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Few more with Sonnar 50mm f2. I took similar phjotos with Biotar week or so ago, so it may be interesting comparison.
Few more with Sonnar 50mm f2. I took similar phjotos with Biotar week or so ago, so it may be interesting comparison.
Lens from rangefinder Leica clone Leotax camera. IQ is not that strong as similar Topcor-S lens, but the bokeh is one of the wildest (if not the wildest) and the one of the most beautiful I saw with 50mm.
Normally these flowers come up in big clumps with many stalks of small purple orbs. But this one was all by itself with no friends.
Another shot using the Konishiroku (Konica) Hexanon 47mm f1.9 rangefinder lens.
This lens has quite the range of what it can do. But the one consistent attribute is how sharp it can be. To say nothing of the colors it can capture.
Again, all this from a 1962, $100, Rangefinder camera. No wonder Konica went on to produce even more wonderful lenses.
Lens from rangefinder Leica clone Leotax camera. IQ is not that strong as similar Topcor-S lens, but the bokeh is one of the wildest (if not the wildest) and the one of the most beautiful I saw with 50mm.
Color-Yashinbon DX 35mm f1,8. One of the lenses I use very rarely. It is salvaged from Yashica Electro 35 CC, Has only two blades in iriis bizzarely shaped. However, it is fast for vintage 35mm lens with ok sharpness and bokeh.
It has very short flange distance and it was not that easy to addapt it. Than I have to use its original helicoid wich is partially removed . Anyway not a pleasant experience, But I like images.
Just opened a package and took few shots with this oldy. Wide open is soft. It is usable at f4-5.6. Even closed a bit it produces lovely bokeh as seen here.
Its still early Spring here in Colorado and the raspberries are only now starting to form buds.
These buds are very small. Maybe 3-4mm across. I had to use 50mm of extension helicoids and a close focusing, Mansfield Mantinar 40/2.8 @f8 to capture this image.
HMM!
Adelaide, Peter Maynard, Life in Shadows, Panasonic DMC-GX7, Cumbia Bar and Kitchen, Olympus 75mm f1.8, Rangefinder lens.
Danube river, Belgrade. The most simple scenery captured with a humble Helios 103 53mm F1.8 lens (which is part of my family longer than I am).
Adelaide, Peter Maynard, Life in Shadows, Panasonic DMC-GX7, Nikkor 105mm f2.5, Rangefinder lens, Processed with Nik Plugins,
Just opened a package and took few shots with oldy. Wide open is soft. It is usable at f4-5.6. Even closed a bit it produces lovely bokeh as seen here. Specially when it is put on focusing helicoid and got it closer than 1m MFD.
Fuji X-Pro2/Yashica Yashinon-DX 45mmF1.7
I have been a big fan of the Fuji X series since I got my hands on an X100 when it came out. Having moved on to the X-Pro1 and now the X-Pro2 I can honestly say I get more excited slapping on old rangefinder lenses than I do about the Fuji X line of lenses.
Back in 2008/9 when I rediscovered film, one of the first cameras I bought was the venerable Yashica Electro 35. I went on to buy a few of these clunky beauties. It was a fixed lens job and attached to the front was the Yashinon-DX 45mmF1.7
Converting one of these old Yashica lenses, is, in the right hands a relatively simple task but beyond my skills or patience.
Imagine my excitement then, when one popped up on ebay!
What happens when light strikes formed and polished glass makes up a good portion of my fascination for photographic lenses. Here I was experimenting with a Zeiss Sonnar from the 1930s, a very fast standard lens for the legendary Contax range-finder camera. This is an extremely tight crop from a much larger shot where I had set the focus on a glass jug. I hope you like the resulting somewhat abstract image!
Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 1:1.5 f=5cm
Camdiox focussing adapter
Sony a7C