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Comment by TheVitalEye posted on Any Pentax Users around Watford/Harrow/Hertfordshire to meet up for days out or chat to share ideas etc at 27/02/2024 - 23:21
Black and White Photography works for me but then it, self-evidently, caters for my primary interest.......and then, I’m shootings film.
I do also access AP through my library on-line service and have to agree that it’s not what it was when I first started reading it (1961).......but then what is?
Mike
I do also access AP through my library on-line service and have to agree that it’s not what it was when I first started reading it (1961).......but then what is?
Mike
Comment by TheVitalEye posted on Photo' magazines. at 27/09/2020 - 18:38
Sorry, didn't mean to re-post this........no idea how it happened and now feel very
Take care,
Mike
Take care,
Mike
Comment by TheVitalEye posted on Any photographers unable to afford a camera? at 02/08/2020 - 20:45
Hi all,
I have actually been here before but managed to lose my account details and have now opened a new one (one of the perils of advancing age - never thought I’d come to write that!!).
I have been a Pentax user since 1963 (SV and S1a) and have also used Leica (M3) and Nikon (FM3a) in the intervening years. Was fantatic about photography since first learning to d&p at school and continued for many years - at times managing to earn a living at it.
Life, the responsibilities of marriage and raising children became greater priorities (surely a common tale?) and now I also have 4 grandchildren - so photography somehow faded into the background........aside from the usual family shots.
I still have my original S1a, together with a Program A that was an impulse buy, and have recently done the sticky mirror and incomplete shutter repairs on the S1a and will shortly undertake the light seal replacement on both.....oh yes, it’s still film for me!!
My eldest grandson (16) is getting into photography now - though digital, which is something I’d love to be able to explore with him......even though his parents bought him a Nikon(ooops!!).
I’m sure that I will be looking for help with the mysteries of digital and I’m certain that the resident experts will come up with solutions in the skilled and friendly way that I’ve found here since I (originally) joined.
Take care,
Mike
I have actually been here before but managed to lose my account details and have now opened a new one (one of the perils of advancing age - never thought I’d come to write that!!).
I have been a Pentax user since 1963 (SV and S1a) and have also used Leica (M3) and Nikon (FM3a) in the intervening years. Was fantatic about photography since first learning to d&p at school and continued for many years - at times managing to earn a living at it.
Life, the responsibilities of marriage and raising children became greater priorities (surely a common tale?) and now I also have 4 grandchildren - so photography somehow faded into the background........aside from the usual family shots.
I still have my original S1a, together with a Program A that was an impulse buy, and have recently done the sticky mirror and incomplete shutter repairs on the S1a and will shortly undertake the light seal replacement on both.....oh yes, it’s still film for me!!
My eldest grandson (16) is getting into photography now - though digital, which is something I’d love to be able to explore with him......even though his parents bought him a Nikon(ooops!!).
I’m sure that I will be looking for help with the mysteries of digital and I’m certain that the resident experts will come up with solutions in the skilled and friendly way that I’ve found here since I (originally) joined.
Take care,
Mike
Comment by TheVitalEye posted on Well, sort of...... at 21/07/2020 - 10:46
Hi Karl,
Just wondering whether you’d had any takers for your original, and very generous offer?
In the event that you still have the K10D etc., I would certainly be interested.
I have been looking at digital (yes, rather late on the scene I admit) but unable to contemplate laying out the sums involved - the demands of 4 grandchildren don’t help!!
If it’s already found a good home then that’s very pleasing but, if not........
Take care,
Mike
Just wondering whether you’d had any takers for your original, and very generous offer?
In the event that you still have the K10D etc., I would certainly be interested.
I have been looking at digital (yes, rather late on the scene I admit) but unable to contemplate laying out the sums involved - the demands of 4 grandchildren don’t help!!
If it’s already found a good home then that’s very pleasing but, if not........
Take care,
Mike
Comment by TheVitalEye posted on Any photographers unable to afford a camera? at 20/07/2020 - 12:18
Take care,
Mike