Photo opps on trip to St. George Utah
Oct 2, 2016 17:38:27 #
I just got back from a trip to the southern in of our state of Utah, St. George. While there I took lots of pictures with an old Pentax film camera, a Pentax Spotmatic F.
The Spotmatic F was the last camera body that attached lenses using the M42 thread mount system, but had a second little finger on the lens attaching back of the lens that allowed the pictures to be taken with the meter on and the lens left in its most open iris setting. This made focusing much easier and more accurate. Soon after that the first SK mount Pentax camera came out and was called the K1000. I have an extensive collection of the SMC Takumar lenses that offered open aperture reading in the M42 mount.
I have not yet developed any of the many rolls of b/w film I shot. The big differences between these recently shot rolls and a roll I took back in 1968 with my first Pentax Spotmatic are that I now had many lenses to choose from besides the original 50mm f1.4 and I also had shoe mount FA280T flash to bounce off walls and ceilings.
The subjects were the Brigham Young Winter Home in St. George, the Jacob Hamblin home in Santa Clara (north-west of St. George), the water wheel run cotton mill in Washington, UT (just to the east of St. George) and Cove Fort, which is far north of St. George in central Utah and was the approximately half-way resting point for Brigham Young when he went by wagon from SLC to St. George.
While I'm not a practicing Latter Day Saint but I am a native born Utahn and find Utah's history fascinating.
Hopefully, I'll find time within the week or two to develop those rolls taken and will have some worthwhile shots of these historic sites to digitally scan and share with my newfound UHH friends.
The Spotmatic F was the last camera body that attached lenses using the M42 thread mount system, but had a second little finger on the lens attaching back of the lens that allowed the pictures to be taken with the meter on and the lens left in its most open iris setting. This made focusing much easier and more accurate. Soon after that the first SK mount Pentax camera came out and was called the K1000. I have an extensive collection of the SMC Takumar lenses that offered open aperture reading in the M42 mount.
I have not yet developed any of the many rolls of b/w film I shot. The big differences between these recently shot rolls and a roll I took back in 1968 with my first Pentax Spotmatic are that I now had many lenses to choose from besides the original 50mm f1.4 and I also had shoe mount FA280T flash to bounce off walls and ceilings.
The subjects were the Brigham Young Winter Home in St. George, the Jacob Hamblin home in Santa Clara (north-west of St. George), the water wheel run cotton mill in Washington, UT (just to the east of St. George) and Cove Fort, which is far north of St. George in central Utah and was the approximately half-way resting point for Brigham Young when he went by wagon from SLC to St. George.
While I'm not a practicing Latter Day Saint but I am a native born Utahn and find Utah's history fascinating.
Hopefully, I'll find time within the week or two to develop those rolls taken and will have some worthwhile shots of these historic sites to digitally scan and share with my newfound UHH friends.
Oct 2, 2016 19:08:28 #
Did you go to Zion National Park while you were there? I was there about a month ago and it is a great place for photography.
Oct 2, 2016 21:41:31 #
We were on a tight schedule and needed to be back home in Ogden before going to a nieces daughter' recital.
Here is a picture I took with my digital Pentax K-5 the last time we were in Zion. I love the place, or rather, I should say I love all of Utah's Red Rock places.
Here is a picture I took with my digital Pentax K-5 the last time we were in Zion. I love the place, or rather, I should say I love all of Utah's Red Rock places.
Oct 2, 2016 21:55:56 #
R. Bush wrote:
We were on a tight schedule and needed to be back home in Ogden before going to a nieces daughter' recital.
Here is a picture I took with my digital Pentax K-5 the last time we were in Zion. I love the place, or rather, I should say I love all of Utah's Red Rock places.
Here is a picture I took with my digital Pentax K-5 the last time we were in Zion. I love the place, or rather, I should say I love all of Utah's Red Rock places.
Yes, it is a beautiful part of the country. Nice picture.
Oct 3, 2016 13:51:55 #
As you know, Utah offers some of the best landscape photography sites in the Western US.
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