Thanks to everyone for the welcome :-) And for comments on the photo - never put one up for comment before, but it is really instructive to hear it through someone else's eyes (um - or whatever - you know what I mean!)
Just a few quick replies: From: "Joe Strain" > I have a small stable of Pentax lenses and they are > not described as "old" they are "classic" Ah - great - I wonder - can I apply the same terminology to myself..? I'm feeling more classic by the day... You must have a lot, if they fill a small stable though ;-) > I prefer my Sekonic > L-28C incident light meter. looks good - and not too expensive? I have a truly 'classic' Leningrad 4 - which has the advantage that when I stare at it, everybody assumes that I'm making a phone call :-) > Tell me, does Yorkshire have PUBS older then the US? Almost everything in Yorkshire is older than the US ;-) From: "Boris Liberman" > If you use M42 glass, you could buy yourself a "proper" DSLR, and be > full-Pentax ;-). I'll save pennies and see what they're coming out with next... From: "Cotty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Just saying Hi, from Yorkshire UK. > > [snip]. > > Yo. > > Cotty in the sarf of England mate innit. Now then - think on lad... > I do similar nutty things: > > <http://www.cottysnaps.com/snaps/mods/eoskmount.html> LOL - love the meat cleaver... does that come as standard with the Canon DSLR kit these days? So many potential uses... From: "Jostein Øksne" > Regarding your shot and the observation of smoothness, I assume you > mean the out of focus areas? I couldn't agree more. It has a lovely > softness about it. Maybe you are familiar with the term "bokeh"? > > From past discussions on this forum I've learned that this particular > trade-off between sharpness and bokeh is indeed one of the design > characteristics of Pentax and Takumars. It's incredible how they do it - I sometimes find modern super-sharpness a bit "much" - do you know if the more modern Pentax lenses continue to behave like that, or did it die a death in the 70s along with the Tank Top and the Space Hopper? (does anyone outside the UK have a clue what I'm talking about?) Cheers, Jim -- ---------------------------------------- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 7547 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
