I have a small stable of Pentax lenses and they are not described as "old" they are "classic"
My spotties's meters WORK and I prefer my Sekonic L-28C incident light meter. Yeah, I DO use the Pentax spotmeter for casual work, but My Sekonic has save me' arse too many times to disregard. besides, it needS NO BATTERIES! Tell me, does Yorkshire have PUBS older then the US? One of my friends is a Yorkshireman who rubbed that salt in my wounds once when I served him barbequed roast TURKEY...He and his family stripped it to the carcass. Best regards! Yodar in orlando > 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'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 > Yodar Words MEAN things. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
