Pentax-K 28mm F3.5 - fresh Zurich by bike views

<p>Good evening Pentaxians<br>

I had a job in the old part of Zurich yesterday and went around parts of the lake by bike. As announced before, I restricted myself to just one lens, this time the Pentax-K 28mm F3.5 on the K10D and a table tripod for the night shots.<br>

Nearly all of my Pentax-A lenses with the exception of the Sigma wide 24mm F2.8 lead to underexposure with the K10D in P mode and want a compensation of around +.7 under normal lighting conditions. Using the green mode button in M mode alone would have produced overexposed photos up to 1 stop with the Pentax K 28mm F3.5 during that sunny Sunday but underexposed ones as well during the night with serveral second long exposures.<br>

I wished Ricoh, Cosina, Chinon or some other licence taker of the old K-mount could produce a simple digital body with full backward compatibility for K/M/A and M42 lenses! <br>

This K lens can produce exceptional 3d-ish images and is very sharp with nice color rendition, I'm very fond of the Pentax-K-series and would buy any prime I see despite "the slowness factor" with the metering. All photos where taken at ISO 100 or 200 and F3.5-F11.<br>

So, please follow me to a short round trip starting at the cultural center "red fabric" in Zurich with lots of professional graffiti artists, the ship harbor in Zurich-Wollishofen, the famous succulent collection, up to the Bellevue with the typical Zurich postcard scenes again and into the Seefeld quarter and I hope you enjoy it.</p>

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<p>While steamboat "Stadt Zurich" is on dry dock Teddy gets a ride on the bike.</p><div></div>

<p>Construction of the huge ramp for the Zurich freestyle rider festival in progress</p><div></div>

<p>the Zurich Succulent collection must have hundreds of cactii and succulents, in April and May you can see most of them blooming.</p><div></div>

<p>a room for each climate and continent</p><div></div>

<p>one for the Americans :-)</p><div></div>

<p>a view from the harbor "Enge" </p><div></div>

<p>The typical view over the 3 churches Fraumunster, St.Peter and Grossmunster from the Bellvue</p><div></div>

<p>from the same position at night</p><div></div>

<p>Closer to Grossmunster, there was a "barefoot dance party" in the old womens bath in the foreground going on.</p><div></div>

<p>a last one before daytime again</p><div></div>

<p>Have a rest near the cinema Corso with it's funky dance club on the first floor :-)</p><div></div>

<p>Passing a bikers shop Teddy</p><div></div>

<p>former alternate radio building in the "Seefeld" quarter</p><div></div>

<p>beautiful details at the schoolhouse fountain</p><div></div>

<p>Sunday leisure time at the casino Zurichhorn ship stop</p><div></div>

<p>Fishing and flirting</p><div></div>

<p>you have to start early</p><div></div>

<p>spin it</p><div></div>

<p>The entry to the Chinese garden which was a present from the partner city of Zurich "Kunming"</p><div></div>

<p>The "Heidi Weber" house by Le Corbusier</p><div></div>

<p>a street musician with 2 puppets</p><div></div>

<p>another one</p><div></div>

<p>parts of the old railway station "Tiefenbrunnen", it gets less postcardy now :-)</p><div></div>

<p>As a former sailor I get easily attracted by any boat...</p><div></div>