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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
05-08-2017, 02:12 AM
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This is the world's first major cast iron bridge.
Over the River Severn, near Telford in Shropshire, the area of the Ironbridge Gorge is now a World Heritage site
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
11-16-2016, 03:18 PM
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
10-08-2016, 09:31 AM
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This is the Bradford-on-Avon Wharf on the Kennet and Avon Canal in Wiltshire.
Built about 1803. it's unique feature is than the lock terminates under a road bridge.
Although the canal gave access to both London and Bristol, the bulk of the traffic was coal from the Somerset coalfield,
Commercial use ended in the 1840s with the coming of the railways.
It is now a key tourist attraction in Wiltshire.
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
05-19-2016, 06:30 AM
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Result from a Camera Club members evening.
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
03-11-2016, 02:53 PM
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This is one of those "I wish I had made that" images. No obvious pattern, just an eye for what works.
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
03-07-2016, 03:34 PM
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Got this at a Camera Club studio evening.
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
02-25-2016, 10:34 AM
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For me, #4.
I could happily have this on my wall.
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
10-03-2015, 08:41 AM
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My wife has nursed this orchid through seven months of constant bloom. This is the best it has ever been.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
08-14-2015, 02:08 PM
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So what is the problem with DX coding?
OK, if you are going to shoot monochrome, and use some arcane processing ritual (sacrifice a chicken at midnight, maybe) then DX coding can get in the way.
Otherwise, what is the point. I do have exposure compensation on the P50 if I think I need it.
If I wanted monochrome, I could (still can) scan a print, and turn it into mono in Photoshop. With digital, almost every shot gets turned into mono just to get an idea, and then worked on if it warrants the effort.
This is an approach that has worked well for me - your gas mileage may vary.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
08-13-2015, 02:01 PM
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That is a way of looking at it that I had never considered.
Until I went digital, my SOP was 400ASA Fuji, aperture priority, and use the aperture to control the depth of field.
If it was tricky stuff - like the inside of a piece of swarf treatment plant - when I wanted detail on the wear on some conveyor chain and sprockets - then the few seconds needed to fiddle with the settings were OK. I don't think I ever carried a manual with me. When I moved onto digital, the K100D/200D and the P50.17mm Tamron went into a small "carry everywhere" bag. Then the DSLR and a couple of lenses went into a sling bag when the MS started to bite. Now, the X-5 is about as much as I can carry.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
08-12-2015, 10:07 AM
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Found this thread when browsing, and saw the statement taken from the mosphoto data:
MZ-30, ZX-30, MZ-50, and ZX-50 bodies can't use AF, M, and K lenses (shutter won't fire)
This is wrong, like just plain wrong! Well, some of it, at least.
Yes, I have am MZ-50 with a 28-80 FA lens on it and (trust me on this) the shutter will fire (and everything else works as well.
A few years back I shot my youngest daughter's wedding with it (standing beside the pro with his Swedish 6x6). Guess whose shots turned out better?
Having said that, I have am M50-1.4, and if I fit that on the MZ50 then the shutter certainly will not fire.
OK, the P3 is a cute little camera, but why is is that there is no support for the P5/P50?
I had a P3, still have a P50.
For some years it sat on a handy shelf in my office with a Tamron A-2 17mm fitted. With that combination you know most everything will be in focus, and it will be in the frame no matter how close you are.
All the same functionality as the P3, and to my taste it is just a tad better looking.
So now, getting too aged and infirm to lug a load of kit around, do I part with the P50, or the MZ50? One gives me a better range of primes, and the other gives me autofocus. And really, the little X-5 seems just as much use, thanks to the flip-out screen which I can use sitting down.
Decisions, decisions ...
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
06-06-2015, 09:14 AM
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In my kit there is a Tamron Adaptall-2 28mm f2.5.
On it is a Canon wide angle clamp-on lenshood (W-62)
The Tamron give a 42 mm equivalent, and the clamp-screw of the hood makes a very effective focusing lever.
The combination does not attract too much attention but the speed of focusing is as quick as some autofocus systems.
Geoff
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Forum: Visitors' Center
06-06-2015, 08:41 AM
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Get a K-to-M42 adapter. Maybe you can use the one that did the thread stripping.
Find a good machinist who can put the adapter in a lathe, center it very carefully, and skim the threads out until the damaged lens thread will just - I mean JUST - slide inside.
Glue the adapter on with an epoxy resin (Araldite is my favourite).
Be very careful that the lens is correctly oriented in the adapter when the adapter is in the camera body.
Now wait for the epoxy to set.
Then give it another 24 hours to get really hard.
Job done!
Geoff
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
05-24-2015, 09:38 AM
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So I'm a retired psychologist.
Just as I retired I got MS and this developed rapidly. Now, while I can handle a DSLR, I cannot carry all the lenses that I would like (or even any of them).
Looks like the K20D will have to be replaced by a bridge model. This now has to have a flip-out monitor (cannot crouch down behind the tripod any more) so an X-5 is on the cards.
Just when I had a kit that would go most anywhere and shoot most anything ...
Still, some of the short lenses will go just fine on my MZ50, and I can see more film being shot.
Geoff
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