April 2020 Part 2 -- This Month Through Your Adapted Lens

Photodog2 said:

Very nice. Terrific use of a macro. Did you prefocus?

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Yes. The Irix lens is manual focus only. All my bif photos are acquired using mf. On M43 body 150MM is 300MM full frame equivalent

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Lawrence -M-
"Its not the chicken, its the Chef."
"I can show you better than I can tell you."

So beautiful. Zuiko lenses are rated generally as good or very good. But few use them and they excel when actually use for photos, not just tests. I have a gripe with testing because it leaves so much uncharacterized. It’s like testing %proteins but not how the chicken is fed and raised. When I taste the chicken and learn to differentiate how it’s fed and produced, and corroborate with how I feel/digestion and taste, then I know the test may be right but was the wrong metric.

The May thread has just started; please post there.

(I know it's not May, but it's the last day of April in most of the world and this thread is almost full.)

Beautiful. It's also pretty amazing technically to get a small bird in flight like that, especially with a manual-focus lens equivalent to 300 mm. Congratulations!

Regards,

Alan

So peaceful. I love the gradual fade in focus, from the rock, to the reed stalks on the left, and then in the wood behind.

Regards,

Alan

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This is one of the few lenses from my own analog past, must be close to 40 years old now, and I found it surprisingly good on digital, too. Unfortunately, the front part of the barrel (in front of the focus ring) has loosened somehow, so that it rotates, and, while it does, changes the aperture a bit, too.