Think of your camera's sensor (or film) as a projection screen. Direct a beam of light onto odd shaped transparent material such as plastic or glass so that the refracted pattern of light goes into your (lensless) camera.

Note - never aim a laser directly at the sensor!

Hi folks, this will be the last in this series of the Thrasher, I hope everyone understand's why I do these things, it's just that when you can get them after not seeing them for years you just do it, hoping for your understanding.

Thank you so much for the visit and have a glorious day.

Experimenting this morning, and I learned a lot:

1. I don't like an audience when working either shooting or editing.

2. I need to clean my lenses and subjects thoroughly with a lint free cloth before shooting.

3. I need to double check my settings after resetting the camera so I don't shoot and save my images in the lowest jpg setting.

4. I need to remember not to give up on my ideas but try again later when time allows, this is supposed to be fun!

Olympus E-M1 Mark II

Um, how do I teach my students about lens flare? (Sincere apologies for HDR haters)

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Populage des marais

Lens; Canon FD 100 mm f/ 4 Macro

shot by Wei with Pentax K7 50mm

@ Karluk Lake, Kodiak Island, Alaska

HAPPY, HEALTHY AND PROSPEROUS 2018.

THANK YOU! to all Flickr friends, for showing your images, which have at times amazed me, to be transported around the world in seconds, to share a bit of your life, is special to me, a extended part of my family. Am sorry that many of you I may never meet, but this year , to my joy , have met or bumped into quite a few more of you , and would love to continue that in 2018. THANK YOU for taking time to comment on my images, have learnt a lot, which is very appreciated, and am looking forward to continuing this into the new year, .......Please stay safe, enjoy, God bless you all...........

.........Tomx

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Turnstone found at Hampton, Herne bay, Kent, before a dog sent them all up.

Shot with Lensbaby 56 manual lens.

***There is no AI in this image ***

All manipulations were created in Photoshop.

Texture and Photo Studio Text Overlay by French Kiss/Bliss/Orchid., and Vintage frame.

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Thank you all for the visit, kind remarks and invites, they are very much appreciated! 💝 I may reply to only a few comments due to my restricted time spent at the computer.

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© 2016 Thousand Word Images by Dustin Abbott

Having an incredible amount of reach allows you to do some unique things with a lens. Zooming in on the moon as it rises is one of them. In this shot I've shot the moon at 600mm and cropped in a little over 50%, meaning that this is more like 1300mm of reach. I've got some cool shots of the moon in full light, but I wanted to share this more moody shots where layers of clouds are drifting in front of the moon. I've given this shot a little bit of a faded look in Exposure X2 to enhance the mood. It was still very yellow at this point, and I've tried to preserve that here. You can see more images that I've taken with the lens here: bit.ly/2dU7diG or view my first look video here: bit.ly/2dn7bBP

Technical Information: Canon EOS 5D Mark IV + Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5.-6.3 DI VC USD G2, Processed in Adobe Lightroom CC, Photoshop CC, and Alien Skin Exposure X2 (use code "dustinabbott" to get 10% off)

Want to know more about me or make contact? Take a look at my website and find a lot of ways to connect

Sunbursts in the refractions are not enhanced. The lens flare & unsharp mask were done with GIMP.

Cosina 55mm @ f/1.2 + Reverse-mounted Pentax-M 50mm @ f/8

Small and smaller lenses for mobile phone

Another test shot with my Sony A7 ii and the Sony FE 90mm F2.8 Macro G OSS Lens.

Black and White

Monochrome

Letters or Numbers

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Also in: "Weekly Theme Challenge"

Explore No. 115 on 12th November 2016.

It seems like the Color-Solagon enlarging lenses are almost completely unknown, even among people very familiar with a wide range of enlarging lenses.

Thanks to a couple of helpful people here, as well as the wonderful help of the FOMU - Fotomuseum Antwerpen and its library, I was able to confirm that the Color-Solagon features a 6 elements in 4 groups plasmat design (similar to most of the Componon-S lenses from Schneider Kreuznach), but the only real source I‘ve seen is on the "Color Solagon II 60 mm", which was apparently sold with some of the Varioscop 35/44 enlargers! I wasn‘t able to find a single document on the 70, 80 or 90 mm variants unfortunately, but I‘d guess they were made for a different purpose - either for one of Agfa’s Minilab or some industrial application.

I was able to find some of the Color-Solagon lenses, but unfortunately most of them are in pretty bad shape with either haze, fungus or some mechanical damage, so it‘s impossible to judge the quality in their original state.

The "Color-Solagon DII 90 mm F 4.5" shown here is not mentioned anywhere on the internet as far as I could find at least... I think it might be very similar to the 80 mm variant though.

If you know more about it, or someone who could, I‘d really appreciate any help!

Shot with a Schneider Kreuznach "M-Claron 60 mm F 5.6" lens on a Canon EOS R5.

Airbus A321-251NX G-NEOT msn 8718 British Airways Riga International Airport RIX/EVRA Latvia Riga(RIX) - London(LHR)

This is my Micro Four Third lens collections. Focal length from 7mm to 200mm equivalent to 14mm to 400mm in 35mm terms. I believe the Lumix lenses is made of Leica glass

Still I am missing a telephoto macro lens and there is none available in this format. The only option is go to other brand such as Canon or Nikon or even legacy lens. Or I can opted for Sigma 105mm f2.8 from Four Third format which will give me a slow SAF capability

Setup:

3 white framed canvas - bought it very cheap from art shop

Slick Mini II tripod

Olympus E-P2

OM to Micro 4/3 adapter

Zuiko OM 50/1.4

Setup the 3 canvases one for the base, one for the background and one on the left as a reflector as the natural light is on the right.

