfinder and switching between auto/manual on the lens allows relatively simple stop-down metering and full aperture focussing. Even at 28mm (on an K5iis), the DOF is quite narrow and the minimum focus distance is really quite short. I like the way it renders between the in-focus and slightly out-of-focus areas and it has enough sharpness at f2 for my tastes. The handling isn't quite as nice as a Takumar, it feels solid enough but the focus ring isn't quite as buttery smooth.

It was quite fun trying to take a picture of the dog whilst siting much closer to him than with a 50mm or 85mm lens. He interacts with me differently, from further away he's less interested. I never really tried any portrait photography (of humans) but would be interested to hear from those who have about whether 28mm on an APS-C can be an interesting focal length for that use.

I think it's a keeper and will find a home in my coat pocket.


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C&C always welcome. One thing I noticed is that the Bokeh in No. 3 is somewhat interrupted by a few brambles, give's it a sort of slightly manic look which wasn't really what I was going for.

Excellent set of images, gorgeous light expertly captured, great job! Nr 3 really stands out to me.

Thanks! I know there are more lengths to fill out a collection (which I may end up doing in due time…) but the combination of the 50/85/120 Taks works well as a portable set to me.

I think the 35-70 is also a nice extension to my mainstay 16-45. Again, it‘s so compact I barely notice it in a coat pocket. I don‘t love some general aspects of the Pentax-F range design but in this case it works for what it is - a very compact 35-70 with decent image quality and Pentax character.

After just having looked round for (and found) one of those recently, I believe that particular lens was made by Tokina and was considered a premium model (hence the the red P). There are lists of serial numbers which support this (1st digit = 1 suggests Tokina). I couldn‘t find a definitive answer whether C/D means computer-designed or compact-design but either way it should be an indicator of a high quality product. Maybe others know more?

I chose that model as I wanted a circa. 24-28mm relatively fast m42 option to take out with my Tak primes which could be quickly swapped out with faffing with the adaptor.

The SPOTMATIC looks very nice, I‘ve got to admit a slight temptation to trying one. How does the metering work with the S-M-C Taks (with auto/manual switch)? Could someone try to explain it in terms someone who has only every used DSLR can understand?

Nothing too fancy, just some test shots with a couple of new toys (didn't take long until the motivation to buy lenses returned!). All but the last two are with 120mm. If there's a theme, I'd say it's loosely autumnal.

Comments and criticsim welcome as always.

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