I never did sell this. Any offers? It is a bit dusty now, still completely unused.

Film and lens turned-up safely this morning, many thanks. Lens looks like it'll be great on my Super A.

I hadn't realised quite what a variety pack the film would be! Eight rolls of BW film, eight different emulsions! I'll enjoy working through that lot. Between (a) my existing stash (b) my two lots of prizes (c) my Analogue Wonderland "wonderboxes" and now (d) this lot, my film stash is getting out of hand.

Best wishes, Kris.

I suspect that some corrosion or gunk has got into the switch. Perhaps its time to send it off for a CLA?

The video is interesting but the early section on Takumars has a number of errors. Much better once he gets on to the K mount lenses.

Not quite true. I just hit the "go to the beginning" button and (a) it says page 40 whereas it must be many more than that and (b) the links to the photos are all broken, you just get tiny thumbnails. I have scrolled through the many images to see when the links start working again.

K.

PS I'm not sure if it still works, but they did have a "import all your photos from Flickr" feature back in 2013 when lots of people were looking to jump ship (including me). I've been with them ever since and am very happy with it.

Ipernity: £37.95 a year.

I bought a 3 1/2 year subscription up to November 2023 for £113.70.

If you want lots of engagement, being "explored" and all that, then Ipernity is very quiet. If you want somewhere easy to store and repost photos, it works very well.

K.

I must admit I rarely look at the main gallery, and rarely post there. Even when I do, I don't remember to check if anyone has commented. I look at images in the images thread, but not the gallery as I rarely go to the main page. For the same reason, I rarely see the the picture of the week. (It is a shame there isn't a gallery of pictures of the week so we can look back over all the ones selected.) My browser has a window open on the fora. I post pictures in so many places that I don't really think about the main gallery here. To give you some idea...

Main gallery here: 132 images over 13 years,

Ipernity. My main image hosting site mainly used to post things to other sites such as here (i.e., as most people use Flickr). A real mixture as I use it for any image I want to post elsewhere, not necessarily a good image. (4697 images).

Instagram. Largely photos I like, rarely a more "social media" type image (857 images).

krislockyearphotography.foliopic.com This is supposed to be the showcase of my better images but I don't update it as often as I ought. (194 out of a possible maximum of 500).

US fora. Much like here, images are posted in threads and not in a gallery. I post there a great deal more than here because (a) I like to do the "Single in [enter a month]" challenge where I try to take and post one photo a day with a lens of the month. September was the K35/2, last month the K150/4, this month the F35-70. Also, I can post any of my film images (pinholes, folders, TLRs...) and there are endless light-hearted posting threads (the alphabet game, show your pets etc.). I have no idea how many images are posted there (just as here in the image threads and the gear threads). There are a small number of bad images in the gallery I'd like to delete if I can find out how. All the images are hosted on Ipernity. (One reason for this is that if I decide to take down an image for any reason, I can delete it from Ipernity and it will no longer show on most of the other platforms.)

Other places: a few on the Lomography site, some on the Manual Focus Lenses site, and a few on the Soviet Cameras site (although I haven't been there in an age as they were more interested in collecting cameras with minor differences than taking photos with them).

For the main gallery to have some relevance, it needs to be better integrated with the main forum rather than off on its own. In general, this forum appears to have got quieter and quieter over the years. I see the same couple of dozen people posting regularly, but it doesn't seem nearly as busy as it was when I joined. When did hefty last post, for example? A bit of a revamp would be nice too (although not a Flickresque ungodly mess, please) . For example, the image size worked well when I joined in 2007, but now looks much too small.

Best wishes, Kris.

They had to make enough to cover the free postage...

Nice!