December 2020 Part 2 — This Month Through Your Adapted Lens

Alan WF · Dec 21, 2020

An invitation 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.

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.

Comments are encouraged, but please keep them friendly and constructive.

Alan WF · Dec 21, 2020

I’ll be celebrating the New Year at a cabin in the mountains without Internet and without mobile phone service. Can someone please start the January thread at the appropriate moment? Thanks.

Regards,

Alan

Alan WF · Dec 21, 2020

These were taken at an urban park with a lake. I was watching a grey heron preening in a tree in the late afternoon before settling down for the night, when all of a sudden a flock of about one hundred cattle egrets flew in with the same idea.

Regards,

Alan

Grey Heron with Cattle Egrets. Sony a6000 with Metabones EF-E Smart Adapter (Mk IV) and Canon EF-S 55-250 mm f/4-5.6 IS STM at 250 mm, f/8, 1/640 second, and ISO 100.

Cattle Egret. Sony a6000 with Metabones EF-E Smart Adapter (Mk IV) and Canon EF-S 55-250 mm f/4-5.6 IS STM at 250 mm (cropped to 375 mm), f/8, 1/400 second, and ISO 125.

Cattle Egrets. Sony a6000 with Metabones EF-E Smart Adapter (Mk IV) and Canon EF-S 55-250 mm f/4-5.6 IS STM at 250 mm, f/8, 1/400 second, and ISO 160.

fferreres · Dec 21, 2020

Alan WF said:
I’ll be celebrating the New Year at a cabin in the mountains without Internet and without mobile phone service. Can someone please start the January thread at the appropriate moment? Thanks.

Regards,

Alan

That's so nice. Wht about creating it ahead of time, and we just link to it (ie. the Post No New Photos and use this thread). That way, it's consistent. I think I will remember to link, but may forget to create the new one. Someone else may be a lot more organized than I am though.

Alan WF · Dec 21, 2020

fferreres said:
Alan WF said:

I’ll be celebrating the New Year at a cabin in the mountains without Internet and without mobile phone service. Can someone please start the January thread at the appropriate moment? Thanks.

Regards,

Alan

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That's so nice. Wht about creating it ahead of time, and we just link to it (ie. the Post No New Photos and use this thread). That way, it's consistent. I think I will remember to link, but may forget to create the new one. Someone else may be a lot more organized than I am though.

Thanks for that suggestion. I’ll create it before I leave.

Regards,

Alan

Travis Butler · Dec 21, 2020

Pen-F, Tamron 500/8 55BB

Saturn's rings are visible if you look closely, and the larger Jovian moons are visible as specks...

Moons are more visible here, but the rings become a blur.

And figured I'd get the moon while I was set up.

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Flickr at https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_prof67/ Warning: Heavy Learning in progress.

Alan WF · Dec 22, 2020

More from my window, this time a pair of house finches (pinzones mexicanos or Haemorhous mexicanus).

Regards,

Alan

Sony a6000 with Metabones EF-E Smart Adapter (Mk IV) and Canon EF-S 55-250 mm f/4-5.6 IS STM at 250 mm, f/5.6, 1/500 second, and ISO 400.

Sony a6000 with Metabones EF-E Smart Adapter (Mk IV) and Canon EF-S 55-250 mm f/4-5.6 IS STM at 250 mm, f/5.6, 1/500 second, and ISO 640.

fferreres · Dec 22, 2020

Alan WF said:
More from my window, this time a pair of house finches (pinzones mexicanos or Haemorhous mexicanus).

Regards,

Alan

Sony a6000 with Metabones EF-E Smart Adapter (Mk IV) and Canon EF-S 55-250 mm f/4-5.6 at 250 mm, f/5.6, 1/500 second, and ISO 400.

Sony a6000 with Metabones EF-E Smart Adapter (Mk IV) and Canon EF-S 55-250 mm f/4-5.6 at 250 mm, f/5.6, 1/500 second, and ISO 640.

These are lovely pics. They appear to be those ultra detailed drawing, like someone imagined the bird like that for artistic purposes. Pretty amazing what that non L zoom can do.

M_digicapt · Dec 23, 2020

Alan WF said:
More from my window, this time a pair of house finches (pinzones mexicanos or Haemorhous mexicanus).

Regards,

Alan

This photo is spectacular.

You most have been really close...

Alan WF · Dec 23, 2020

M_digicapt said:
This photo is spectacular. You most have been really close...

