Your unnatural experiments on defenseless Pentax lenses don't piss me
off. Horrify me is more like it...
However I have been thinking of getting a few "junker" K and A lenses to
reverse engineer a few K mount lenses to KA. Even if the aperture lever
isn't perfectly linear it couldn't be much worse than the exposure
results from the Vivitar series 1 70-210 "A" lens I picked up recently.
Cotty wrote:
> Thanks to all who responded so far, your comments very much appreciated.
> It's only a simple pic, but I liked the fact this guy was close to the
> warmth. It wasn't cold in there, not by a long stretch. But he obviously
> liked it er sweaty.
>
> My new year's resolution is to shoot more stills, and I do get into some
> strange places now and again, if i can show something unusual, that
> makes me happy. (If I can piss Peter Alling off that makes me happier
> still but there ya go ;-)
>
> One thing I would say is that I had forgotten how much fun rangefinders
> are. To me, totally different way of photographing. With an SLR I tend
> to stay glued to the finder, picking off as I will. With a RF, it stays
> down low, usually pre-focussed, only popping up moments before the frame
> is exposed, then swings down again, eyes scanning, anticipating the next
> shot. I appreciate some will work like this with an SLR (digital and
> film) but not with me. With the SLR, it tends to drop only an inch or
> two, eyes scanning, then pops up for some more picking off. The RF drops
> right down to waist level, almost like it's resting in camouflage. I can
> see that HCB has a lot to answer for!
>
>
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