Not long after my first outing with the Pentax P30T, I went across to Speke Hall next to Liverpool’s John Lennon airport. It’s another National Trust run property, an interesting 16th century manorhouse which I think photographs well.
Once again it was another mixed day, mainly cloudy with a little bit of sunshine here and there which meant that the contrast levels were going up and down. I was using Ilford Delta100 again which was then developed in DD-X as previously. The negatives were scanned using my newly acquired Plustek Opticfilm 8100 with minimal sharpening at this stage. I had already learned that left to it’s own devices the scanner would occasionally sharpen so much that it would give the appearance of excessive grain.
Here are my photographs from Speke.
Altogether a pleasing set of pictures but I was frustrated by the alternating sun and cloud which made the photographs look as though they had been taken on different days.
I’m getting to like this camera, it’s easy to use and gets good results. Still not sure I like the balance of the camera with the zoom lens but it does help in composition.
I BOUGHT AN OLD FILM CAMERA 