I got my first SLR, an Asahi Pentax back in 1969 and they had been around for awhile then.
-----Original Message----- >From: "Daniel J. Matyola" <danmaty...@gmail.com> >Subject: Re: My first roll of film in a Pentax in decades > >Interesting. When I had my Pentax 6X7, the image quality was outstanding. >Mostly, however, I made contacts and then had enlargement printed. I had >only 2 lenses for it, both primes. > >Did you really mean to say you had been using DSLR cameras for 45 years? I >didn't think they have been around that long. > > >Dan Matyola >http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > >On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 9:15 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > >> Last year I was given a Pentax 67, it took me until a couple weeks ago to >> finish the first roll of Porta 400. Unfortunately, when Bay scanned it, >> they scanned it square, so I need to bring it in for rescanning. >> >> Here are the photos with the horizon straightened, color balance and >> exposure tweaked. They seem to be scanned at about 200dpi which may be >> higher resolution than the grain at about 30MP. >> >> Photographing with this camera doesn't have the comfortable flow of using >> the 35mm DSLR that I've had for 45 years. The general image quality seems >> to be a bit lower than that of an APS DSLR, except maybe in really bright >> light. I've got a second roll of film that I'll try to shoot a lot more >> promptly, but at the very least, using this is really making me appreciate >> my K-1. >> >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72157699216746255 >> >> -- >> Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://red4est.com/lrc >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/collections/72157612824732477/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
