View allAll Photos Tagged Adaptive
After a bit of a lens conundrum I finally landed on a sigma 500 f4 sports lens. I have to say that this lens is sharp, easily sharper wide open than my canon 400 2.8 wide open, the canon stopped down and they are probably almost even giving a slight edge to the 400 which is impressive, really impressive as that canon could slice butter. It took me a few lenses to get here, canon 500 f4 IS and canon 600 f4 IS which I was totally underwhelmed by especially as all I read is how fantastic they are, both pretty poor wide open (Remember I’m comparing those both to the 400 2.8). For me a lens has to optically perform wide open or I may as-well get a zoom and save money. Then we get to the af performance, all three of the canons where poor with the older non IS 400 2.8 performing better than the two newer 500 and 600 IS models. The 500 and 600 where so bad I started to manual focus! The sigma with the sigma adapter for the Sony is such an improvement over the canon, even appears to track, no where near sony level.
my regular evening balcony visitors: a Butcher Bird and a Magpie
adapted E.Zuiko 4,5cm f2.8 (for Olympus ACE)
Adapt or perish, now as ever, it's natures inexorable imperative
H.G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
Created and uploaded for the Motivational Poster challenge at the Daarklands group...
www.flickr.com/groups/daarklands/discuss/72157622358380113/
Trees growing out of solid granite at Yosemite National Park
Ribs of a barrel cactus, fitting in as well as possible to a major distortion in the pattern. Tortolita Mountains, NW of Tucson.
ZWO EAF motorised focuser added to my camera and lens mounting system for the Nikon D810A and 300mm f/2.8 VR. It worked brilliantly controlled by Astro Photography Tool. Home made mount, T2.5 belt.
Las yucas son plantas suculentas del género Yucca, compuesto por una cincuentena de especies de la subfamilia Agavoideae nativas de Norte y Centroamérica, características por sus rosetas de hojas con forma de espadas y por sus racimos de flores blancas.
No debe confundirse con la yuca o mandioca comestible (Manihot esculenta).
Descripción
Son plantas policárpicas, arrosetadas, arborescentes, arbustivas o herbáceas, terrestres o epífitas.
Hojas agrupadas en las puntas de las ramas, linear-lanceoladas, rígidas, planas o convexas; ápice por lo general espinoso; márgenes enteros, fibrosos o denticulados. Inflorescencia una panícula erecta o péndula.
Flores bisexuales, blancas o blanquecinas, campanuladas o globosas; tépalos libres o ligeramente unidos cerca de la base; estambres hipóginos, erectos, más cortos que el perianto, los filamentos robustos, las anteras pequeñas, basifijas, sésiles; ovario súpero, sésil, 3-locular, a veces por aborción de uno imperfectamente 2-loculados, los óvulos numerosos; estilo columnar corto, dividido hacia el final en 3 lobos estigmáticos.
Fruto indehiscente, carnoso, pulposo o esponjoso, o una cápsula seca dehiscente; semillas fuertemente comprimidas, negras. 49 spp. S. Canadá y Estados Unidos a Guatemala; cultivadas comúnmente en otros países.
De Wikipedia.
En España se han adaptado perfectamente tanto en zonas áridas como en zonas del Norte.
Bellisimas cuando florecen con sus grandes panículas de flores blancas.
Esta la enccontré en una zona costera de Asturias,
Hecha. "Manio alzada" sin trípode ni nada
;o))
Adapted to the harsh climate of Po-Wahi, the Northern Sand Tarakava is perfect for transporting protodermic ore from remote mines of the Motara Desert.
How to Train your Tarakava
So this is a new lens to me. I've tried to stay away from yet another line of vintage lenses to adapt to my Canon R7, but I found this lens for a really great price and I had heard that these are actually a really good lens to start with.
The colors of this lens are very punchy and the contrast is strong. But this is not as sharp of a lens as I was led to believe. I'm a little disapointed actually. Compared to my Konica lenses, this is fairly soft and it doesn't render all the details that some of my other vintage lenses do. Sveral of my Konica lenses are way sharper than this lens. Maybe my copy has an issue, but I don't see any reason to open this lens. Its absolutely spotless inside and everything works perfectly.
Maybe I'm being too hard on this lens, it does create some beautiful images. I just need to add a bit more sharpening and post work than what I'm used to with other lenses.
Anyhow, these are some of the first images taken with this lens. Maybe I need to shoot it a lot more to fully understand it.
Shot using a Minolta MC Rokkor-X PG 50/f1.4 @f1.4
the alien army of soldier crabs emerging from the silver swamp
adapted 16mm film Kodak Cine Anastigmat 63mm f2.7
refitted projection lens Will-Wetzlar 85mm f2.8
* this lens was kindly donated to me by Vlad Marancenbaum www.flickr.com/photos/vladoper/
He also has an eBay shop where he sells adapted lenses www.ebay.com/usr/vladoper
I love watching the wood pigeons come into our garden.Shot with Fujifilm X-H1 & old adapted Vivitar 70-300mm manual focus
zoom.
" the wiser mind
mourns less for what Age takes away,
Than what it leaves behind. "
..........William Wordsworth... ( 1770 - 1850 ).
.....English Romantic poet.
.........." The Fountain. "
Adapted to a Canon M50 MK II. A wickedly sharp sleeper lens bought for under $10. This lens is best used with a crop-sensor camera like the M50 (closer to a 4:3 ratio TV camera with a 1" sensor).
Lowell is a city in Massachusetts, in the United States. With Cambridge, Lowell is one of two traditional seats of Middlesex County.
Beginning in the early 19th century, the village grew to become a major centre of cotton textile manufacturing, with an abundance of waterpower from the Merrimack's Pawtucket Falls (32 feet [10 metres]) and the completion of the Middlesex Canal link to Boston in 1803
By 1840, the factories in Lowell employed at some estimates more than 8,000 textile workers, commonly known as mill girls or factory girls. ... The Lowell mills were the first hint of the industrial revolution to come in the United States, and with their success came two different views of the factories
A Classic Car Through a Vintage Lens
RMC Tokina 24mm 1:2.8 (Minolta MD mount) @ f/8
through Quenox Focal Reducer Minolta SR - Fuji X-Mount
on Fujifilm X-E1
Check my album Adapted Manual Lenses for more...