ShimmeringSue
22-02-2013, 9:02pm
After many years away from one of my favourite hobbies I AM BACK!
During the 80's I had a trusty :plogo: K1000, a case full of lenses, filters and flashes, and an orange card file box filled with all of the details of different shots and darkroom techniques. I loved my macro and the journey into the world of all things tiny....I loved the tricks and skills that playing around in the darkroom AKA bedroom with windows papered over and black curtains. The darkroom light did come in handy many years later as a night light for the babies :D
Alas, just one month after Pentax stopped making the K1000, my camera died :(, so along came the ME Super. It was never the same, I got lazy with automation and when I moved into digital photography I barely bothered to learn the features of my Fujifilm S5500. Of course the minute you don't have camera at all you yearn to take that special shot. Murphy's Law was alive and well last year, when during a trip to Australia Zoo the battery latch failed. So in the pouring rain, with the latch held together with band-aids and muscle power a few good shots were taken.
After a hard year with one health problem after another I am finally feeling creative. So what better to do than to purchase a new Pentax K-5 that will take all of my old lenses. I have read the 370 pages of the Operating Manual and my head full to overflowing....
Wish me luck in getting past the technical bits so i can concentrate on the subject matter and get back to he joy of capturing all of those special things!
During the 80's I had a trusty :plogo: K1000, a case full of lenses, filters and flashes, and an orange card file box filled with all of the details of different shots and darkroom techniques. I loved my macro and the journey into the world of all things tiny....I loved the tricks and skills that playing around in the darkroom AKA bedroom with windows papered over and black curtains. The darkroom light did come in handy many years later as a night light for the babies :D
Alas, just one month after Pentax stopped making the K1000, my camera died :(, so along came the ME Super. It was never the same, I got lazy with automation and when I moved into digital photography I barely bothered to learn the features of my Fujifilm S5500. Of course the minute you don't have camera at all you yearn to take that special shot. Murphy's Law was alive and well last year, when during a trip to Australia Zoo the battery latch failed. So in the pouring rain, with the latch held together with band-aids and muscle power a few good shots were taken.
After a hard year with one health problem after another I am finally feeling creative. So what better to do than to purchase a new Pentax K-5 that will take all of my old lenses. I have read the 370 pages of the Operating Manual and my head full to overflowing....
Wish me luck in getting past the technical bits so i can concentrate on the subject matter and get back to he joy of capturing all of those special things!