It’s Alive, Master!
Told you yesterday that the Pentax MX’s light meter was acting up.
Well I opened the bottom plate this morning and poked around under it a bit.
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Small Pleasures!
Why do I like my Leica IIIa, despite all it’s shortcomings?
It feels good, makes me want to make photos and above all it’s quite compact for a pro-grade camera. Unlike my Spotmatic…
But still it’s not really pocketable, even the IIIa with the collapsible Summitar.
Anyways, I like small cameras and specially the very small ones – looking at you, XA2!
Now I know that I said that I was down to just three cameras, but sometimes you can’t just pass up on a great deal. I managed to get hold of a Pentax MX, a camera that has always intrigued me.
It’s debut was just year or two after the diminutive Olympus OM1 and I guess the guys at Pentax were challenged to trump the dimensions of the OM1. But not only the dimensions. They also tried to equal or surpass the sheer mechanical goodness of the Olympus.
Did they manage? How small did the MX turn out to be? How good is it?
I’ll try to answer there questions here.
First, let’s talk about size. I don’t have an OM1 any more so I can’t vouch for the comparision but there are pictures around that clearly show the size advantae of the MX.
I’m lagging behind!
Those last months I have been seriously lagging behind with my photography.
There’s good and bad reasons behing that. First of course my foot surgery prevented me from running about making nice pictures. But it did not prevent me from writing posts. In fact, I have never posted as much as when I was sitting idly at home.
Shoes
No words…. Continue reading Shoes
Stripes
No words… Continue reading Stripes
Look what I just got!
No words today, just a picture! Continue reading Look what I just got!
Another one bites the Dust!
I just read the sad news on Casual Photophile.
Continue reading “Another one bites the Dust!”
My Life without Facebook?
Mark Zuckerberg has got a problem.
Well, he’s got more problems those last weeks, but there’s one more that I add to his woes.
Night Shift in Colour
Well, not exactly a night shift… more one of my usual early-morning-before-work strolls.
I find these moment vey relaxing. For one thing, my mind is still fresh, uncluttered form a day’s work and troubles. I have finished emerging from early morning drowsiness during the bus ride and am receptive for the frames that appear before my eyes.
One Week with the iPhone
Thanks to fellow blogger Dan James of 35hunter fame, I committed to spending a whole week with my iPhone as my only camera.
This resulted from a nice discussion we had about this post of mine.
So it’s one week without taking up any real camera, just with that slippery slab of aluminium and glass in hand. He thinks I will come to like using it. I swear that guy will make me switch to digital 😉
A bunch of Fifties! Pixel peeping!
Having multiple cameras and camera systems brings you without fail to owning multiple lenses of the same focal length – unless you concentrate on compact cameras with fixed lenses of course.
I reduced my camera stable to Pentax M42 and Leica M39 thread mount stuff. But of course for each systems I have a selection of the compulsory 50mm lenses. Not a comprehensive collection but only four in fact I got hold of over the past months and years.
Bad News for Film….
…thanks to Fujifilm!
Agfa Vista, OK it was not the best loved and best looking film around, but it was among the cheapest to be had. And frankly, the quality was not too shabby!
Frank Lehnen Photography 