No 1 is lovely and the sort of photo I would take. No. 2 is superb and the sort of image I wish I would take! No 3 is the marmite image. No 4 is the sort of image that made me go and buy the K28/3.5 shift...

Cheers, Kris.

Took me a while to find one at a sane price. Ebay BIN prices are daft. Lovely lens though. K.

Great set. The only suggestion I can think of is to clone out the dot to the right of the pavilion roof in the last one.

Cheers, K.

I am waiting for my stepping ring to arrive so I can try out the butchered lens set-up. Meanwhile, as it was a boring slow day I decided to try out some of my existing equipment. These are either my S-M-C Takumar 28mm f/3.5 lens reverse onto my SMC Pentax-M 100mm f/2.8 lens, or my SMC Pentax-M 28mm f/3.5 lens reversed (using a Pentax 49mm reversing ring). The former set-up allows very close focusing but with heavy vignetting, the latter less extreme close-ups but no vignetting. The last image was taken with the SMC Pentax-M 100mm f/2.8 lens on its own.



Spotmatic macro (1) par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity



Spotmatic macro (2) par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity



Spotmatic macro (3) par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity



Spotmatic macro (4) par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity



Spotmatic macro (5) par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity



Spotmatic macro (6) par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity



Spotmatic macro (7) par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity



Asahi Pentax Spotmatic par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity

Cheers, Kris

It would make a great t-shirt. PUG logo perhaps?

Great fun and I like it. K.

Ohhh pretty....!

Funny you should mention it, I'm just running a roll of Ektar through my ME-F and the AF35-70mm. I still haven't got the lens hood though.

K.

May well be too good for Google, but it seems a funny way to translate it otherwise. Haiku indeed. Oh well, those Auto-Takumars are worthy of poetry!

K.

This is from the listing of a lens being sold from Japan on ebay. I'm guessing it was translated by Google...

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It is a camera, the state of the lens.
A state. . . It is a lens of USED (excellent) screw mount M42.

"Beauty state"
An outstanding wound. . . I am not seen. Very beautiful.
An outstanding dent. . . There is not it
Working conditions. . . I worked and checked it, but the problem was not seen.

"Optical system"
Frosted glass. . . There is not it
A wound of the lens surface. . . There is not it
The very small dust enters

"I am not influenced by photography"
According to me, the general evaluation is a 10/8 point.

Please refer to a photograph for the details.

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I rather liked it! K.

I really like the first of the two mono images with the lovely sky. Great conversion of the image with a real "orange filter" feel about it.

K.