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Thank you so much for posting this. I learnt a lot ! I'd have included an Espio or two (I found the Mini very useful when backpacking) and had less on the endless post DS2 digital cameras, but that's a comment not a criticism.

Forum: Monthly Photo Contests 02-08-2022, 03:07 AM

2021
Posted By john clark

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Views: 91

The barn is part of a bigger country estate which is fully functional. The wood is left for the snowdrops (which are just coming again).

Forum: Monthly Photo Contests 01-05-2022, 01:49 AM

2021
Posted By john clark

Replies: 4
Views: 91

Hope in the early spring. Aperture and speed are guesses. Ektachrome 100.

Forum: Monthly Photo Contests 12-02-2021, 08:48 AM

seasons
Posted By john clark

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Views: 69

A walk on 24th December 2006 Dedham Vale near near Flatford Mill in Constable country (Essex, UK)

Forum: Monthly Photo Contests 11-09-2021, 01:17 AM

People (two or more)
Posted By john clark

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Views: 185

Aperture ad speed are guesses.

Forum: Monthly Photo Contests 11-09-2021, 12:18 AM

Winter Monochrome
Posted By john clark

Replies: 7
Views: 147

I would like to nominate this photo

Forum: Monthly Photo Contests 11-09-2021, 12:17 AM

Grey Crowned Crane
Posted By john clark

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Views: 288

I would like to nominate this photo

Forum: General Photography 09-28-2021, 08:29 AM

How did you become a Pentaxian ?
Posted By john clark

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Views: 11,246

I has various 120 and 127 cameras in my youth and when I married Judy she had an Instamatic which did us very well for many years. My sister was very keen on her Olympus Trip so we bought one, and when that failed just ahead of a holiday to Venice I bought an Olympus XA2 in a rush. Excellent pocketable camera. I bought my son a Ricoh Singlex TLS in about 1984. In 1986 a colleague said how pleased she was with an ME Super and it was all downhill from there, although I stopped buying Pentax at the K7. When money permitted I bought an MX, a Z1-p, an MZ5n, an SFXn, and LX, a Spotmatic and an F, an ESII and a 110 Super. I forget how many lenses I have - mostly Pentax - and a few flashes.

I also bought an ist DS new and then the El 100 and E1 200. The 100s were cheap and easy to find so I have some to my grandchildren. They seem to have disappeared now !

have been using film during the pandemic which has led to a rash of CLAs ! I'm afraid on a day to basis I use a Sony HX90V - pocketable, great zoom and good pictures - and easy to recharge. Some time in the 1990s I discovered my brother had been collecting Canons of all varieties.

Somehow Pentax feels friendly and of course technically good, especially the prime lenses in M42 and bayonet.

Forum: Monthly Photo Contests 06-06-2021, 11:48 PM

old house
Posted By john clark

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Taken with Fuji Sensia slide film ASA 100. Shutter and aperture are guesses.

Forum: Monthly Photo Contests 05-04-2021, 12:31 AM

poppies in Suffolk 2020
Posted By john clark

Replies: 4
Views: 135

Ektachrome 100. Shutter and aperture an educated guess.

Forum: Monthly Photo Contests 03-16-2021, 01:55 AM

portraits
Posted By john clark

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Views: 232

my mother in Ely UK 2002 taken with Fujichrome 400; speed an aperture a guess.

Forum: Pentax Full Frame 10-21-2011, 12:26 AM

Pentax Full Frame - An official statement from Pentax (they listened!)
Posted By john clark

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Views: 375,230

I have a lot of film cameras which I still use alongside my K7.
What I want is digital cartridge that I can put into my film cameras. With a 35mm area and rechargeable power and a mini SD memory slot in the cylinders at each end, and a mini USB connector I can then use all those bodies digitally.
If Pentax created one of these I would pay perhaps £200 ($300 US) for one.
These could be upgraded over time.

Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras 02-27-2011, 08:22 AM

MEF & 35-70 f2.8: good deal?
Posted By john clark

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Views: 3,413

If it works it is a well specified camera and lens, although the autofocus is pretty much useless ! The lens is also very heavy. The batteries are standard - 4 AAA in the lens + 4 SR44 in the body- with lots of switches on the lens and the body. You need a manual. http://www.pentaximaging.com/files/manual/MEF.pdf is free. The lens may only be 35-70 but it is constant aperture whatever the zoom setting and f.2.8 is good for even a narrow range zoom. This was the only lens made for the MEF but other PK lenses will fit with manual (but assisted) focussing. You can use ASA100 film and get good colours I found. Good luck.

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