Pentax Pentax Pentax...!
The Pentax LX is a jewel of a camera with some astonishing features that don't immediately hit the eye - more on those perhaps another time...
It made it's appearance in 1980 (cf. Nikon F3) and remained in the catalogues until the year 2000, when a limited commemorative edition in titanium was produced. It received the model name LX to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Asahi Optical Company in 1920.
The LX was a real multi-purpose camera with a wide range of accessories and was highly valued by professional photographers.
Here we see it fitted with a winder and surrounded by the many interchangeable viewfinders that were available.
The lens is the very fast SMC Pentax-A 50mm f:1.2.
The picture goes back to my very beginnings in digital photography. It was taken in 2008 with my first digital (compact zoom) camera, the 7-megapixel Pentax Optio L30.
I've processed it for Sliders Sunday, working on a variety of parameters in my "digital darkroom". The lighting effect I achieved with repeated use of tools for dodging and burning-in, combined with sliders for colour tint, saturation and contrast.
HSS!
(P.S. Please ignore "Takumar" in the Exif data!")
Pentax Pentax Pentax...!
The Pentax LX is a jewel of a camera with some astonishing features that don't immediately hit the eye - more on those perhaps another time...
It made it's appearance in 1980 (cf. Nikon F3) and remained in the catalogues until the year 2000, when a limited commemorative edition in titanium was produced. It received the model name LX to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Asahi Optical Company in 1920.
The LX was a real multi-purpose camera with a wide range of accessories and was highly valued by professional photographers.
Here we see it fitted with a winder and surrounded by the many interchangeable viewfinders that were available.
The lens is the very fast SMC Pentax-A 50mm f:1.2.
The picture goes back to my very beginnings in digital photography. It was taken in 2008 with my first digital (compact zoom) camera, the 7-megapixel Pentax Optio L30.
I've processed it for Sliders Sunday, working on a variety of parameters in my "digital darkroom". The lighting effect I achieved with repeated use of tools for dodging and burning-in, combined with sliders for colour tint, saturation and contrast.
HSS!
(P.S. Please ignore "Takumar" in the Exif data!")