I've gone digital. Read more about my new Fujifilm MX-1200 digital still image camera here!
Here you can see which cameras I use and which I have used to take the pictures you
can see on my gallery page.
I've gone digital. Read more about my new Fujifilm MX-1200 digital still image camera here!
The Pentax ME-super was my first SLR (single lens reflex) camera. I got it as a present from my parents
in 198? and I really took a lot of photos with it. Actually by now I have two identical
bodies to use with different kinds of film material. Both cameras have undergone a general inspection and recalibration
at Pentax in Germany in the mid-90s and still make brilliant pictures despite of their age.
The ME-super is a system camera for Pentax-K bajonet lenses. It has a time automatic
from 1/2000s up to 4s exposure time with manual override. Without batteries inserted you can still
take pictures with a fixed 1/120s exposure time!
Some years ago I was looking for a good Pentx-K bajonet wide angle zoom lens,
because my second-hand cheap 28mm lens wasn't reliable any longer. In a photo shop in
Hamburg/Germany I found the objective I was looking for, but it was only sold together
with the P30T body for a very reasonable price.
The P30T is a bit more advanced than the ME-super. It has automatic time and aperture settings
with manual override, but the time scale does not cover the full range of the ME-super (1/1000s-1s).
I'm sometimes missing the manual film speed setting of the ME-super (the P30T reads DX coded films)
especially when it comes to difficult light situations.
Two additional features compared to the ME-super are the depth-of-field control and
the possibility of setting the exposure parameters for another direction than the actual
photo under difficult light ambients.
Different motives and situations require different lenses.
My collection of Pentax-K lenses consists of the following:
Additional parts of my equipment are:
The Seagull-4A is a precise copy of the legendary Rollei Cord II two
eyed 6-by-6cm camera (TLR - twin lens reflex), build in Germany in the late 1930s. This
one was build 1987 in Shanghai.
As you might expect, this camera has no automatic at all. Everything is manual so you have full control over what
happens. The shutter is adjustable from 1/300s up to 1s while the aperture goes from 3.5 to 22. The camera is
equipped with two viewfinder systems: an opaque glas plate with a magnifier and a lens-less "sport view finder".
As a small snapshot camera I just recently bought this PC330.
As nobody can convince me of trying a film format with smaller negatives than the 135-format (24mm x 36mm),
I'll never buy an APS camera! While APS cameras became smaller and cheaper within
the last years, 135-format cameras where either expensive or unreasonably bigger than APS ones. Now
I found this camera of my favourite manufacturer in a media store in Stockholm as a special offer, so I decided
to spend the equivalent of about 25€ on this camera.
The PC330 is only a snapshot camera. I didn't even have the oppotunity to see my first pictures taken with this camera yet.
It has a fixed focus lens with an aperture of 3.5 and the depth of field is given
as 1m - infinity. The shutter speed is given as 1/100s so I wonder how the camera actually deals
with different film speeds. It can be used with DX coded films from 100ASA-400ASA.
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