Welcome to the fora, Terry. You'll enjoy the new camera and will soon be suffering from LBA with all those old lenses to choose from...

Merry Christmas, Kris.

I probably spent too much time shooting 64ASA film. I am very much of the 'cup hand under lens, tuck elbows in, feet slightly apart, breathe deep, shoot...' school.

Merry Christmas, Kris.

The sidecar wheel drive is one variant, they don't all have it, just the 'off-road' versions.

The original BMW was highly thought of, the Ural is a bit more variable! You can get modified ones where they have thrown away the Russian engine and replaced it with an old air-cooled BMW flat twin but then you loose the sidecar wheel drive.

K.

The bus hasn't been up my lane since last Thursday. I have been fortunate that my upstairs neighbour has a 4x4 (I never thought I'd ever say those words!). As I rely on a motorbike for transport life has been a little difficult lately. I must get myself a Ural as a back-up (Russian copy of a prewar BMW with a side-car, additional side-car wheel drive and a reverse gear) as they were pretty much designed to cope with these conditions.

Be thankful you are in India!

Merry Christmas, Kris.

Not to have a power cut for 44 hours I hope. We now have a rather large generator thudding away just over the fence. My phone went flat, my laptops went flat, and I even had three flat camera batteries. The temperature in my flat fell to a bracing 10 degrees and I had to boil water on my neighbours log burner to have a cup of tea. I shot a lot of film yesterday as a result!

K.

I agree. Many view camera lenses go down to f/64 and this looks, from the lighting, to have been a quite bright room with large windows. My guess is a banquet camera taking huge negatives and stopped right down. The writing on the photo was probably done by writing on the glass when making the contact prints.

K.

Well done, nice to see young Pentaxians!

Next job, show her how to hold an SLR. She might get horrible camera shake holding it like that and then blame the camera which wouldn't do!

Merry Christmas. K.

No filters at the time. In PP I added a curves adjustment layer and a black and white adjustment layer. I then added a digital soft ND grad adjustment just to darken the top of the sky a little. Lastly I added the frame. All this in CS3. I then sharpened and exported from Lightroom to a jpeg.

Best wishes, Kris.

A less hurried edit of my shot entered in the fortnightly competition "juxtaposition".

Best wishes and Merry Christmas, Kris.

Nicely done Dr., and some lovely photos. Well done David. I've posted a better (well less hurried anyway) edit of my entry in the "snow pictures" thread.

Happy Christmas all.

K.