MK1 Photography Blog

 So Pentax have designed and built a new film camera the first in 20 years! I was very interested as I remember film so much find memories......I watched this video Pentax 17 And it really got me thinking about film all over again, the photos so vintage in today's world and the grain on a print when we didn't care about grain. Then it hit me STOP it's just GAS (gear acquisition syndrome) I already have a camera just like that It gives the nearest feel to analogue photography, great BW a bit of grain and slow process perhaps more mindful than most cameras today. Below is my grandson having a bath at my house I used my little X100 for this shot very filmic in look and exposure GAS averted!

I have kept with Olympus and now have an E-M1X an absolute beast in the M4:3 world. It came out in 2019 and was sold for a number of years, it been superceded by the OM1 Mkii but I still believe this is the king of the genre. Of course it's very large in this sensor world but very small compared to the likes of Canon or Nikon with a battery grip built in. I shoot macro and wildlife and of course my family. This camera performed so well in all these types of photography, below are firstly my latest examples of bird photography at which the cameras built in AI tracked the heron.

  Today I decided to venture out with my beautiful Finepix X100 The shots today were taken to show the autumnal change in the season here in the UK, the original sensor does well with these colours. Of course even with my many years with this camera it still does the usual X100 focus problems - I switched it into "macro mode" and at f4 this helps stop the errors when the background was busy. It was lovely to walk about with this so simple little classic