Pentax ME Super and Sonnar 135/35 (single coated)

PaulC · Joined: 23 Dec 2008 Posts: 2318

I got the ME Super back in action in time for my India trip but I didn't have much time to experiment with it. It's been mine for 30 years or so but I stopped using it a decade ago and my ideas of what sort of quality is acceptable have gone through the roof since then.

The long and the short of it is that I've been very disappointed with most of the results from it particularly the persistent user errors leading to camera shake. I need to be much more deliberate in the way I handle it.

A handful of shots seem more of less OK. This is one of them, a fisherman running his boat into the sea. How they control and fish from those contraptions is beyond me - I guess they are just for work close inshore:

PaulC · Joined: 23 Dec 2008 Posts: 2318

Here are the rest of the almost acceptable ones from that roll. First a tourist shop on the cliff at Varkala, Kerala. This must have been shot with a wide angle, either the 35mm or the 20mm

Next are typical rural houses in the jungle. On the left is the old fashioned type. The red tiled one on the right is one of the "Gulf money" buildings, put up by someone working in Dubai, Qatar or other Gulf countries.

Finally, a fisherman's cottage. I was told they use these to rest in after the night's fishing but have permanent homes further inland.

Attila · Expire: 2025-11-18

Nice pictures as always! I especially like your new avatar Wink