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Got my old Pentax Lens out yesterday and took these

I am delighted with it. My brother gave me this lens along with my film camera the Pentax ME Super oh about 30 years ago! (shhhh). I was lucky, he was in the Australian Navy then and was able to purchase it overseas for me.

At the time I was doing an Arts course and one of the subjects was Photography. Then, as I got older  (Overseas travel, kids etc) got in the way of taking ‘proper’ shots. First I went to a compact film camera or two and finally about 8 years ago I bought my first digital camera. It was a compact and was a Canon Powershot A something or other. Cost me a whack for those 2.1 megapixels too – over $700 Aus Dollars!!!

I still use that camera once in a while although, compared to today’s standards, it isn’t very compact at all.

Finally, I bought my Pentax Digital SLR and one of the main reasons I went Pentax was so I could use my old lenses. But just yesterday, I really TRIED to use them. And I was really HAPPY with the results….

This Pentax M 50mm 1.7 Asahi is apparently a sought after portraiture lens and there it was just sitting in my old camera bag – for years. The only ‘problem’ with these types of lenses is that they are fully manual. No auto focus, no auto aperture setting no nothing. And gosh, when I used it yesterday, I felt like I was ‘home’. I loved the feeling of physically ‘stopping’ down (or up) the aperture. It just felt that I was more in control.

In all the shots below, I have used some of Sheye Rosemeyer’s Eye Candy Actions – mostly Honeychild and Pale and Interesting. (they are the name of the actual photoshop ‘actions’) In all of them, I have tweaked the action to suit what I wanted….

Anyway – here are some shots I took of my eldest son. I realised that I haven’t shared many photos of him here because…

1. He is often out when I have the camera clicking away

2. When I do get to take his photo, he doesn’t like the shot

3. He is a teenager!