[arnold]

Very happy with sharpness of the lens and the colors it produces on the Fuji film.

The Spot | Exakta Exa | Carl Zeiss Jena 50mm F2.8 | Fujicolor 200

Nice work with that old camera, and kudus for shooting without a light meter. Gee, and no auto focus either. Those four element Tessar designs found on many other good cameras, such as the Color Skopar and Xenar versions are a delight.

[pentaxpete]

I thought the Christmas Lights in our shopping Mall here in Brentwood ( England) looked like 'PLANETS' ----
Spotmatic F + 50mm f1.4 SMC Takumar 2001 outdated Fujicolor Press 800 rated at 200 ASA, I used a 'Starfractor' filter too

[bucfan1234]

They do look like planets!

[bucfan1234]

Nice work with that old camera, and kudus for shooting without a light meter. Gee, and no auto focus either. Those four element Tessar designs found on many other good cameras, such as the Color Skopar and Xenar versions are a delight.

Thank you! and thanks for fueling my camera buying addiction with the recommendations on this and the travel camera thread.

While I am at it, here is another recent shot. Fuji Superia 800 pushed to 1600 and processed at home. I was a bit surprised that Superia 800 is quite grainy when pushed, but still I was happy with the results on this roll which were mostly snapshots from Christmas morning. I think this particular photo was shot at F5.6, 1/60. It was overcast and raining so that contributed to the desaturated look in the image, which I thinks adds to the scene.

410 | Pentax Super Program | SMC Pentax-M 50mm | Fuji Superia 800

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[Cuthbert]

Thanks. Another nice one. In what city was it taken?

That's Verona, Italy. It's a mid sized town in the North-East almost on the mountains. Mr.Shakespeare liked the town for some unknown reasons, he has never been there or anywhere outside England AFAIK.

Let's see what I also have...this is a landscape taken my trusty Leica M3, Summicron 50 mm DR and Portra160, sunny 16 rule:



Close up of the "isle of the dead", a hill covered with cypresses where the Romans built the theatre and the Austrians a castle:



Seagulls:



Nightshot of one the main street with a couple:



The ancient "house of the commons" of the Medieval era:



Long field of the main middle-age gate with a Zenit Automat and a shitty film:



Do you want more?

[bucfan1234]

Beautiful country. I've been through Verona but had no time to explore the city.

[nild]

Verona is a beautiful city – nice shots – thanks for sharing.

Random new shots from my MX:

After Oktoberfest:


K 35/2


Tokina 17/3.5


Glass concrete, steel:


M 200/4


Autumn:


K 35/2


Stage:








all M 85/2


Focus - out of focus




M 28/3.5

Happy new year!

[fuent104]

I've been testing some Velvia 100, and a new scanning facility. They sent me some incorrect files; I asked for higher resolution files than I received, so I will have to get in touch with them again. I did try processing one of the files, though.



This was taken with my Tamron 28-75 on my ZX-5N. I'm pretty sure I used a slow shutter speed (I believe it was around 1/30 second), which means I probably lost some sharpness due to camera shake. I do like the look of the film, though.

[Swift1]

I shot this in May of 2012.

Pentax PC35AF
Fujicolor 200

[Jacquot]

Great color, and composition. Very nice photograph. Lots of things to look at here, composed but not static at all.

[bucfan1234]

Nice one! I really like the look of that fujicolor 200.

[montman]

Early morning trek to a lake for sunrise shots just to hit a road closure sign in 0 degree weather. Good times. Picture of myself with Pentax LX | Pentax M 50 1.7 | Ektar 100 | Colorado

[Cuthbert]

Another pic of an Austrian fortress, Peschiera, on the water:



Taken with a K2DMD, K 50 mm 1.4 at f8, Portra160, I think about 1/250



This one has been taken with the same camera and film but with the M 35mm 2.8, I've read that it's not a good lens but it seems decent to me, unfortunately I couldn't get close to enhance the distortion because there was the channel.

[rob1234]

O/T

...the M 35mm 2.8, I've read that it's not a good lens but it seems decent to me...

I've heard this, but my testing on a K5 shows it is pretty damn good from f/4 onwards - see https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/130-lens-sample-photo-archive/226252-smc-...m-f-2-8-a.html I'll check again once I've saved up for a Sony A7!

[mattt]

This was a really tight squeeze, and if I put it in Landscape format there was clutter on the edges... anyway, I liked this except for cutting off the edges of the flanking cars, but the colour and detail are great, I love Ektar 100.