Christmas 2012

Christmas 2012, a set on Flickr.

I finally got all the film developed from Christmas so here are the best of the bunch (after finally finishing off the rolls late in January when it finally stopped raining). Some of these were taken with the Nikon P-300 digital and some with the Pentax ZX-30 on Kodak Gold 200 film. If you read the tags you can tell which are which.

I was experimenting with trying to get the big Promaster flash we bought for the *ist DL to work on Auto-TTL with the ZX-30. Apparently it doesn’t or I would have had more photos to share. The ones shown here from the ZX-30 were all taken using the on board flash unit which seems to work very well.

It’s amazing that Pentax has managed to make all their lenses and cameras interchangeable for the past 50 years but a flash bought just a few years ago for one Pentax camera doesn’t work with any other Pentax cameras, new or old. Well, that’s not entirely true. With the manual interface module it does on manual with all three of the “manual only” 35mm film cameras but that kind of misses the point altogether. You don’t need a big expensive TTL flash to use on manual with an all manual camera!