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this lens captures an amazing level of detail and it's the kit lens for the E-PL2
French air force, Airbus A330 MRTT.
Bastille day airshow 2018.
Nikon D300 with Nikkor 400mm f/5.6 ED Ais without tripod.
Old lens Индустар-50-2 Industar 3,5/50 Manual focus.
No photoshop, just standard editing. I love experimenting with old lenses.
These three pictures were my first experiments with bokeh. I never knew how to do it until I was doing manual focus tonight, I am obsessed now. Tell me what you think, and how to improve it PLEASE! :) NO PHOTOSHOP HERE! :) You can also see the records on my wall, I just put them up today.
Captured with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II and Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 IF ED UMC lens.
Test Setup:
After running around the office looking for good lines to shoot and coming up short most of the time I came to the realization that the perfect test subject was right above my head the whole time :)
A Canon EOS 5D Mark II was used on a tripod sitting on a desk with the camera pointed perpendicular to the ceiling. Mirror lock-up was used and manual focus with LV 10X was used to achieve critical focus at center of frame. Distance from the camera to the ceiling was ~ 6 feet.
ISO 100, f/2.8, distortion-corrected in LR3, no other adjustments, exported to jpeg.
Distortion-corrected using this Adobe lens profile.
K10D with battery grip, Rikenon XR 28mm f2.8 (mounted), Pentax SMC-M 50mm f1.7, 100mm f4 macro, 200mm f4. Lowepro Orion Trekker II.
This truly is a "hobby" kit. A seriously spec-ed camera with high quality lenses but at a very bargain basement price. If I am shooting pictures for "serious" reasons, such as the wedding we just shot, I use the AF lenses for their speed and accuracy. Also these lenses are so old they do not allow auto exposure either, they must be metered manually (shades of the K1000).
Matt now has the K10D with the 28 and 50 shown here as well as a Rikenon 135mm f2.8. He used it alot until the iPhone came along.
4/15/16 2:25 PM
This is neat stuff if you are beyond auto mode in photography. To be ready for tomorrow I always check my memory cards and have spent a day or two charging batteries. Rather than random shooting tomorrow I need to get at least 6 good shots. Now you might think that is easy but a great photographer can take 2,000 and get one good shot. Old school photographers are used to paying a minimum of 2 bucks a piece if they developed their own film. That was with bulk loaders etc. So you would go to an event like East Bend with maybe three rolls of high speed film usually that was 108 shots unless you were backed by a newspaper and had a bulk roll and motor drive. You have spent 200 bucks if you sent them off or one long night in the dark room if you wanted your shots in the morning paper. Some of us in the group are learning photography as well as interested in Motocross. So there are sure shots and then creative shots. Photographers shooting racing can’t resist creative shots. So just within ten minutes I shot a quick example of creative vs standard. I only gave myself a quick shot. Not one where I could follow you across the track. Like I had a piece of jump I covered and couldn’t watch for a distance. I pick a focus point and hold the lock focus button even if I am on manual because Auto Focus is too slow for you guys. Shots can be called pan shots where the shutter speed is slow. The object is followed and it blurs the background. I nailed the plate on the car in a pan and blurred the woods. That car was doing 60 easy. The guys in the truck were shot with a higher shutter speed. The woods aren’t blurred as much. It was a pan shot. A photographer would say it was a hand held pan. Using a Tripod would be better but with a long lens it takes practice to do it hand held. The best can do a thing called zoom pan. It blurs the background and kind of sucks you into the photo. So I’ll mix things up a lot. I do know though that I am intentionally shooting with a higher depth of field because in a cropped shot if you are in the way background you might still want that shot even if you are a bit out of focus. You will learn to spot these things after awhile. There may be a test! And tomorrow when you are racing concentrate on the race and not hot dogging for the camera. After my initial experiment I will try to include as many as I can.
So -- I was looking through my camera bag wondering which old manual focus lenses to sell. I thought I needed to experiment with them in the back garden first. Turns out, I like most of them :)
Sigma sd Quattro, Cosinia Cosinon-S 50mm f2
Captured with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II and Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 IF ED UMC lens.
Test Setup:
After running around the office looking for good lines to shoot and coming up short most of the time I came to the realization that the perfect test subject was right above my head the whole time :)
A Canon EOS 5D Mark II was used on a tripod sitting on a desk with the camera pointed perpendicular to the ceiling. Mirror lock-up was used and manual focus with LV 10X was used to achieve critical focus at center of frame. Distance from the camera to the ceiling was ~ 6 feet.
ISO 100, f/8, distortion-corrected in LR3, no other adjustments, exported to jpeg.
Distortion-corrected using this Adobe lens profile.
Photos of the 2016 Illuminate Irving Toro Nagashi Ceremony. Shot with a Canon 6D and a Komine-made Vivitar 200mm f/3.5 manual focus lens.
Reggio Emilia, chiostro dei Musei Civici, Twins Quintet, Rosanna Bellei singer • D700 + Zeiss 180mm f2.8 C/Y manual focus
Rudolf Perešin (March 25, 1958 – May 2, 1995) was a Croatian fighter pilot in the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) who defected from Željava Air Base to Klagenfurt, Austria in 1991, during a reconnaissance flight because he wanted to help his homeland Croatia during the Croatian War of Independence. He was the first pilot to desert from the JNA. He was shot down in 1995 by Serbian Krajina military forces resulting in his death. More on Wikipedia.
Each year, a memorial airshow is held in Gornja Stubica, Croatia, Perišin's hometown.
Taken with Pentax K20D, Sears Mod.202 135mm F2.8 manual-focus telephoto lens, May 2014.
Cub Scout Pack 562: Round Rock, TX – Pack Meeting Sept. 2011
Captured with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II and Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 IF ED UMC lens.
Distortion-corrected using this Adobe lens profile.
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Nikon E- Series manual focus, 28mm 2.8 lens mounted on a glass adapter meant for APS-C sensor, on a SONY A7R. set on crop mode. Less than 36 mega pixel.
The glass adapter buys an F- stop of light, and makes it a 28mm lens again.
JPG's out of camera, with slight tweaking in SONY software.
First evening playing with the Sony Alpha 7 Mark II.
Taken with my old Konica Hexanon 40mm f/1.8 lens set at f/2.8, manually focused, and focal length manually entered into the camera for limited image stabilization to work. The lens performed much better with this camera than with the NEX6 last week.
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This hopefully is a video to aid those that are having a few issues with using Manual focus with the SX40 and other Canon Powershot cameras. As people on these Canon groups know I bang on that it is the best way to get macro shots esp and hopefully this goes some way to help to understand how to use it. Not the best quality vid but can't do much with the MB situation. Better quality on my youtube channel www.youtube.com/user/NightShooter87/videos