Yorktown Heights, NY – The Yorktown Stage

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According to the Yorktown Stage website:

Delighting audiences for 19 Seasons and funded solely by its own programs, Yorktown Stage mounts productions, featuring a wide variety of 1st rate, live, professional theatre, including hit Broadway musicals, revivals of the classics and Children’s Musicals.

And now, Yorktown Stage Kids presents yearly productions featuring the future stars of theatre with children 8-21 years of age. Voted Best in Family Entertainment!

For summer fun, enjoy eight weeks of the most popular and affordable summer camp program in Northern Westchester County for children ages 5-13. And our dance company, Just Dance! At Yorktown Stage, features weekday classes in hip-hop, lyrical, tap, jazz, ballet, tumbling, broadway dance and Production and Technique.

Additionally, individual voice and dance lessons are available through our resident artistic directors and choreographers.

Handicap Accessible, free parking, air conditioning and restaurants nearby.

Taken with a Pentax ME Super and SMC Pentax-M 50mm f1.7.

Yorktown Heights, NY – An old railway station

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According to the Town of Yorktown website:

The Putnam Railroad began business as the New York and Boston Railroad on May 21, 1869. Its goal was to link Westchester and Putnam counties with railroad lines serving upstate New York and New England into Canada. In the 1880s the railroad station was the center of town, surrounded by five stores, a school, a hotel, two locksmiths, a wheelwright, and two churches. When the rail line closed, the Town of Yorktown eventually came into ownership of the station and the surrounding property, which became a town park.

In 1976/77, the Town repaired the station house exterior. In 1981 the station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and in 1994 the Historical Society undertook exterior renovations. Today the Railroad Station stands at the side of the North County Trailway and is again in need of repairs, but ultimately the Town would like to open it as a small snack shop.

Taken with a Pentax ME Super and SMC Pentax-M 50mm f1.7.

Yorktown Heights, NY – A couple of artillery pieces

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I took most of the pictures with the Pentax ME Super while walking around Yorktown Heights, NY as I waited for my wife to finish with her dental appointment. Shortly after I left the car I came across, in quick succession an American Legion Post and a Veterans of Foreign Wars post.

Outside each of them was a small artillery piece. I have no idea what they are. I’ll have to consult with my friend, a former artillery lieutenant-colonel. Although these are probably long before his time he’s usually pretty good at “ferreting out” the required information.

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Taken with a Pentax ME Super and SMC Pentax-MM 50mm f1.7

Film Camera 2018/1 – Pentax ME Super – Results

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Bicycle Shop, Yorktown NY.

This post considers the results from using the Pentax ME Super mentioned in an earlier post (See:Film Camera 2018/1 – Pentax ME Super).

My first reaction on getting the scans back from processing was one of surprise. I thought I had put in a roll of Tri-X and so it was a bit of a shock to see the images in color. Then I realized that I must have used the last of a number of rolls of Fuji Superia X-TRA 400, which I bought because they were inexpensive. I’ve used this film a number of times and I can’t say that I like it very much. A post on the Phoblographer describes it “…as being moderately saturated with little contrast and a sometimes almost matte look when underexposed”. I’d agree. To me it also has a quite pronounced green tint, which I find unattractive. Could it be that this is because it was quite old and the color had shifted?

Since I had it in my head that I was getting black and white images and I didn’t much like the colors in what I did get I decided to convert the pictures to black and white.

Otherwise I was quite satisfied with the results. The camera seemed to function as desired apart from one possible issue: a couple of the frames suggested that there might be a problem with the shutter at the highest shutter speeds. Unfortunately, I didn’t record what shutter speeds I used so I can’t say for sure.

Taken with a Pentax ME Super and SMC Pentax-M 50mm f1.7