Nikon 50/1.2

Tamron SP 350mm F8 Mirror Lens

This is Donges petroleum plant by night with my 500 mm mirror lens. i was aiming to play a bit with donut bokeh.

Male Red Bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus) at suet feeder. Shot with a Canon EOS R6 Mark II and Canon FD Reflex 500mm f/8 manual focus telephoto lens.

Model: Cathy Ma

Photographer: Rachelle Vance

Location: Balboa Park, CA

OPTEKA Mirror Lens, 500mm, f8.0

I like it because of the color shift, soft focus, romance, intended softness, flare, and donut bokeh effect~

I took the 500mm mirror lens on an outing today. It is a monster of a thing to hand hold and focus; and it can result in lost shots because of its big zoom. But I love it. My rule today, as always, with this lens is no cropping.

Nikon 1000mm on Dx

Slightly contrasted with Ps

With no crop from original file.

Donut bokeh of a different sort. Haha. My nephew's beach birthday party yesterday.

BTW, he won the contest.

Another shot with the new Tamron Adaptal SP 500mm f/8 Model 55BB. I'm really enjoying this lens. The Bokeh will take some getting used to. Its not terrible though.

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Contax RTS / Rubinar 300mm f4,5 makro (M42 adapter)

Kodak Colorplus 200

Marzo 2014

First shots with a new toy: Tamron SP 500/8 mirror lens.

My conclusions: it gives soft images with poor contrast most of the times but sharpening and adjusting curves in post-processing helps a lot. Nice to play with under extremely bright sunlight when the other lenses give too strong contrast. So the verdict is, it stays.

First shots with my new toy: Tamron SP 500/8 mirror lens.

My conclusions: it gives smooth shots with poor contrast most of the times but sharpening and adjusting curves helps a lot. Nice to play with under extremely bright sunlight when the other lenses give too strong contrast. So the verdict is, it stays.

Nikon 1000mm on Dx

Slightly contrasted with Ps

With no crop from original file.

First shots with a new toy: Tamron SP 500/8 mirror lens.

My conclusions: it gives soft images with poor contrast most of the times but sharpening and adjusting curves in post-processing helps a lot. Nice to play with under extremely bright sunlight when the other lenses give too strong contrast. So the verdict is, it stays.

Fun with the lights at the top of the excalator leading to JoJo's. I was on the street taking this shot using the Cat lens on the 7D hence the donut bokeh.

Test shot on my tiny GF 7. Handheld. First time handling a mirror lens. This one seems really cool although its in pretty bad shape. Have to try it on the GX80 with ibis

Olympus OM-D E-M1, LZOS MC MTO-11CA 1000mm f10 catadioptric lens

This is what you can get when using a mirror lens: donut bokeh all over the place.

First shots with a new toy: Tamron SP 500/8 mirror lens.

My conclusions: it gives soft images with poor contrast most of the times but sharpening and adjusting curves in post-processing helps a lot. Nice to play with under extremely bright sunlight when the other lenses give too strong contrast. So the verdict is, it stays.

La mer. Ta mère. Les vagues. L'écume. Mes cuisses. L'émoi. Le bruit. L'absence. Les larmes. La mer.

Nikon D700 | Tamron Adaptall BBAR 500/8 SP | ISO 1600

Check her shirt.

I recently got a T2 adapter for an old 500mm/f8 mirror lens I've had sitting around. These aren't known for being very sharp and mine definitely isn't. Even with a tripod, careful focusing, and mirror lockup, this required a lot of selective sharpening. (I used a highpass/overlay layer and four layers of unsharp mask with successively greater radii coupled with successively lower opacity.) The sharpness issue is a bummer, but I like the donut bokeh.

Nikon D700 | Tamron Adaptall BBAR 500/8 SP | ISO 1600

Spiratone Minitel-M Plura-Coat 500mm F8 Catadioptric lens.

Sample image.

NDP NE2

Taken with the 500mm Mirror, MF

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