For my birthday, I bought myself a nice Pentax ME, SE version from KEH. I had one a few years ago and it broke when it fell from the back of my Ford Escape onto cold hard, asphalt. I have always like the compactness of the ME, the nice viewfinder, and the simplicity of operation. In short, a great camera for street shooting, and most everything else. Even though most of my gear is Nikon-oriented, I have a soft spot for the Pentax ME. I also ended up buying a nice 28-80 Pentax zoom. I had one of those about 13 years ago, but got rid of it when I sold a bunch of gear to switch over to Nikon.
I loaded b&w film and have been shooting with it for about 2 weeks, and finally have developed the rolls. One roll has some fogging issues that happened perhaps while doing the bulk rolling, or perhaps via the cassette, as the camera has good light seals. The other roll I exposed at 400 ISO, thinking I had put that speed film into it, only to realize afterwards that it was ISO 125 film. See, even after doing this for years, I can still screw up.However, at least a few of the images were happy accidents, with the more contrasty image looking somewhat like moonlight at the observatory.
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| Abandoned observatory..shot at ISO 400! |
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| Jenny, also at 400. |
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| chair, Michigan Union |
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| Ann Arbor Parking Structure |
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| Argus C-4 with 300mm lens. |
The next roll IS a 400 ISO film, and I will shoot it today and hopefully , all will be fine.
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