[gofour3]

it's been so dreary.

Yeah it's been an awful week here weather wise as well. Cold and lots of snow, now it's warming up and raining, turning everything into slush.

I snuck out early New Years Day when it was sunny out and finished the roll in one outing. Wanted to test out my new MZ-S for the first time.

Phil.

[jschoonj]

Kodak Portra 800 | SMC Pentax Limited 43mm f/1.9 | Pentax LX

[Eyewanders]

Yeah it's been an awful week here weather wise as well. Cold and lots of snow, now it's warming up and raining, turning everything into slush.

I snuck out early New Years Day when it was sunny out and finished the roll in one outing. Wanted to test out my new MZ-S for the first time.

Phil.

Oooh very nice. How you finding it? I was a bit nonplussed with mine early on (4 or so years now? yikes), but that changed drastically once I'd put a few rolls through. Genuinely think it may be the best modern (read, auto-advance, AF, etc. etc.) SLR ever made (certainly one of). I know that sentiment's been bandied about a fair bit, but I'd say I'm definitely onboard with it now.

[broken_sabre]

It'll be awhile before I'll be developing anything, but I thought I'd add a few old pictures I took. Normally I wouldn't have set foot on d***edyankee soil, but since this was bought and paid for in blood I made an exception. I don't have a film scanner so I scanned prints on a flatbed scanner, and these are the only ones that came out good enough to post (the quality of the actual prints is excellent). I reckon the quality not being good on the others was due to the fact that I was scanning prints rather than negatives, or that's my best guess anyway since the prints were excellent. I don't remember what State the monument in the first two pictures was for (been too long ago), but the last two pictures were of the Confederate lines at the time of Pickett's Charge. The camera was a Pentax K1000 and the film was Fuji (probably 400, but again too much time has passed for me to say for sure).

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[dsmithhfx]

Ricoh 35s, tmax 400

[ffking]

A couple more of the slightly grubby old slides from Sooth Africa and Namibia I was posting before Xmas - both on Provia 100 with the Z-1 at the end of last century

[gofour3]

Oooh very nice. How you finding it? I was a bit nonplussed with mine early on (4 or so years now? yikes), but that changed drastically once I'd put a few rolls through. Genuinely think it may be the best modern (read, auto-advance, AF, etc. etc.) SLR ever made (certainly one of). I know that sentiment's been bandied about a fair bit, but I'd say I'm definitely onboard with it now.

First reaction is the MZ-S is pretty good. Don't have a hard copy of the manual, so I have to read up on the pdf copy some more to discover all of it's features. (I usually like to carry the manual around for the first few outings to try new stuff out) Just shot the first roll with aperture priority and manual focus to make things simple. Most of my lenses are MF, so will just shoot that way for all lenses.

Phil.

[jschoonj]

First reaction is the MZ-S is pretty good. Don't have a hard copy of the manual, so I have to read up on the pdf copy some more to discover all of it's features. (I usually like to carry the manual around for the first few outings to try new stuff out) Just shot the first roll with aperture priority and manual focus to make things simple. Most of my lenses are MF, so will just shoot that way for all lenses.

Phil.

I also recently got an MZ-S. It's my favorite analog autofocus body I've ever used.
Compact enough to easily fit inside my 5L sling alongside a manual body + lens, and still packed with very advanced features.

Kodak Portra 800 | SMC Pentax Limited 43mm f/1.9 | Pentax LX

[BigMackCam]

Very cool!
That first photo looks like a 2007 Maclaren MP4-22, but without many of the various winglets that ended up on it?

Thank you

I believe - though I could be wrong - it's the MP4/23 in which he won the 2008 season. Either way, yes - it's missing a number of winglets...

[Michail_P]

A couple more of the slightly grubby old slodes from Sooth Africa and Namibia I was posting before Xmas - both on Provia 100 with the Z-1 at the end of last century

Great shots! The zoning lines of the first and the color of the second, to be specific.

[arnold]

A couple more of the slightly grubby old slodes from Sooth Africa and Namibia I was posting before Xmas - both on Provia 100 with the Z-1 at the end of last century

Love that top picture with six rows of mountain ranges. My very early childhood was a Thabazimbi In South Africa and I used to stare out at similar ranges noticing how the colours varied from purple to mauve. This gave an incredible sense of distance.

[ffking]

Great shots! The zoning lines of the first and the color of the second, to be specific.

Thanks - yeah - there's some great scenery down there, and the old fiji slide films gave beautiful colours

Love that top picture with six rows of mountain ranges. My very early childhood was a Thabazimbi In South Africa and I used to stare out at similar ranges noticing how the colours varied from purple to mauve. This gave an incredible sense of distance.

I absolutely love the hills and mountains in that soft dusty light - so many happy memories of the few years I lived there myself (in my late 30's and early forties - thanks for sharing

[nickthetasmaniac]

Tasmanian Waratah (Telopea truncata) | Cradle Valley

Pentax KX, SMC-K 135/f2.5 and Portra400

[jschoonj]

Tasmanian Waratah (Telopea truncata) | Cradle Valley

Pentax KX, SMC-K 135/f2.5 and Portra400

You're getting some lovely colors with that combo!

[dsmithhfx]