Macro with 'Old Lens' on PENTAX

[pentaxpete]

The beauty of using PENTAX Digital is that all the 'Old Lenses' fit, even the 1960's Screw-Thread lenses with the Screw-Bayonet adapter -- here are some photos with my 50mm f4 SMC Macro-Takumar lens on my K10D.
Hover-Fly ay f16 with my Elicar Ring-Flash

Ringflash 1 by pentaxpete, on Flickr
Here is my wife's Stargazer Lily at f22 with my Elicar ring-flash ( hand held) manual focus of course.

Ringflash 6 by pentaxpete, on Flickr

[hnikesch]

Very nice Pete, great job on focus and composition, I have been spoiled with auto focus on my Pentax Kr but have found new uses for my old lenses on my Pentax Q and it's 5.5X crop factor and focus peaking.

Hans

[gmw12]

Magnificent, Pete. I am glad I kept my old SMC K-mount 50mm f/4 macro. I guess this and the Takumar must have similar characteristics. Do you have particular recommendations concerning the post processing of pictures taken with this lens?
And thank you for yout reply.

[rawill]

I got an adapter ring to try old manual focus thread type, Pentax lenses on a Nikon D70s. Sadly they did not focus.
I had been hoping for some good macro shots.

Maybe not as good as those above!
Love the clarity and colour.

[Mr Foreman]

Very nice and sharp. Macro shots are fun but hard work to get right. Great shots.

[Wavelength]

Simply excellent

[pentaxpete]

Thanks to all my 'Viewers' -- well I do not do much 'Post Processing' as I find my photos come out right -- I just use PhotoShop 7 or FastStone Image Viewer to re-size and sharpen a little with unsharp mask.