John Sheldon's photos

Picture taken using smc Pentax-A 50mm f1.7 prime lens on a Pentax K10D DSLR. The lenses are 18-55 and 50-200 zooms, of the WR series. Taken with Pentax A 50mm f1.7 prime lens.

Picture of Yashicamat TLR straight out of the camera. Scanned picture of Grandma tilted and turned into the correct plane, and montaged in, using serif PhotoPlus X5 software. Pentax A 50mm f1.7 prime lens.

In no way do I suggest that the Yashica-Mat lenses are like the bottoms of bottles - they have always rightly been highly regarded for their optical performance. Yashica-Mat 1957 model, manufactured in 1962. Pentax A 50mm f1.7 prime lens.

1962 Yashica-Mat twin lens reflex film camera, wearing its supplementary close-up lenses.

This camera model was introduced by Yashica in 1957 and this one's serial number places its manufacture in 1962. Apart from the self-timer and shutter speeds slower than 1/30 sec, it still works.

1962 Yashica-Mat twin lens reflex film camera with some accessories and an 'original' Ilford FP4 film reel. Pentax A 50mm f1.7 prime lens.

Olympus zoom lens, early 1980s.

Removing the old gungy light seals from an Olympus OM10, fitting new ones, and renewing the mirror damper. Fortunately the mirror had never made contact with the old damper, so is unspoiled! I used the repair kit marketed by Jon Goodman of Texas.

Olympus OM10 fim camera body, with renewed light seals and mirror damper. Zuiko MC Auto-S 50mm f1.8 lens. E.Zuiko Auto-T 135mm f3.5 lens. S Zuiko Auto-Zoom 100~200mm f5 lens. This equipment all seems to date from the early 1980s.