Hi everybody, I'm back home after a two-days-and-a-half weekend spent in the island of Procida, the smallest and the less known of the islands near Naples.
I took with me an LX and the MX, in which I had decided to mount the SC-21 screen (from the LX) to have a bit of brightness more. Lenses chosen were the usual KM 50/1.4 and 1.7, the K 24/2.8, the KM 20/4 (used very little, but it's so small I can carry it everywhere) and my new Vivitar 100/2.5 macro. I still had few rolls of Kodachrome 64, so I shot three of them, plus a roll of Reala in the MX. Probably for the first time in eight years I haven't shot a single B&W frame... I feel a bit guilty... The wheater was beautiful, only a bit too chilly and windy even for November (in fact I got a heavy cold...). The best part of the weekend is that I was able not to bother my girlfriend to death as usual with my photographic frenzy... The equipment performed well, as ever, apart for the usual strange behaviour of that particular LX coupled with my older AF280T: the flash refused regularly to fire, so I forgot about it. The first field impressions of the Vivitar Series 1 macro are nice. I don't like the clockwise focusing ring, but I can get accustomed to it. It's a heavy and solid-feeling lens, and I hope it performs as I imagine. Strangely, I didn't take more than a couple of macro, or better bare close-up, shots. Not too strange I guess, because I wanted to check the lens performance at normal more than macro distance, but I felt I could have made the same shots with my KM 100/2.8, saving a lot of space and weight. We'll see. I hope to have the Kodachromes back before the next submission deadline. Anyway, it's nice to be back and have tons of messages to read... Ciao, Gianfranco Buy the perfect holiday gifts at Yahoo! Shopping. http://shopping.yahoo.com - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
