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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
12-09-2013, 03:36 AM
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This is my contest entry. My little *istDS surprised me, even at 18mm, with a relatively crisp shot, except for the girl, of course. ISO was 800 on this, about the best one can do with this particular sensor, but I've always been pleased with its low light performance at 800.
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
11-02-2013, 02:31 AM
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Thank you all for the warm welcome here.
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
10-30-2013, 09:06 PM
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
10-28-2013, 02:33 AM
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Well, it's about time I joined. I've owned many a Pentax and, in fact, it was my first SLR back in 1973. Right now my main squeeze for film shooting is my K1000SE with the SMC Pentax-A 35-105mm f3.5 on it. I love that combo with Portra 400 film. The K1000SE/K1000 is not for everyone, I know. Oddly enough, my favorite thing about the K1000 is the tremendous PLANK! noise that the shutter and mirror make when I shoot. I know all about mirror slap and what it can cause but the size and shape of this camera is perfect for my hand. Just perfect. So I can easily hold the camera nice and still with the zoom at 35mm and f3.5 with the shutter speed at 1/15. This is a big advantage for me with my liking for low light shots. I push the Portra to 800 and it works out so well.
I have had both an SP and SPII Spotmatics, an ME Super, and a (digital) *istDS. I have both Minolta and Nikon manual film systems, too. But this combo really does it for me. I had the K1000 SE repaired (shutter speeds off) and given an CLA so it is working like a Swiss watch now--except for the broken meter, which was unfixable. I shoot strictly sunny 16. I will get around to doing a review on it, but cameras are such personal things. This camera I would rate a solid 9. No self-timer and a long trail of other K1000SE's with broken meters keep me from rating it a 10. But, in a way, I am thankful for the meter problems because it has forced me to learn to shoot without one. I have one of the brown ones made in Japan early on, it's a ruggedly handsome camera.
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