Win a Pentax Limited Lens: Raffle Now Live!

Id like for people to chime in here with the gear they routinely shoot with.

I shoot with a few different cameras/formats

If i go 35mm I reach for my trusty Spotmatic F. My lenses include SMC 50/1.4, Super Tak 35/3.5, Super Tak 135/3.5, Super Tak 200/4

I do however mainly shoot medium format 6x4.5 and I with great shame admit that it ISN'T a Pentax.... Its a Bronica Etrs. Lenses are 50/2.8, 75/2.8, 100/4 macro, 150/3.5

I've recently been playing around with some box cameras and folders. I have also been growing increasingly interested in large format. Thinking of maybe pulling the trigger on a 4x5 press camera to get my feet wet. Something like a Crown Graphic or Super Speed Graphic.

Hi.

Now my most used (for travels and street photos) is the MX and M40/2.8. Mostly for it's so easy pocketable. But it also gives good photos.
2nd is my Spotmatic II with Super Takumar 50/1.4 or Chinon 28/2.8, mostly with B/W film.
My newest find the KM and K55/1.8 will surely be tested alot.

MX and M40/2.8:


KM and K55/1.8:


Spotmatic II with Chinon 28/2.8



Spotmatic II with Super Takumar 50/1.4:

Long time LX and MX, but my first Pentax was a K1000. Now I have Sa1, SV, SPII, SPF, KM, KX, K1000, MX, MEsuper, MV, MG, LX
MX K135/2.5


Been using Auto 110



Also trying some stuff with 6X7.

I agree the MX and the M40/2.8 is a beauty to hold. I should know it was my very first camera
There is just something that feels right shooting a Spotmatic and a 50/1.4. Built like a tank and delivers in spades.
That Chinon is also very nice indeed, honestly didn't expect that degree of sharpness.
Wonderful images if you don't mind me asking where are you located? The first shot looks like heaven.. thank you for sharing

Awesome the 110 looks like a sweet camera to play with
The LX and the *drool* 6x7..... NOW you are tugging at my heart strings... I've lusted after both of these cameras for quite some time now

Thanks for sharing this

Thanks!
No. 1 is shot i Jiuzhaiguo, Sichuan, China.
No. 2 is from Yuanminyuan Park in Beijing, where I live now
No. 3 is from my hometown in Sweden, Skövde
No. 4 is from a small village in Northern Sweden, Orsa (Dalarna)

BR Pär

Sweden and China both lovely countries. Beautiful scenery. Do you find the humidity in China overly problematic on your gear at all?

Thanks!

I live in Beijing, and I don't find it so humid (at least not for the 6 months I've lived there). Maybe time will tell.

BR Pär

Well thats a plus I guess. My uncle moved to China a year ago and he said the humidity in his area is horrible. He is somewhere south I think, can't remember the town/city off hand though.

In Beijing the winter is cold, spring it's sandstorms, summer is hot and somewhat humid (not as bad as in southern parts of China), autumn it's windy but not as much sand as in the spring.

As for for my slr I use a Minolta X-700 with a 50mm F1.4 and a 135mm F4.
(Also have a Lomo Fisheye2)

Cheers!

My usual film camera is my old ME Super with an M50 1.7

But I'm really looking for a decent deal on a portable MF camera. I have bought and sold several MF cameras this year, including a couple of TLR and a Mamiya RZ67 and have yet to find one that feels just right.

I recently picked up a Minolta X-700 quite a nice shooter. The shutter has a very pleasing "manual" camera sound.

I as well really enjoy the pentax 50/1.7. I have two copies. One attached to my MX the other to my K20D quite often. Wonderfully dreamy bokeh.

My usual 35mm cameras are my MZ-S or my SV both very different but equally enjoyable.For the SV I have a few M42 lenses but the one that is mostly on it is the 55mm f1.8 Super Tak that it came with, the MZ-S on the other hand wears various lenses from my burgeoning K mount collection.
My 645 comes out for an airing mostly for landscapes or architecture, my two favourite lenses for it are my 55mm and 75mm.
But when I'm feeling nostalgic my Minolta SRTs come out of mothballs. My 1st SLR was my 2nd hand SRT Super, it still works and meters perfectly,and when its coupled to its old friend, Rokkor 58mm f1.4 its a perfect pairing if a little heavy. The SRT 303b usually comes for the ride but it isn't quite the same.
Glenn

Hello!
My 35mm rig is a Pentax Spotmatic II, silver body, with theSuper-Takumar lenses below.
I’ve been happily using this model since the late 70’s. Thisparticular body had the photo cells, light seals and mirror bumper replaced in2009 by Eric Hendrickson. He does great work!
The lenses I use most are the 35mm and 50mm.
Also have the extension tube set and a reverse-mount adapterring for macros.

24mm f/3.5
28mm f/3.5
35mm f/3.5
50mm f/1.4
55mm f/2
85mm f/1.9
105mm f/2.8
135mm f/3.5
200mm f/4

My other film rig is a recently acquired Mamiya 6 with3 lenses.

Nice collection of lenses. I'd love to get my hands on an 85/1.9
I just got a Pentax 6x7 with a 105/2.4 yesterday.... I can feel the LBA coming on