Thank you. About three meters, I think. We put birdseed for them on the window ledge, and they wait in the tree outside the window until they get the confidence to feed. I think these photos really have convinced me that I need to get as close as I can to birds, one way or another, since I don’t think I’ll be able to get longer lens for a while yet.

M_digicapt said:
These are lovely pics. They appear to be those ultra detailed drawing, like someone imagined the bird like that for artistic purposes. Pretty amazing what that non L zoom can do.

Thank you, again. I noticed the detail after I finished processing, especially on the head of the male, and went back to the originals as I was worried I might have overdone it. I did apply a little bit of dehaze (to compensate for the window), global contrast (to make the subject stand out from the background), and a tiny bit of local contrast (clarity) on the subject. However, the detail in the final version is faithful to what I see in the original. It’s interesting what the light does to detail in feather too. The more direct light above brings out more detail than the indirect light from below.

Regards,

Alan

fferreres · Dec 23, 2020

It’s excellent. Looks as I said, imagined. Too good to happen casually. Keep feeding the same

The_WB · Dec 24, 2020

I shot this picture with an adapted 200MM Nikkor manual lens with a 2X teleconverter attached to my Canon Rebel T5 (1200D) giving me 640MM of coverage. This photo was heavily cropped.

Pushing 1 billions miles away, my setup was no match for a good telescope. Fun to try though.

fferreres · Dec 24, 2020

The_WB said:
I shot this picture with an adapted 200MM Nikkor manual lens with a 2X teleconverter attached to my Canon Rebel T5 (1200D) giving me 640MM of coverage. This photo was heavily cropped.

Pushing 1 billions miles away, my setup was no match for a good telescope. Fun to try though.

I was reading the news and also saw the new photos released by NASA. It reminded me of how misterio is and vast the universe is. But even shots like this allow us to see for ourselves, to confirm that indeed it’s not a hoax: we occupy close to 0% of the places in the cosmos.

Sjak · Dec 24, 2020

...at a restaurant, before everything was forced to close again...

14-10-2020, Blue Collar Hotel

Nokton 1.4/40

OK and since it's such a nice place, an earlier shot made with a native AF-lens, including a depiction of someone born on December 24th, considered a god by many

Tomasg71 · Dec 24, 2020

Lemmy looking at the customers in the last one

M_digicapt · Dec 24, 2020

Alan WF said:
Alan WF said:

This photo is spectacular. You most have been really close...

Click to expand...

Thank you. About three meters, I think. We put birdseed for them on the window ledge, and they wait in the tree outside the window until they get the confidence to feed. I think these photos really have convinced me that I need to get as close as I can to birds, one way or another, since I don’t think I’ll be able to get longer lens for a while yet.

Alan WF said:

These are lovely pics. They appear to be those ultra detailed drawing, like someone imagined the bird like that for artistic purposes. Pretty amazing what that non L zoom can do.

Click to expand...

Thank you, again. I noticed the detail after I finished processing, especially on the head of the male, and went back to the originals as I was worried I might have overdone it. I did apply a little bit of dehaze (to compensate for the window), global contrast (to make the subject stand out from the background), and a tiny bit of local contrast (clarity) on the subject. However, the detail in the final version is faithful to what I see in the original. It’s interesting what the light does to detail in feather too. The more direct light above brings out more detail than the indirect light from below.

Regards,

Alan

Thanks.

I've been using a small wireless speaker hanged from braches to play back recordings. Making sure there are no predators around. It works well. Rarely they get as close as 3m but 5-7m fairly often...

Alan WF · Dec 24, 2020

That clearly shows the rings of Saturn, which is quite a feat. I can’t see Saturn’s rings, Jupiter’s moons, or the phases of Venus without thinking back to Galileo.

Regards,

Alan

Alan WF · Dec 24, 2020

M_digicapt said:
I've been using a small wireless speaker hanged from braches to play back recordings. Making sure there are no predators around. It works well. Rarely they get as close as 3m but 5-7m fairly often...

Interesting idea! A couple of times I’ve played bush tit calls on my mobile phone, and had a group of twenty descend from the treetops and flit around me in the lower branches. It makes me feel like a Disney princess.

Regards,

Alan

Alan WF · Dec 24, 2020

I do very much like the framing and tonality in the second (and it makes me thirsty too), but the bokeh is a bit distracting — polygonal in the center and cat’s eye towards the frame edge. I wonder if there are any apodized wide angles, like the Sony 100/2.8 STF.

Regards,

Alan

kymarto · Dec 25, 2020

Flower shot with Hugo Meyer Kino Plasmat 25mm f1.5 C-mount lens on Sony A7R4 in crop mode

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