My lazy day
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@aqua-letifer said in My lazy day:
@mik said in My lazy day:
I used to be quite good in the days of film. Even had a darkroom.
My father set up an ad-hoc darkroom in the master bath. This is in the mid 1960s. He taught me all kinds of stuff about developing your own film. He had a 2 ¼ Hasselblad and a 2 ¼ Rolleiflex, irrc. It looked something like this:
When I went to Europe, I shot (I think) Kodachrome slide film on my Pentax 125 camera (no flash, no auto-focus, no light meter). I remember processing those rolls and rolls of film in that bathroom.
Still have the slides.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Rolliflexes are bad ass.
@george-k said in My lazy day:
Still have the slides.
Dude! Share 'em, that'd be awesome!
Please love yourself.
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Wow, those are great. Where were those taken? (And what camera?)
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@aqua-letifer said in My lazy day:
It's all about training your eyes to see. That sounds kinda "woo," but that's literally what it is.
This is so true. I have a friend who I think is quite a good photographer. He has the "eye". We can be together in the same place, but his pictures turn out so much better than mine, not because of Photoshop, or finishing, etc. He "sees" what makes a good picture. Doesn't really know he is doing it - seems somewhat natural for him.
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@aqua-letifer said in My lazy day:
Wow, those are great. Where were those taken? (And what camera?)
Mayrhofen Austria, July 1967.
I believe it was this camera (or something very similar to it):
Mine was not an "Asahi" Pentax, but just a "regular" Pentax.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@george-k said in My lazy day:
@aqua-letifer said in My lazy day:
Wow, those are great. Where were those taken? (And what camera?)
Mayrhofen Austria, July 1967.
I believe it was this camera (or something very similar to it):
Mine was not an "Asahi" Pentax, but just a "regular" Pentax.
Badass.
You can kick those things down three flights of stairs and they'll still work, even a decade later. Mine in high school was just a "regular" Pentax as well, but yeah, a K1000 nonetheless.I currently have a refurbished (read: completely deconstructed, repaired and reconstructed) Asahi K1000 that I'm messing around with.
You're lucky you took those with Kodachrome. They brought back Ektachrome recently, but even that was amazing. Considering the massive rise in interest, it's very odd that the film industry has yet to really return to meet demand.
Please love yourself.
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@George-K @Aqua-Letifer You guys inspire me to find my old camera I had in a box in the closet.
I got this when I was much smaller, but took many pictures with it. I have not used it in a while.
I realize it does say "Asahi Pentax". Maybe that was the name when it was sold in Asia? And only Pentax when sold in the US?
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@taiwan_girl said in My lazy day:
I realize it does say "Asahi Pentax". Maybe that was the name when it was sold in Asia? And only Pentax when sold in the US?
It depends on who actually made them.
"Asahi Pentax" K1000s are very common, and they're more or less the standard issue K1000s. The ones only called "Pentax" were made in China, not Japan, and they're crappier. (More plastic parts.) There were also some Taiwanese-made K1000s, but they were better-built.
The OG K1000s were fully branded as manufactured by "Asahi Optical," and they came from Japan.
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@aqua-letifer said in My lazy day:
Which one? (Because c'mon, the gear stuff is damn fun. )
It's one of the early Sony mirrorless with the e mount (when they were branded NEX)
I mostly shoot with a 1.8 / 50mm prime... I need a 35mm.
