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A Taste of Haiti. 3rd edition food festival in North Miami. Manual focus. Sony a6000 with Pentax Takumar 135mm f1:2.5
This week: Disable AF and strictly focus manually. This gives back a "artisanal" element to the composition process, especially when playing with depth of field in close-up moments.
The album can be found here: 2021 | 52 projects.
(Wien/Börseplatz)
Luna creciente del 1 de abril, fotografiada, por primera vez, a través de mi Maksutov Skywatcher 102/1300 F:12. Modo Manual #ManualFocus #MF
Manual focus Yashica ML 55mm Macro f2.8 at F11 on a Olympus E-330 using a C/Y adapter Straight out of camera
This is the first manually-focused photograph that I have taken in many years.
And — wow — look how the camera performed!
The Leica AG M9, you see, does not even have an auto-focus. Even if you wanted it. Instead, a small prism in the center of the viewfinder displays one small rectangle of the image from off-axis. When you are out of focus, the rectangle shows some other part of the image. But as you bring it into focus, you pull that tiny rectangle of image in closer to the position of everything else in the field of view — and when the alignment is perfect, the image is in focus.
I was not even really supposed to take this picture. Kenneth handed me the camera, I studiously examined its sheer mass and craftsmanship, and then I brought it up to my eye as someone else briefly distracted him. The camera's physical response to my pressing the button was so solid, the response so vivid, that I felt a moment of surprised fear that maybe this was a film camera and I had just wasted a real, irreversible shot — but, no, there was the label proclaiming it a digital!
The final surprise is that even simply editing the image felt quite different — the way its color and texture responded as I brightened and processed it was far smoother and more forgiving than in the shots that I get from my Nikon D80.
All of which leaves me pondering whether this means that I need more time with a Leica.
Kenneth and I were at DjangoCon, a conference for programmers last week in the capitol. He is a rising star in the community whose talks are in demand and whose modules are very widely used by everyone else in the community.
The jewelry I wore last night, piled on my desk, photo taken with an old prime lens/"fast" lens, Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 AI. I purchased the lens at the Fort Myer Thrift Shop for less than $10. When using this lens I set the f-stop on the lens, use manual focus, manually adjust the ISO and shutter speed on the camera as needed. Considering these lenses still sell for $300+ new or around $100 used, I think I found a great deal!
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