I've just posted off four more rolls of Kodachrome 64. Only a few more rolls left and the deadline for developing them is approaching rapidly.

K.

You might find this amusing!

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I have been looking for this book for a while (I couldn't order it on Amazon as I had forgotten the exact title) and finally found it in The Strand bookshop in NY (amazing place). The photographs in it, by German photographer Christopher Thomas, are simply stunning. They were taken using a 5x4 view camera and Polaroid Type 55 P/N film. They are a series of views of New York, some famous some not, with no people in them whatsoever. Mostly taken in the early hours of the morning coupled with long exposures (type 55 is ISO 25 to 50 depending on how you use it). Well worth a look.

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A few months ago there were complaints that there wasn't enough choice between the kit lenses and the DA*/Ltd lenses. If this is the start of a mid-priced range of primes then it will be a good move.

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Very odd, mine works fine. Metering is a bit ropey (tends to over expose as you stop down) but otherwise great. I also use my S-M-C 28mm f/3.5 fair bit.

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They can be, a lot depends on the negative/slide, the type of film used (some scan better than others) as well as the printer/paper combination.
TBH, if you just want prints of select negs you are probably better off sending them off. Scanning is a slow and painful business and by the time you have got a scanner, some negative cleaning fluid and pads, printer, paper, extra computer memory and so on it has turned into a major investment.

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Hells Bells. All this fuss over half a stop! The question will be what the IQ is like at the same aperture? Great having an f/1.8 lens but less so if you have to stop it down to f/5.6 to get reasonable IQ.

All this reminds me of Pentax bringing out SMC-M 50mm f/1.7 lenses which were clearly faster and superior to mere f/1.8 lenses. And the volume on my stereo goes to 11...

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Sorry.

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Lovely set all round but number 4 is my favourite. I'm hopeless at snapping people and am very impressed by this selection.

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The Pentax LX with a motordrive (and probably a NiCAD powerpack) could shoot an entire 36 exposure roll of film in 7.2 seconds and an entire 250 exposure bulk film back in less than a minute...

As photographers we have lots of tools available, many for quite specialised functions. Some get misused. How many people have seen folks with the pop-up flash on their dSLR permanently on, whatever the circumstances?

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