Welcome to the list. I'm a fan of the old SMC Taks as well, although I rarely use them these days. Very nice photo. I'll look forward to seeing more of your work. Paul Stenquist On Jul 11, 2006, at 4:08 AM, jim kerslake wrote:
> Just saying Hi, from Yorkshire UK. > Thought I might join your rather prolific list for so long as my > mailbox can > stand it. > > I have been taking photos for a couple of months - no idea what > brought it > on. Some kind of madness. > > I mostly enjoy using my father's old Pentax Spotmatic F with a broken > lightmeter. > I have another Spotmatic (not F) which actually works, but I really > don't > enjoy fiddling about with that black metering switch on the side. > > I did buy myself a digital SLR recently - > (not a Pentax - sorry - I wanted anti-shake in the body at a time when > Konica-Minolta was the obvious and very affordable choice), > but I dunno - I'm more of a film type I think. > I only really enjoy using the D-SLR when I stick old M42 Asahi > Super Multi > Coated Takumar lenses onto it. > So I consider the results of that to be at least half-Pentax. > > I am obsessed with old Takumar lenses, since they seem to have magical > qualities of sharpness mixed with smoothness that I can't get any > other way. > They almost seem to "melt" things, like the brickwork here: > http://www.jimkerslake.uklinux.net/pentax/oiljug.jpg > > So - well - Hi then :-) > > -- jim > > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. > It has removed 7480 spam emails to date. > Paying users do not have this message in their emails. > Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
