Looks good, Dave. Congrats on the new lens. Cheers, Christine
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Savage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 2:21 AM Subject: A tale to share > G'day All, > > I had a mission today. Buy some stop bath for film processing. I know > I don't really need it, but we are water poor here, so in an attempt > to help save water I wanted stop bath. > > There aren't many places around town that sell B&W chemistry these > days, so I had to drive into the city (I hate having to do that). I > went to a place I've known about for ages but had never been too. They > didn't have any. So I stocked up on other chemistry while I was there: > > <http://www.arach.net.au/~savage/Misc/Images/K20D/Story/_IGP2991.jpg> > > Luckily just around the corner is another place that usually has a > good range of papers & chemicals. There I found what I wanted: > > <http://www.arach.net.au/~savage/Misc/Images/K20D/Story/_IGP2988.jpg> > > Now some may be asking why the interest in film? I just feel like a > change. And I need to refresh my memory. Also my father has expressed > an interest in processing his own B&W. > > Now while I was at this second store I had a good look around at the > bags & tripods, & drooled over the Leica M8, Leica M7, Voigtlander > Bessa 2A/3A, Hasselblad H2, Hasselblad X-Pan, Linhof 617 etc, etc, > etc. > > In the corner, to my surprise, was a decent selection of Pentax kit. > K20D, K200D, FA 50mm, DA* 16-50mm, DA* 50-135mm, DA 21mm, DA 40mm & DA > 70mm. Uh oh, I was in trouble: > > <http://www.arach.net.au/~savage/Misc/Images/K20D/Story/_IGP2990.jpg> > > Last one in stock, demo copy (yay for discount :-). I had been > resisting this lens for some time due to the smallish max. aperture (I > shoot quite a bit of hand held low light stuff) but today my > resistance was low. > > Anyway I got it home & fired off a few test shots at the first things > I passed and the way from the car to the house: > > <http://www.arach.net.au/~savage/Misc/Images/K20D/Story/_IGP2974.jpg> > <http://www.arach.net.au/~savage/Misc/Images/K20D/Story/_IGP2977.jpg> > > And something I probably shouldn't have shot, lest I void the warranty: > > <http://www.arach.net.au/~savage/Misc/Images/K20D/Story/_IGP2986.jpg> > > :-) > > Cheers & have a good weekend. > > Dave > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
