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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
1:200 scale model of Saudi Arabian Boeing 747-400 by Herpa. Full frontal with focus on the engines. Yeah, I love the engines, totally!
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
The Beat Book Shop, Boulder, CO | www.beatbookshop.com
Nikon FE 35mm film | Nikkor 50mm 1.4 AiS manual focus | Fujifilm Superia 800X
Carl Zeiss Jena DDR MC Sonnar 180mm/f2.8 (Pentacon Six mount = P6 mount) + extension tube 15mm, manual focus
Caméra Sony SLT-A77V + Minolta TC x2 II + Minolta 400/4.5 G APO HS, trépied, télécommande. Manual Focus.
Exposition 0,002 sec (1/500)
Ouverture f/9.0
Longueur focale 800 mm
Focal Length (35mm format) 1200 mm
Vitesse ISO 1000
Détection du degré d'exposition +0.3 EV
I replaced my heavy Leica 90mm f/2 APO Summicron-M lens with the lighter, less expensive and equally sharp, and eminently more usable Voigtlander 90mm f/2.8 Apo Skopar a couple of years ago. The max aperture of f/2.8 is obviously the one thing lacking in this lens, but that is the price to pay for compactness and less weight. Apart from that, this is a world-class lens.
Fortunately, my copy of the CV 90 lens works very well with the rangefinder coupling in my M11 camera. For critical focusing, especially in low light, the EVF certainly helps. But most of the time I can focus with just the rangefinder, which is how I try to use this lens as much as possible.
24-1017 Gen-0019 (Leica M11, CV90F2.8)
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.
the boy's school had a skate night and it wasn't until the very end that I realized I had my FM2n in the car. So the old girl got broken out. shot with the fantastic 85mm f/2 manual focus lens. this is pretty much "soc" if you can say that about film, gotta love kodak portra. just a little rotation to get it square.
Finally managed to win an auction for an old manual focus Vivitar Series 1 135mm f2.3, so I wanted to test with poorly lit, high action taekwondo. I mounted on my old Canon EOS M, since I could not find the MD to E-mount adapter. While these pictures are nothing special, I was very impressed with the old lens, and I cannot wait to test more thoroughly.
I am still trying to decide what is the absolute best 135mm with aperture of f2.8 or better for less than $200. I am using the old Canon FD 135mm f2.0 as my benchmark for comparison.
The Avett Brothers
Burruss Hall, Virginia Tech, Sept. 11, 2015
manual focus legacy lens: OM Zuiko 85mm 1:2
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.
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.