Used a lot M 50 1.4 and Tamron 17-50

used very little 28mm 2.8 as no faster than the tamron

Well done, very interesting project.
Your infra-red film pictures look good so look forward to seeing some digital ones.

2 and 4 are lovely, they catch the beauty and isolation

Was up there myself a month or two ago. Here's a photo from last year of the same thing link.

Still using an old optech one from 15 years ago

Taking my K-x as the basis, I'd like:
More pixels - so that I can crop a bit more.
Full frame sensor so that I can get the field of view and the combination perspective/foreshortening for each lens that I prefer from film cameras.
Brighter viewfinder to aid manual focusing - I expect the K-5 has this.

In an ideal world:
Black and white that has the texture of fast film.

Impossible: I want a camera to be small and light so that I carry it, but at the same time heavy and big like my old T90 so that I can hold it steady. Sadly these are mutually exclusive.

I converted from a canon T90 to a pentax k-x about 6 months ago. My observations are as follows:
Lovely to be able to take so many frames
great to be able to look at the exposure histograms.
Not so taken with autofocus, so have carried on using manual focus lenses.
So much easier to play on the computer than in the darkroom.

have now lost all shutter discipline.
the thing I miss most of all is the beautiful grain available with films like HP5+.

thanks for the suggestions, gave it a go with reversing the opposite sides sky, then smudging it in. not perfect but happy with it so far.
link
Rob

Hi
took this shot, really pleased with it, but either my hand or the camera strap intruded into the frame.
How can I fix this? I tried using a clone brush in gimp but with poor results (lack of skill).
Rob
link

As you may have seen in another thread, I've tried a split focus screen for a bit, but now I've turned the on focus beep and use my eyes and that. In a way its a bit like an autofocus lens where my hand is the motor - I'm using the same focus detection system. It's slower but after I get the in-focus indication I can then adjust to get exactly the focus I want.
Rob