Originally posted by clickclick I see from your video you have it up for sale?
I'm hoping you're going to come back and say you've changed your mind and we'll keep seeing you around the forums.
Regardless, I'm not sure if you are aware of this from your video, but if you look at the rear small piece that comes off, it is threaded so you can screw on a 49mm filter like you'd use on the front of a normal lens. You mention inserting gelatin etc., so not sure if you saw the threaded part or not.
Do you have any other Pentax gear at this point?
It was not my intention to promote the lens for sale on this forum. I got the technical details from the forums review section but was surprised when I found the 90 degree rotation by new users can't post there. I am severely disabled, I was classified as "non-functional" (and give a green slip that entitled me to work as a car parking attendant) when I became a darkroom technician and then photojournalist for 5 years. I would not have got my first job had it not been for a Pentax ME super, I wouldn't have risen so quickly to international work from the regionals if it wasn't from the pain of the disability and fighting against it. I have a spinal injury with bone fragments welded to the cord by scar tissue as the NHS left me in 1994 for 13 months. If they'd bothered to X-ray me in August 94, and done the surgery I'd have healed, had some weak discs, but be okay. Now I walk with a stick, a wheelchair after winter and I can't go out. I can't work because of a very strict medical regime, I tired 6 months of "training" to take some photos last year and after 45 minutes lost control of a leg and shook like a leaf. Carrying on the training, I then bust a ligament in my right hand that I use for my stick and that was real bad. (Not as bad as having a stick on a wrist strap, raising a camera to one's eye and hitting oneself between the leg as the stick dangles though
I like to reminisce about Pentax and how I started. I never intended to stay in the darkroom, and though I had access to the Junk cupboard full of Nikon gear, I was building my own Pentax system, hence why I ended up with an LX (two actually one after the other, bought secondhand, loved the cameras, hated the shutter that would fail to often). A lucky purchase of a Leica and my colleagues using Nikon pushed the switch and me selling my pentax gear, with much regret. The lens is my father's, I'm selling for him. If I could think of anyway of making money out of it by using it, or could carry it without risking further prolapses, I'd keep it, and frankly when he asked me to sell it, I didn't rate it much as when I last saw it 20 years ago and it dimmed the viewfinder on film cameras, I was not impressed. But now with mirrorless and the way the LCD viewfinder brightens up as one stops down, this is now an exceptionally relevant lens. The "problem" as I see it, is a) people using zooms to 600mm and shooting open aperture so they'll not get the quality this gets when stopped down only slightly, b) Bloody mirror lenses, useless f8 things, donoughts in the background.
I've always thought Pentax got some things so correct, the lens release button on the right and the raised bump so you can change things in the dark with one's fingers near the shutter, Leica and Fuji have this (though fuji doesn't have the bump), Nikon's urgh, have to change to the left hand or push the button with one's thumb holding over the lens, and then trying to put the lens on the only way of aligning it is to look or on an old Pre-AI lens with the strange sticky out metal bit, cutting your thunk on the horseshoe.
If I could carry gear, then I would seriously consider Pentax for 85mm and above, I like an optical viewfinder under that focal length, and the pixel shift technology fascinates me (though I don't claim to understand it fully). My physical problems stem a lot from having a camera around my neck and stooping, I've tried photo jackets and have issues with the momentum as one turns, My left side is so sensitive now that I have to carry on my right and bang into my stick, I have tried peak design belt clips but something confuses my nervous system and I walk a ragged line. But I had a good five years, even if I feel that some stories were never told.
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Originally posted by Kerrowdown Aye it breaks down in the same way as yours.
So how does the aperture stop down then, if it comes apart?
Originally posted by Kerrowdown Definitely...
Nice.