I echo John's sentiments. No 2 is my favourite. K.

Judging by sold listings on ebay about £100.

Thanks all. It is one of my daily images for the "Single in... " challenge on the US site.

K.

I don't understand why it is scary. Virtually all 35 year old cameras need their seals and buffer foam etc. renewed if it hasn't been done already. The LX is only different in that rather than just manifesting itself in black muck all over the insides of the camera, it also affects the mirror. The LX's weather and dust seals, usually regarded as a plus point, have to be replaced if one opens the camera up for a service which is why they are relatively expensive to CLA. One has three choices:

1. Buy an LX which has been serviced and pay a premium.
2. Buy an LX which needs a service, negotiate a discount and send it to Robin or Eric. Once it comes back you'll be good to go for another 35 years.
3. Buy a less sophisticated model. It'll still need a CLA. The KX is very popular but bigger and chunkier, the MX is a minature marvel, the Super A has more automation...

Given you mentioned KEH, I assume you are stateside? I would have negotiated a discount and sent it to Eric. He is the world's best (film) Pentax repair/service person and you could have been 100% confident of having a lovely working LX. Several times I have bought a cheap "spares or repairs" body (e.g. my ESII) and just sent it straight to him. Result? A beautiful working camera...

Best wishes, Kris.

Not been a racing fan, I'm rather drawn to No 1, but No. 3 is the stand-out image for me. Just enough blur to show speed, but not so much that you cannot appreciate the location. Excellent stuff all round. K.

OOC? Just looked up wikipedia and it suggests "out of combat"! Out of camera? The photo has been edited in Lightroom but I didn't crank up the saturation etc. dramatically (+14 on the saturation slider, slight S-curve on the tonal curve, -19 on the blacks). The inside of our giant tulips really are that colour!

K.

This a lovely lens and quite a step up from the later M series 135mm. Highly recommended. Someone should snap it up.

K.

Whew! I'm glad it sold. I kept looking at my savings and telling myself I didn't really need it. But then, do I really need half the lenses I have on the shelf...?

Best wishes, Kris.

I'd be frustrated without PS in some form (although my old CS3 version still does everything I need) but I like the Lightroom -> PS when needed -> Lightroom workflow (ugh, did I really use that word?). In practice, 99% of my editing is in Lightroom with only occasional forays into PS. The one exception is work stuff where I have to edit photographs of artefacts so that the background is pure black or pure white, and some times I have to composite multiple views of the same artefact into one image. For that sort of task, Lightroom just doesn't have the tools.

K.

K-3, SMC Pentax 'K' 85mm f/1.8 lens.



May 9th: Inside a tulip par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity

K.