No, it is just one I had hanging around. I use Alan Marlowe for lens repairs/service. He did a very nice job of removing a touch of fungus from the rear element of a S-M-C Takumar 135mm f/2.5.

K.

The last big job lot was a lady who came on here asking about selling her Dad's camera equipment. In the end I bought the lot for a fair price, sold on what I didn't want and kept the rest.

K.

I've ended up with two of those tripods. There was another in the job lot of stuff I bought a little while back. K.

After a few people on Pentaxforums.com sung the praises of the Pentax SV I picked up a broken one for peanuts then got Eric Hendrickson to repair it for me. It has just got back from Eric and is now loaded with Ilford Delta 100 film. I have fitted it with one of my earliest lenses, an Auto-Takumar 55mm f/1.8. This one, however, has an automatic aperture like the later Super Tak, but the aperture ring goes the "wrong" way round. That'll confuse me...

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K.

Dust off those Auto 110s...

Sadly, saying "avoid cliches" is easier than actually doing it.

Kris

(Purveyor of cliches)

Nice Alan, very detailed and lovely. I personally like the first one best as it has a nice balanced composition. I'd be tempted to try and "crush the blacks", i.e., make the black background totally black rather than almost but not quite black.

K.

I wish you'd stop selling lenses I cannot afford!

K.

Unfortunately the various 3rd party offerings are not very wide. If you're after a shift lens for architecture the Pentax is the widest. Unfortunately, 28mm isn't all that wide on APSC although I found it worked very well when you had room, e.g., in a cathedral.

As a result, I invested in a 5x4 LF format set-up instead. Still worked out a fraction of the price of buying the Canon TS lens and a body!

K.

I rather like No. 3. Nice images, Sir. K.