This month through your adapted lenses -- July 2019

Alan WF · Jul 1, 2019

An invitation to all members to dust off your precious glass and head out to take some pictures: the real reason for the existence of all those lenses in the first place.

Please post here your select efforts with adapted lenses.

Here are the guidelines

Images with a removable adapter between lens and camera
Images with the lens mount permanently modified to fit a different camera
Images with the lens held by hand without an adapter (freelensing)

Including metadata (camera, lens, aperture, shutter speed) is encouraged but not required.

Alan WF · Jul 1, 2019

I was at my home-from-home again last week, the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir in Baja California, and took these from an outcrop looking east towards the Gulf of California.

Sony a6000 with Zhongyi Lens Turbo II and Canon New FD28-85mm f/4 at 28 mm, f/16, 1/125, and ISO 100.

M_digicapt · Jul 2, 2019

Wonderful images, really like the way you process them. Thanks for sharing.

Miara · Jul 2, 2019

Spider web with Zeiss Sonnar 50mm 1.5

kickoff3pm · Jul 2, 2019

Last month I showed this lens on Fujifilm X-T10 this month I show versatility of it on my Canon 60D

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Tom_A · Jul 2, 2019

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moedius · Jul 2, 2019

are no longer cool and pleasant. It's hot and sticky out.

Tokina ATX 100-300/4 w\A7ii. Wide open, it's fairly glowy here.

Tokina ATX 100-300/4 w\A7ii. Much better stopped down to 5.6+. I believe it's @f8 in this one.

Tokina ATX 100-300/4 w\A7ii. I'm surprised it didn't flare or veil more as I'm facing the sun without a hood. It's close to midday though so the angle is steep.

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ProfHankD · Jul 2, 2019

It's a hot, sunny, day, and seemed a good time for a walk through the University of Kentucky's Arboretum. The topic of Mamiya/Sekor fast fifties came up over the last few days, so I figured I'd limit myself to just the 55mm f/1.4 on my A7RII. It honestly didn't feel very limiting, although I did find myself needing to carefully place my left hand to block flare in some cases. Anyway, here are some minimally tweaked OOC JPEGs from this morning's walk:

I really like this one... a completely unedited OOC JPEG

Wide open @ f/1.4, OOF PSF has a thin bright edge... which I sometimes find distracting

f/1.4 bokeh are ok here

Around f/2-2.8 bokeh are much smoother than @ f/1.4

More proof that bokeh get much smoother one click down

Really great sharpness @ f/5.6 ; really couldn't be better

Portrait of a bird

There didn't happen to be a lot of red in the Arboretum today... which is a pitty because reds get nicely intense with this lens.... Still, it was very pleasant using this fast fifty and I didn't feel all that limited by bringing just one lens. It's a good thing to do every so often.

Eyeteeth · Jul 2, 2019

Stag | Fujifilm XT-2 | Pentacon auto 1,8/50 | helicoid adaptor

Rush | Fujifilm XT-2 | Meyer Optik Görlitz 1Q Orestor 4/300

Chaplain Mark · Jul 2, 2019

Very, very lovely shots..!!

The middle one is my favorite.

Chaplain Mark · Jul 2, 2019

Miara said:
Spider web with Zeiss Sonnar 50mm 1.5

Very nice, love the vignetting…!!

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Alan WF · Jul 2, 2019

M_digicapt said:
Wonderful images, really like the way you process them. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks. Shadows +30, Whites +50, Blacks -10, Clarity +20, Dehaze +20 (there was some humidity at lower levels), Vibrance +20, Saturation +5, and Sharpening Amount +50.

Regards,

Alan

Alan WF · Jul 2, 2019

Chaplain Mark said:
Very, very lovely shots..!!

The middle one is my favorite.

Thanks. I like each of them differently, the first for the colors of the rocks, the second for the leading lines, and the last one for the trees in the foreground. I only had a few seconds to compose these, as I was with my kids close to cliffs that fall hundreds of meters, but I'm fairly happy with how they turned out.

Regards,

Alan

Alan WF · Jul 2, 2019

This is superb! It's like a dream.

Regards,

Alan

Alan WF · Jul 2, 2019

Very nice. Perhaps a slightly closer square crop might give more intimacy?

Regards,

Alan

M_digicapt · Jul 2, 2019

Alan WF said:
Alan WF said:

Wonderful images, really like the way you process them. Thanks for sharing.

Click to expand...

Thanks. Shadows +30, Whites +50, Blacks -10, Clarity +20, Dehaze +20 (there was some humidity at lower levels), Vibrance +20, Saturation +5, and Sharpening Amount +50.

Regards,

Alan

Thanks

I'll give these settings a try.

Serge 07 · Jul 3, 2019

Hi, everyone:

Took these from the Staten Island Ferry.

Fuji X-E1:

Looks like fun:

Cruising by Governors Island with Brooklyn in the background.

Regards,

Serge

Sjak · Jul 3, 2019

Sjak · Jul 3, 2019

@ f/5.6

Not completely sure about the crop on this one... all I did was a slight rotate to try and get the vertical lines vertical, but maybe removing a bit on the foreground or on the top could be nice? Suggestions for welcome

Chaplain Mark · Jul 3, 2019

ProfHankD said:
It's a hot, sunny, day, and seemed a good time for a walk through the University of Kentucky's Arboretum. The topic of Mamiya/Sekor fast fifties came up over the last few days, so I figured I'd limit myself to just the 55mm f/1.4 on my A7RII. It honestly didn't feel very limiting, although I did find myself needing to carefully place my left hand to block flare in some cases. Anyway, here are some minimally tweaked OOC JPEGs from this morning's walk:

I really like this one... a completely unedited OOC JPEG

Wide open @ f/1.4, OOF PSF has a thin bright edge... which I sometimes find distracting

f/1.4 bokeh are ok here

Around f/2-2.8 bokeh are much smoother than @ f/1.4

More proof that bokeh get much smoother one click down

Really great sharpness @ f/5.6 ; really couldn't be better

Portrait of a bird

There didn't happen to be a lot of red in the Arboretum today... which is a pitty because reds get nicely intense with this lens.... Still, it was very pleasant using this fast fifty and I didn't feel all that limited by bringing just one lens. It's a good thing to do every so often.

These are really very nice..!!

I love my Mamiya Sekor 55mm f1.8....the color rendering and contrast just seem to put a bit of magic into every shot.

Not as fast as your f1.4 of course, but it is to date, my fave everyday carry lens.

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Thank You,
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'Tis better to have a camera and not need one than to need a camera and not have one.
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In pursuit of photographic excellence.

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