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GeWilli @gewilli.bsky.social · 6m

These are all really lovely. Thank you for sharing them.

GeWilli @gewilli.bsky.social · 8m

Walking

Not sure why I didn't put this with the group yesterday. But looking at the photos from the session, it is one I like. Given the statistics of the internet and sharing it might be the least popular of them all (not the goal)

Oct 7, 2025
📷 Pentax K3 mkiii monochrome SCM DFA-100mm macro

one person walking left to right - multiple people walking right to left, a light post and tall grasses behind the figures.

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GeWilli @gewilli.bsky.social · 10m

Abstract #2

The completely oversaturated image also falls into that total miss but maybe also working better than if it was perfectly exposed.

Oct 7, 2025
📷 Pentax K3 mkiii monochrome SCM DFA-100mm macro

people walking in a motion blur with aperture way too wide open for the amount of available light and shutter speed.

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GeWilli @gewilli.bsky.social · 12m

Abstract #1

revisiting yesterday's motions after thinking, and wanted to look at initially the least successful at the goal but in way more perfect from being so far from the mark.

Oct 7, 2025
📷 Pentax K3 mkiii monochrome SCM DFA-100mm macro

sign post and movement somewhat grouped lines of light and motion but abstracted.

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GeWilli @gewilli.bsky.social · 18m

Nonsense, coffee is ALWAYS the answer 😁

Thank you 🙏

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GeWilli @gewilli.bsky.social · 52m

i have an abysmally cheap and crappy M42 Vivitar, it was all I could afford way back in college (made a bit after this one, but not by much), this is night and day different.

Seems this V.3 might have been the pinnacle (of these zoom range) made by Komine.

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GeWilli @gewilli.bsky.social · 57m

There's a lot in that last book that is kind of perfect for the right now.

(Bonus for referencing Art & Fear)

Good light reading even if there are excessive references to Twitter 😉

Looking for a change of pace, a worthy pick up read by @austinkleon.bsky.social

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The Steal Like an Artist Audio Trilogy

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GeWilli @gewilli.bsky.social · 1h

More specifically it is version 3
(for those keeping track)
And yes it is heavy (lots of glass) and push pull is kind of annoying but unlike say the Nikon zoom gravity doesn't seem to change the zoom.
www.pentaxforums.com/userreviews/...

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GeWilli @gewilli.bsky.social · 1h

oh good idea... have a few of those but not in a enough sizes but maybe one for the next time I try this

Why does it seem every lens I have has a different thread diameter?

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GeWilli @gewilli.bsky.social · 2h

Sometimes I just stop on my commute and try to answer a question using the Internet.

And yeah It's raining and dark and I put some K100 in the K1000 and even bumping to ISO 200 it's obvs dark.

And somehow I haven't figured out how to open the lens up to 2.8

When at 70mm it's locked 😞

Photo illustrating that I've stopped on the side of the bike path. In the leeward side of the trees along the bike path.

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GeWilli @gewilli.bsky.social · 14h

Shutter speeds all seem different, although hard for me to tell if 1000 is faster than 500 but the rest feel about right.

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GeWilli @gewilli.bsky.social · 14h

It's pretty svelte compared to my Spotmatic SP 😁😉

Has been on the short list of cameras I've been wanting.

Need to fill it out with some old K-mount lenses now, darn.

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GeWilli @gewilli.bsky.social · 14h

Thanks for that, I've got a bit of both, will give it a try if I end up using this a bunch.

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GeWilli @gewilli.bsky.social · 14h

Fresh battery and the meter is responding.

Test roll next!

Although the lens is a bit 'loose' bounced around a bit in transit perhaps...

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GeWilli @gewilli.bsky.social · 15h

It was an unexpected surprise.

I don't need another Pentax but it's my first k mount to go with my 3 M42 Spotmatics (my OG SP one, the black SPII and the Honeywell SP 1000)

Looking forward to trying the lens on the K3 mono

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GeWilli @gewilli.bsky.social · 15h

So an old cyclocross friend asked me if I wanted his old film camera. I said yes.

And what do I have now?
An Asahi K1000
And a Vivitar series 1 VMC 70-210 f2. 8-4

I might even have a fresh battery for the camera!
camera-wiki.org/wiki/Series_...

Series 1 70-210mm f/2.8-4 VMC Macro Focusing Zoom (Cosina) - Camera-wiki.org - The free camera encyclopedia

camera-wiki.org

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GeWilli @gewilli.bsky.social · 15h

From the beginning I should have ordered the stuff. But hey I clean stuff like this all the time (and sometimes mess it up)

One thing that makes it less fun is having to power the shutter up and the blinky red light makes it feel more like de-fusing a bomb, esp with the sensor so far back.

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GeWilli @gewilli.bsky.social · 16h

I'll take a look at that. Thank you.

Kind of want a redo on this camera, both in the first couple cleaning I attempted and the whole keeping it clean. I'm way behind the curve in creating good digital chip care habits.

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GeWilli @gewilli.bsky.social · 16h

This is one of those times when having some neutral density filters would be helpful (I don't have any)

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GeWilli @gewilli.bsky.social · 17h

As low as it goes... 200

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GeWilli @gewilli.bsky.social · 18h

The full bright sun made it extra challenging, esp with this monochrome sensor. Stopping the lens down to F32 and still overexposed a handful.

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GeWilli @gewilli.bsky.social · 18h

Another✔️ in the film camera box

Sensor is always clean (to start with)

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GeWilli @gewilli.bsky.social · 18h

LR remove tool to the rescue

Unfortunately all this dirt is my fault somehow, I was a bit cavalier in the first two years of ownership, now I'm that stereotypical super cautious lens swapper

*quick quick pointed down shielded from the wind*

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GeWilli @gewilli.bsky.social · 18h

Four Long exposures

call it an exercise/working with a different challenge

Oct 7, 2025
📷 Pentax K3 mkiii monochrome SCM DFA-100mm macro

Landscaper moving a wheelbarrow full of soil from the loader to backfill further away.

A person walking, slightly motion blurred and the background noticeable but just a little fuzzy... least motiony of the set but I like it

A person in a dark shirt and wearing a backpack riding a bicycle past me and everything else is streaked in motion blurr

Walking with phone a person with their hair up and a large back over a shoulder and under their arm walking looking at their device

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GeWilli @gewilli.bsky.social · 18h

Bees and a Butterfly

A walk with the macro lens
Oct 7, 2025

📷 Pentax K3 mkiii monochrome SCM DFA-100mm macro
#bnwmacro

Bee on a new england aster (it is purple - the flower)

Okay this was technically not in macro - close range just using the macro lens... but this is a small orange and black butterfly resting on some woodchips

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