Pentax K1000

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My analog Project 2011 comes to a close in December with my Pentax K1000. The K1000 was the workhorse for school and universities students world wide due to it's high quality, rock solid performance, reliability, and most importantly it's basic features. The Pentax K1000 offered the very basics of camera operation - manually set your ISO, shutter speed, aperture, focus.....and shoot. Outside of the TTL metering there was nothing automatic about this camera which meant that there was nothing to distract the user from learning the relationship between aperture, shutter speed, focal distance, and composition. The Pentax K1000 was my first real camera and will always remain in my heart, and collection forever. I remember one of my favorite things about the K1000 was it's big beautiful viewfinder. It's crisp. clean, clear, and bright - offering an unobstructed view of whatever you were shooting....my feelings about that still hold true today after decades of being apart. I shot only a single roll of 400 speed color for the project due to time constraints, I don't even remember which brand I used but it didn't matter because I was just glad to have a K1000 again. I now have several rolls of Kodak Portra 400 Professional waiting to be used in my K1000....happy shooting and good times will ensue. The Quantaray 28mm f/2.8 I spoke of in the video seems to be a tight fit but once mounted worked great and may end up being the most used lens on my K1000. I don't plan on buying anymore lenses for this camera so whatever I have will have to do......and I'm ok with that. Some of the photos pictured within this post were taken by me back in the 70's with my original Pentax K1000. Back then I only shot B W Ilford (sometimes Kodak) film including self processing and printing of my own photos. • I want to thank everyone for visiting my blog to view this year long photo project, and welcome you all back next year for more. If you have time please check out a short video slide show on my flickr photostream featuring images from my Pentax K1000 or jump over to my YouTube Ch. to learn a bit more about my K1000. • Here's a link to some of the images captured with my Pentax K1000: http://www.dred242.com/analog-project... • Thanks again and I hope you all tune in next year. • Blog: AdventuresInAnalog.com • Lomography Home: AdventuresInAnalog (over at Lomography.com) • Facebook Page: AdventuresInAnalog • Twitter: AdventuresInAnalog (@FilmIsLOVE) • flickr: Dred242 • Moblog: www.MobileEdition.net • Photoblog: www.BokehImage.com (I'm closing down this blog soon) • Old Blog: Dred242.com (also closing soon) • Check out a YouTube video by David Hancock called Introduction to the Pentax K1000 Features and Operation . He gives a pretty good walk-thru of the entire camera and how to use it. • Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/user/hancockDa...

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