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Link to FULL Video of this shoot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQKqj4W0QWI
Here is the final image from this shot:
El cañón del Duero, en los arribes zamoranos, forman frontera natural con Portugal.
Villardiegua de la Ribera (Zamora)
Traded in a few bits and pieces and bought an R7. My first mirrorless camera. These are the first couple of shots taken with it. Plenty more to come
If I mention that there's a Canon 50 mm lens I really like and let you guess which one, I think you probably won't think of this one first... or at all... ever. Because if there's one lens that fits the definition of forgotten ugly duckling among the impressive array of lenses Canon produced over the decades, it has to be this one.
The "Canon Lens E 50 mm F 3.5" is an enlarging lens unlike any other under that umbrella, at least in appearance. Inside it's a basic 4 elements in 3 groups design - and sometimes called a Tessar online - even though I'm not sure that definition still applies when the diaphragm is in a different place... you tell me!
The look is certainly very unique, mainly because of the transparent plastic ring on the front of the lens which consists of two elements, the outer one having aperture values on them, the inner one a marker. The latter one moves with the aperture ring, providing a way to read the aperture value in a darkroom.
Because I decided (in a genius moment) I would shoot this lens with a fast fixed aperture projection lens you can't see the whole thing, but I'll add a link to another simple shot in the comments.
All that aside, it's not considered a great lens, not even a good one and to my knowledge it never was. So I was pleasantly surprised when I tried it. I learned to never underestimage Tessars before and this is a very good one in my book. If you want, take a look at the album and let me know if you agree.
Shot with a Rollei "AV-Apogon HFT 90 mm F 2.4" (projection) lens on a Canon EOS R5.