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A shot taken with my 55mm f1.2 lens. Still using live view to accurately focus as it can be a nightmare!
This is definitely my favourite lens and I think it is because it is so difficult (for me) to control. With the lens being manual focus, it really feels like you are taking a photo rather than the camera taking a photo. So when I get a shot that I think is acceptable I feel like I have achieved more... If that makes sense? Don't get me wrong, my other gear is sharper and produces far better images with less colour fringing, but I didn't buy this lens to shoot at anything other than f1.2 really!
Canon 40D + Converted FD 55mm f1.2 @ f1.2, 1/640s, ISO 100
More FD f1.2 shots...
CHAIKA-II (type 1a, 1968) half frame camera (24x18)
Lens: INDUSTAR-69 2.8/28mm
Shutter: Leaf shutter (1/30- 1/60 - 1/125 - 1/250 +B)
Film: 35mm (72 frames in 24mm x 18mm)
Made by MMZ
"The Sandman”, piloted by Robert Sternfels ( in foreground ) , as it emerges from a pall of smoke during the “Operation Tidal Wave” on 1 Aug, 1943. This mission was one of the costliest for the USAAF in the European Theater, with 53 aircraft and 660 air crewmen lost. From a Official USAAF print
Largest industrial building in the world at time of construction. 1/3rd of a mile from end-to-end.
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
1973
Full Spyder Zetec conversion Ford engine
Spaceframe chassis.
Spyder Indipendent suspension all round.
72,000 miles.
Production 1962–1975, 1989–1995, 2013–
Assembly Hethel, England
Body styles 2-door coupe and 2-door roadster
Engine Lotus 1,558 cc
Wheelbase 2,134 mm (84 in)
Length 3,683 mm (145 in)
Width 1,422 mm (56 in)
Height 1,156 mm (46 in)
Curb weight 688 kg (1,517 lb)
2012 Whittlesey Festival
my friend Ivo came to Chile. He is now back in Germany. we had a great time.
I wish him the best. he's a great guy, and everyone who met him can say exactly the same.
so, this is the first of two shots I want to upload.
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strobist info:
flash full power in a tripod behind subject.
Nikon SB-24 at 1/8 cam left with 1/2 CTO, handheld.
Blazzeo triggers.
The Sun Rising
Busy old fool, unruly Sun,
Why dost thou thus,
Through windows, and through curtains, call on us?
Must to thy motions lovers’ seasons run?
Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide
Late school-boys and sour prentices,
Go tell court-huntsmen that the king will ride,
Call country ants to harvest offices;
Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
Thy beams so reverend, and strong
Why shouldst thou think?
I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink,
But that I would not lose her sight so long.
If her eyes have not blinded thine,
Look, and to-morrow late tell me,
Whether both th’ Indias of spice and mine
Be where thou left’st them, or lie here with me.
Ask for those kings whom thou saw’st yesterday,
And thou shalt hear, “All here in one bed lay.”
She’s all states, and all princes I;
Nothing else is;
Princes do but play us; compared to this,
All honour’s mimic, all wealth alchemy.
Thou, Sun, art half as happy as we,
In that the world’s contracted thus;
Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be
To warm the world, that’s done in warming us.
Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere;
This bed thy center is, these walls thy sphere.
John Donne, 1572 - 1631
Still only one sister. Are you being patient? If you aren't, you aren't my friend. Now bring me some biscuits and a nice hot cuppa.
Fed 2 rangefinder camera with Industar-26M 50mm f:2.8 lens.
The proletarian's Leica, made in USSR during the height of the cold war.
This is currently my favorite, go anywhere, just for fun camera. It needs no batteries, it doesn't have an exposure meter. It's all mechanical, cheap and built like a tank. What's not to love.