They used a Wankel rotary engine in one of the Norton motorbikes, the Commander I think :

Thanks for your time Kris - I am afraid that I have tried these steps without success![/quote]Opps I should have said between the img tags not the pop up box. You obviously got almost all the way there because you pasted the URL for Gwyn. When you click in the Image button two tags appear with img in between square brackets. Just paste the URL between the two tags.

Cheers, Kris.

What happens if you fit a katzeye screen instead?

Before Peter's sale I only had four of these lenses in my database, the cheapest went for £100, the most expensive for £120 so although Peter's did well, it wasn't that over the top. As much as I would like an A* version, I have never seen one on ebay. The M-series 3.5 is very common (I have 23 sales in my database and could have had more but got bored) and sells on average for £30. The earlier lenses have a good reputation (I have an SMC Takumar 135mm) but are less convenient to use on the K10.

Thanks for the information, I'll add it in. Not had much chance to update the thing lately, it is surprisingly time-consuming.

Best wishes, Kris.

Very useful site, thanks for the link. Luckily, he appears to be a much better photographer than website designer....

Best wishes, Kris.

I do not know anything about that particular scanner, but well scanned images can be every bit a good as a traditional print from an enlarger. The main issue is that a traditional print feels quite different from a digital print, although with a growing variety of specialist B&W papers even that is less than it used to be.

I am looking forward to getting my darkroom up and running simply because it will get me away from a computer screen

Best wishes, Kris.

People do talk about dynamic range with 35mm but I worked out how to get good exposures for slides from the ME Super just by experience. (I spent most of my film years shooting slides as I used them for lectures.) As you know, slide film is very intolerant of bad exposure, even by a single stop. I have recently been getting my head around the zone system as, of course, my Horseman has no light meter. One of the reasons I like going back to using my old film cameras is to remind myself how I used to do it. With the histogram facility on digital cameras my technique has changed, and not necessarily for the better

Best wishes, Kris.

That post was a month ago! Yes, he is indeed still in business and has just done a wonderful job servicing my ME-F and a lens. I shall be sending him my MX and one of the ME Supers when I get back from the US.

Best wishes, Kris.

EDIT: Just ordered an Interslice kit so that I can do my new SPII.

The alternative to moving the sensor is to use an old manual lens which has a small red mark on the focusing barrel which is the offset for using IR. It appears on Super Takumar, Takumar, M and A series lenses. I don't have any F/FA/FAJ lenses to check...

Best wishes, Kris.

According to Bojidar they can use the SDM lenses, so presumably also the Sigma ones.


I'm sorry to be rude but what a daft comment You don't expect an ME Super to have autofocus just because you put an autofocus lens on it so why expect the K100D to work with a third party HSM lens when it wasn't designed to use them? Part of the upgrade to the Super model was to allow them to use HSM/SDM lenses. As to upgrading the firmware, that is pretty common across the board as manufacturers rush out new models and then tweak them.

Best wishes, Kris.