If I am out-and-about specifically to take photos for fun, I mainly use my older manual primes including Takumars, K, M and A series lenses. Which I take is a mixture of thought and randomness. If I am at an event, like the county show last weekend, I tend to use one or two zooms so I don't have to keep changing lenses. I took almost everything with the superb DA* 50-135mm lens last Saturday.

The one exception to this is at the very wide end. Lenses like the K15/3.5 are very heavy and unwieldy, and I tend to use the 12-24mm instead. The K17 fisheye isn't very fishy on digital. I tend to use those two lenses on film where the impact of the wide angle is as intended.

Hmmmm the 17mm on the K1... anyone tried it?

Essentially, it is courses for horses. There are times where AF and extra coatings etc. don't matter and the older lenses will do just as good a job. There are other times when the convenience wins out.

K.

It looks pretty good to me. It must look tiny on a modern dSLR. K.

Great set with 10 being my favourite. closely followed by 3. K.

MPP made very nice cameras, both medium and large format. The bellows would be an easy fix as you can still buy new ones, mainly from China. Providing the shutter hasn't gummed up it would be a lovely camera to use. All those movements for focus and perspective control. Marvellous.

I really must get my LF camera out more this summer. My wife bought me a light tent and made a nice hood so I have no excuse.

For those who have forgotten, here it is in use. I have upgraded the towel...



taking photos par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity

K.

Nice shots. How did you manage the badger ones? Off-camera flash? Thanks, Kris.

I like these sorts of images, well done.

K.

Thanks for the clear explanation, makes perfect sense now. The term "focus breathing" is about as obvious as an extremely non-obvious thing, however.

Great images of a lovely place. Well worth a visit if any one is in the area. Most of my shots of it are on film, and not all Pentax so I haven't been able to show them here.

If you hadn't said I wouldn't have guessed it was a new camera for you. Excellent stuff. K.

Lovely. Especially No. 3. Yup, stuff the rule book! K.

Yup, you are right but you also end up very close to the object you are focusing on. As ever, it is a trade off. I tend to use one of my 85mm lenses or my 100mm with tubes, sometimes a nifty fifty. I don't think I've tried something as short as 35mm.

BTW, I love the second one. The dark empty space along with the lovely flower makes for a great image. K.