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Here's fun! Tokina 500mm on GX7

Started Jun 1, 2015 | Photos thread
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Hen3ry
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Here's fun! Tokina 500mm on GX7
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I've woken up going on for 5am and can't go back to sleep again, so I have brought together the used Tokina 500mm mirror lens with Pentax screw mount and the cheap m42/m43 adapter I bought on eBay, and the GX7 for a first, silly test.

Having set the camera on manual and been told by the camera that the lens is not recognized and to turn on "shoot without lens" in the Custom menu, I focus on the keys of a keyboard 3.6 meters (12 feet) away across the room and fire off a single shot with the pop-up flash.

It is under exposed but not disastrously so.

Here is the result after a bit of lightening in PP:

@ 100% A bit iffy! 800 ISO

Just ordinary magnification. Looks okay. 800 ISO.

Conclusion? Ridiculous, but it will be okay for e.g. surfing pix to show on websites. Maybe. We'll see!

I'll get outside when it is properly light in about three hours.

Can't see a lot of BIF happening, though!

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Geoffrey Heard
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