Tag: Pentax ME
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Captured: On the water
Eagle Creek Reservoir may be one of Indianapolis’s premier recreation destinations, but it was built as a flood-control project. Big Eagle Creek kept overflowing its banks. More than once it flooded the little town of Traders Point, which used to nestle nearby where Lafayette Road (then US 52) intersected the creek. The flood control project…
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Captured: Reflected in the bulbs
In the last two weeks of 2013 I shot five rolls of film: two black-and-white and three color; four 35mm and one 120. I shot my Pentax ME, my Yashica-D, my Konica Autoreflex T3, my Nikon N65, and my Nikon F2. Oh, and I also shot half a pack of film in my new old Polaroid…
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Captured: The bear on 56th Street
The bear stands on a cliff overlooking Eagle Creek Reservoir and 56th Street. He was the mascot of the former Galyan’s sporting-goods store. Galyan’s sold to Dick’s, which donated the bear to the city, which placed the bear here. I last photographed the bear in 2012 with my Pentax K1000. Standing on the shoulder of…
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Captured: Head
Off-brand zoom lenses sometimes come with the old SLRs I buy, and I generally don’t shoot with them because I assume they’re not going to be very good. But on what was probably the last warm and sunny Sunday afternoon of 2013, I went shooting just for fun and decided to snap a Sears f/4 80-200mm zoom-macro…
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Casual portraits on Kodak Tri-X 400
We had another pitch-in recently at church, and I took my camera along again. I was thrilled when several members were very happy to see my Pentax ME hanging from my neck and asked if I’d be sure to photograph them at some point during the meal. Morris was first in line, asking me to photograph…
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Captured: Snow-covered dog
I can’t believe Gracie is still with me. She’s at least 16 now! She’s stiff and slow, but as eager as ever to be anywhere I am. I had some Fujifilm Superia X-tra 400 in my Pentax ME, and my 50mm f/2 SMC Pentax-M lens was attached. I had a few shots left on the…
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Scenes from a pitch-in
We call them pitch-ins here in Indiana. I guess people in most of the rest of the country call them potlucks. When people from out of state visit our church and we announce a pitch-in, the “hunh?” look on their faces always turns to an “Oh!” look when we say, “That’s what we call a…
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Film photos from the Dixie Highway
When I take a road trip I always bring my digital camera. I also bring my extra battery, because I take hundreds of photos when on the road and hate to run out of juice. My recent trip along the Dixie Highway in southern Indiana was unusual in that it yielded only 191 photos! I like…
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Following the Dixie Highway to Paoli’s charming square
I’ll never forget the first time I visited Paoli. Calling it a visit is a bit of a stretch, of course; I was just passing through, with a friend on the way to his southern Indiana home for a long weekend away from school. But I’d never encountered a town with a square before, and…
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Captured: Rife’s Market
I visited my friend Alice in Columbus, Ohio, the weekend before last. We ended up taking in the galleries, thrift stores, and specialty shops along Grandview Ave. and 5th Ave. near the Upper Arlington neighborhood. Rife’s Market stands on the southeast corner of 5th and Grandview. It’s a real throwback – meat and produce in…
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Hankering to shoot in black and white
Several cameras I bought last fall and winter have piled up here. I’ve been busy shooting with them, including a Kodak Monitor, a Kodak Retina IIa, and a Minolta SR-T-101. Writeups are on the way! An Olympus Stylus Epic Zoom 8o, a Polaroid One Step 600, and a Polaroid Pronto are waiting their turns. But…
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Pentax ME
A review of the Pentax ME, a 35mm SLR and the camera I use most by far.