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Any chance of posting bigger images? I'd love to see how sharp they look at original (or close to original) size.
 
sean000 said:
I'm a fan of artsy looking shots anyway. Sometimes I even monkey with my 20mm f/1.7 shots to make them look like they were taken with a cheaper lens!

These look great, and it's a nice little lens (if not a little funny looking).
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haha it does look a bit funny.
And i don't have to spend time adding vignetting in photoshop anymore LOL
 
All the EXIF data are available on my flickr stream:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=pentax25mmf1.4+unedited&w=16969182%40N03&s=int

re the camera/JPG settings.. hm.. i'm afraid every photo is different.

What i normally do is, I first adjust the WB to get the colour tone i want then I choose the film mode (normally dynamic/vivid/standard for this kind of shots) or the other way round

i would sometime play with contrast/saturation setting in the film mode a bit too

the i.exposure is normally off/low .. but for high contrast scenes i would turn it up to high

most of the settings are just adjusted when shooting.. so if i'm to reshoot the same photos again, i might end up with very different settings.
 
Ok you had you pseudo-smarty moment. Now please step back ;)
Tom K. said:
NuFonaut said:
Those are absolutely wonderful and great compositions. Thanks for sharing!

I know this thread is about the lens and your great talent but it would be nice if you could share your jpeg-settings, since you wrote those were all out of cam :)
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What would be the point of sharing his settings? Would it make the pictures look any better, or more artistic? Is anyone going to go to the exact places he took the pictures and try to duplicate them? Isn’t part of the fun finding out for yourself what works, and what doesn’t?

I’m on a similar journey with my GH1, a couple of legacy Olympus OM lenses, and a cheap OM-u4/3 adapter from eBay. I get a kick out of twisting the aperture ring from f2.2 to f22 and watching the depth of field change in real time in the EVF.

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What´s that noise?

From one of the Canon Forums:

'I just came back from my first holiday with the 5D II (I think my wife was there as well). '
 
Some of these are excellent. No doubt about it. It is not the machine it is the man that makes it go!
 
Legacy manual lenses are great on the u4/3 format. It is the u4/3 secret weapon.
 
Wow! Excellent work. I enjoy this set very much, and agree with you that technical excellence is far less important than having fun doing photography.

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Panasonic G1, Canon S90
 
I got the lens from B&H:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/546271-REG/Pentax_C22525KP_C22525KP_1_C_Mount.html

it was backorder (they say it's not a regularly stock order) so i waited about 1 week for them to restock.. then another week or so to receive it.

and the converter from this ebay seller:
cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&it em=280497571509

I received it on same day i receive the lens (i think I ordered it on the same day or 1-2 day later)
hindesite said:
PhotoByRichard said:
yeap i'm from Auckland :)
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Thought so, I'm in Wellington - what was the delivery time and cost for the lens?

Assume that is the 1"" version; also, what C-m4/3 adapter did you use?
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would love to see more in the future, love to see photos which make me want to try new style each day. such a good job you did
 
Nice pictures. Be careful, though... C-Mount lenses are addictive. I bought into the m43rds system to get away from the bulk of carrying a dSLR around... now I've accumulated so many c-mount lenses of various sizes and shapes that I'm back to lugging a bag full of them!
 
Nice images. For me it's all about the small form factor and what you can get out of it... as you did. Really nice work.
 
I'm stopping by here to say your thread was the most brilliant and inspiring thing I've seen around here in a long time. And in an instant reminded me what attracted me to the EP-1 (and m4/3 in general) last year. Since then I've convinced myself that my Olympus E-620 is all I need and invested in a few more lenses for it (and don't regret that for a second). But your pictures and write-up just made me snap. I really get what you mean by "Technically Awful but Artistically Awesome" and I have often been guilty of adding effects to imitate 'flawed' optics in my PP work. There is nothing as boring as perfection. Not the way I want to go with the images I take at all.

So now I'm sitting here, brand new EP-1 in hand, and intend to use it with a few old manual focus lenses I have yet to hunt down. I'll surely be taking a long look at that little Pentax lens of yours. My DSLR will stay with me but for very different uses and needs.

Great pictures and a really inspirational post. It just oozes of creativity and plain old fun. Cheers.
 
I'm glad you showed the lens next to a battery and mounted on the cam. Can't believe how small it is! And it helped you capture some really nice photos!
 
i was trying to take some portraits using this lens.. unfortunately the only model i have is my 20 month old daughter, which proved to be a bit tricky to shoot with manual focus at large aperture because she just doesn't stop for one single second.
 
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