Set the camera to Aperture Priority, ISO 400 mounted on a tripod.

Using the magnifying setting I magnify the focus area 10x and turn the focus ring manually until the image look sharp on the LCD and press the shutter button

Taken with Nikon d80 equipped with 18-55 lens and external flash. No editing.

AFTER YEARS of not getting a clear cut capture, always a reed in the way, bits of the wader missing, then saw ten snipes at once, and mostly in the open, was like having your birthday and Christmas all at once, now have so many images....25-28 cm in length.

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Good to see you visit, love reading your comments even when I get the bird identification hopelessly wrong........ Stay safe Tomx.

DUMPY ROBUST WADER, both legs and bill are relatively short and stout. In winter they normally form large flocks, a non-breeding visitor, breeds in the high Artic, think this lone one, did not follow the write up, always good to see, at Herne Bay Harbour , Kent.

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THANK YOU, for your visit, love those kind comments, so encouraging. Weekend almost upon us, Stay safe, God bless, keep a smile on your face, and love in your heart..... Tomx.

While waiting for the consult. I just love optics and lenses. All is good by the way.

Seaton Sluice/Blyth beach, Northumberland.

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Mamiya C330 S and Sekor 55mm f/4.5

Kodak Portra 160

Taken today. It was a bit misty with a little occasional sun.

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People seem to have much passion for scarce things than things with large quantity. The reason behind is very obvious. Scarce things are more precious and valuable. Leica has introduced many high quality lenses of little productions, which have attracted a lot of collectors. Summilux-M 35mm f/1.4 aspherical produced during 1989-1994 is one of the excellent representatives. As the production processes were very hard and complex, it had only a limited production of 2000 items. In spite of the bigger size, its optical design and the sharpness of photos are much more excellent than early Summilux-M 35mm f/1.4. Thus, it has been chased after by many collectors.

Leica has always been having a strict requirement on the optical design of lens. Summilux-M 35mm f/1.4 aspherical consists of construction of 9 elements in 5 groups with unique feature of two front and back concave outer surfaces. The lens contains two hand-polished aspherical surfaces. They are of the same polishing method used in Noctilux 50mm f/1.2 in year 1966. Noctilux 50mm f/1.2 is the first lens in the world produced with aspherical surfaces to improve the aberration problem of non-aspherical surfaces. However, the hand polishing method is very time consuming and difficult. It cannot guarantee success. Leica experienced a lot of failures without giving up. After a long period of six years, these 2000 excellent pieces were finally issued. Leica’s spirit makes this scarce lens more valuable.

人們為何對數量多的東西沒有太大的熱情，卻爭先追趕數量稀少的東西呢？這不就是因為稀少的東西來得更珍貴，來得更有價值。徠卡 (Leica) 生產了很多高質素，而出產量又十分少的鏡頭，吸引了很多收藏家的目光。在1989-1994年期間生產的Summilux-M 35mm f/1.4 aspherical (雙非)是其中的表表者。由於製作工序繁複，只限量生產了2000支便停產了。除外型較大外，無論是光學設計，還是相片的銳利度，都比前期的Summilux-M 35mm f/1.4出色，得到很多收藏家的青睞。

Leica一向對光學設計很講究，Summilux-M 35mm f/1.4 aspherical (雙非) 使用9片5組的鏡片，擁有前後兩個凹陷的表面鏡片，在當時是獨有的特徵。這支鏡頭包含兩片人工手磨的非球面鏡片，它們的打磨技術與1966年Noctilux 50mm f/1.2的非球面鏡片的打磨技術相似，Noctilux 50mm f/1.2是全世界首支使用非球面鏡片技術製造的鏡頭，改善了球面鏡片的像差問題。可是人工手磨非常耗時，製作難度高，不能百份百確保手磨的成品理想，經過多番失敗後，以長達6年的時間才成功完成這2000支優秀的鏡頭。Leica不斷嘗試，永不言敗的精神，更加增添了這支產量稀少的鏡頭的收藏價值。

HAMPTON / Nr HERNE BAY / KENT / U.K....................

CONSPICUOUS AND VOCAL winter visitors, have become more tolerant of human observers, astonishingly close views can often be obtained, best to sit fairly near, and they may move towards you slowly grazing on certain seaweeds, at the tide edge. It is at about (60cm) in length, the smallest goose in the region, almost exclusively coastal distribution.

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THANK YOU for your visit and time, your comment is very appreciated and find encouraging, so stay safe. ...........Tomx.

lens: Fujinon T 1:2.8 100mm

Old lighthouse lens at Portland Head Light museum.

Happy Sliders Sunday

thank you s. dawns for your kind words <33

anothaah one: kristinemay.tumblr.com/

Camera: Pentax Q7

Lens: Pentax DA 55-300mm HD WR via Pentax K-Q adapter (259mm-1410mm EQ 35mm)

Loupe: Kamerar QV-1

Flask: Metz 58 AF-1 + Better Beamer flash extender

Tripod and Head: Vanguard

If you look closely, you'll see the K-Q adapter mounting plate is reversed. That's so the Kamerar plate can be mounted there. The Kamerar plate is compatible with the Manfrotto 501PL plate and slides into my Manfrotto 701HDV fluid pan video head perfectly. Without this change, the Kamerar whn mounted directly to the Q sits too high.

One of these days I'll spring for a DA300+TC or wait to see if Pentax releases a new zoom soon. Until then, the DA55-300mm will do double duty as birding lens and smallish motorcycle travel long-zoom. I've already got some nice results from bits and pieces of this kit-still waiting to use the Better Beamer in real-life situations.

Taken with another 35mm prime lens and an extension tube.