Duncan,
I hope you don't mind but I have had a bit of a play with your K1000 shot. Jake ( my four footed shadow ) was present for all of mine so I needed something different to occupy the brain.
I have increased the exposure in CS, done a bit of spotting and other little bits of tidying up, ( Christine type stuff - A bit of spot the difference. ) and increased the area at the top. I am really quite pleased with the result, but as it is your pic I hope you are too. I did have to give additional compression to get to this file size.
The Rollei is an interesting idea. Do you have a 2 1/4 square trannie that you can lay on the foussing screen ? That should project coloured, rather than white light onto the lens.
Looking at both pictures the exposures both need upping. The advantage of using RAW here, would be that you can increase exposure of the RAW file while retaining the DOF that your current aperture is giving. Also well worth the effort is to get the verticals right at the taking time. I have been looking at image degradation on correcting this in post processing, and it does result in a softening of the whole image.
Don
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