Ravensworth Castle-smaller par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity

Best wishes, Kris.

Interesting comparison, thanks. Lovely image too, reminds me of the Lofoten Islands. K.

I'll take 'em. I'll sort things out this evening when I get back from site. K.

Apart from loving my M100/2.8, I thought the OP was specifically asking about manual focus lenses...?

SMC Pentax-M 100mm f/2.8. I believe the A series version is the same optically, but will have the advantage of the A setting but the disadvantage of slightly poorer build quality.

K.

Some idea of price would be nice. Thanks, Kris.

I use the Darkroom UK. Expensive, but excellent quality especially for Ektar which is a fussy film.

As to airports, UK ones will not hand check film. I have, however, never had a fogged film. When I went round the world a couple of years back, I took to buying film along the way and mailing it back, but that was just being extra careful as I was doing multiple flights. A more normal there-and-back-again trip is no problem, certainly with films up to 400ASA which is what I use.

K.

Being rather fond of 135mm lenses I'd love to try one of these, but sadly a long way out of my price range. Has anyone used one?

K.

As I am addicted to square images I'm often cropping a third of the image away before I even start thinking about other things. Being able to crop heavily is certainly a bonus. I've only ever printed to A2 and have never really had a problem with any of my digital SLRs (K10/20/3).

K.