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Re-purposed old 17-35mm EX HSM to Sony

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Re: Sample Shot
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xpatUSA wrote:

DMillier wrote:

Finally remembered to use the 17-35mm + dumb adaptor while out shooting Monk Bretton Abbey ruins (Barnsley, Yorkshire) yesterday. It works!

This was shot at 17mm on my A7rii (aperture permanently locked to f/8). I think as a free lens retrieved from the attic, it can do a job.

Lots of geometric and perspective distortion correction required in post. It would have been a heaviliy distorting lens uncorrected on film in its day.

Very nice!

OT, but my M42s are pretty good too, especially on the G9.

I have a little collection of M42 lenses: 28mm Vivitar, 35mm Chinon, 58mm Helios, 135mm Vivitar, 200mm Chinon. I'm working on a new series on my website "Serious photography on the cheap" about cheap cameras and lenses. Something to include in future.

I'm going to do a 16" x 16" print of the above image, see what it looks like printed.

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