November 2022 Part 1 — This Month Through Your Adapted Lens

LongLiveLumia said:

NLLV said:

I quite like this lens, its colors are muted and it has a soft touch. If you can get a copy of topaz sharpen AI and run it through that. You’d be surprised how much more modern a look you can get.

Topaz labs sharpen ai has a free trial with watermarks.

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Noise doesn't really bother me when adapting, not yet at least. Do want to try out some of the modern denoise engines though if my hardware allows, the one in OM Workspace requires a GPU (which I don't have atm.), others probably as well.

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it bothers me but recently have been experimenting with more. This is with the 50mm 1.4 and a focal reducer so closer to .95

LongLiveLumia said:

Still honeymooning the 45mm pancake. Shot some low light grainy video that came out surprisingly good. Nevertheless also looking at the Hexanon 40mm f1.8 and maybe a Pentax 50mm of sorts just to get a feel for the differences between them. Plenty of them around here for cheap.

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People like to use Minolta lenses for a cinematic look. I have the A mount 50mm 2.0 macro and it has a “newsy” feel and people have commented as such when I show them.

LongLiveLumia said:

I got the 45mm on a SRT body with a 2x TC for €20. - incl. postage

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Funny because I got mine the same way but using an app for folks that buy and sell in real life.
SRT 201and a 45mm plus Celtic 135mm for $30 USD…

Ha thanks!

The last color of Fall. Probably not a very interesting photo, but it is the first time I played with sun star.

ProfHankD said:

sensiblename99 said:

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sensiblename99 said:

These are with a Leica Summilux-R 35 on Sony A7R2, I think all are wide open.
The building, if anyone cares, is the former Clyde Cameron College in Wodonga, Victoria, Australia. It's possibly the best example of Brutalist architecture in the State and pretty much a work of art. It is a protected heritage building. These few images don't even give a hint of what this place is like. If you're into this kind of thing then this building is well and truly worth seeing with your own eyes.

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This is definitely the money shot. I also suspect that it might not have been if you had kept it in color -- B&W definitely seems like the right choice here, and the tones are good.

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Thanks. Brutalism and B&W always seem to work well.

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I think you're right about that, but it's actually the sky that sells me on this shot.

Basically, I really like the textures. The wall to the right has a regular dark spot pattern which is then countered by the irregular white spot pattern of the starry sky. I also love the way the top edge of the building on the right seems to feather-into the sky's tonality. Similarly, the light ground has a natural texture that contrasts well with the darker patterns on the center and left of the building. I even like the shadow lines on the ground, harsh to the left and blending to the right.

There's a lot going on here for such a simple scene, and all of it works for me. ;-)

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Thanks, and yes, there is lots of interest in what is really quite a simple image. I think that's often the nature of Brutalist architecture too but often people can't see the beauty past the ugliness (by ugliness I mean; dissonant, confronting and/or non familiar forms). The colour images are quite strong too, imho. The image below is not from the Leica lens but from the Sony za 1.4/50 at 1.4 which I was using at the same time on a second body (on an A7r4). The issue with shooting at night is that you have to work with whatever lighting is there and sometimes the best way to deal with it is to convert to B&W. The colour versions, as below, are fine but the light was intense oranage sodium vapor so correcting for that can do weird things to other colours. I was lucky with the sky.

sensiblename99 said:

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Completely different feel to this... and it doesn't work anywhere near as well.

ProfHankD said:

sensiblename99 said:

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Completely different feel to this... and it doesn't work anywhere near as well.

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Not Leica!

fferreres said:

ProfHankD said:

sensiblename99 said:

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Completely different feel to this... and it doesn't work anywhere near as well.

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Not Leica!

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Yeah, I passed on a good opportunity to buy a Summilux-R 1.4/50 E60 about 10 years ago. They were affordable then, kind of, but no more.

Because I tend to post images with lenses which oftentimes might be kinda unknown or uncommon I wanted to add one which is very common and widely available, often for next to nothing: This Tomioka-made Tominon 50 mm f/4.5 lens is part of the Polaroid MP4/5 land camera lens line-up (as far as I'm aware) and while it's neither the best of them in terms of image quality (this might go towards the 17 and 35 mm higher magnification variants) nor as great at creating special (bubble) bokeh as the 135 mm version, it's not a bad lens at all for some macro shooting and I feel like it has a really nice rendering as well.

Here's a stacked shot:


Pass with sliding colors


Under the right circumstances it can create some bubbles - here they are halved though, because my drive for experimentation once again got the better of me... ;-)


Overwhelming pressure


And here it is in the open under significantly less stress:




We're in this together

https://www.flickr.com/gp/simple_joy/23g670awQf


Winter? Still open season for color.

https://www.flickr.com/gp/simple_joy/329495eG0G

It might be nothing special, but it's a nice lightweight lens with reasonable macro-capabilities which is cheap and fairly common. The lens mount is 40x0.75 mm though, so you probably need an extra adapter to M42.

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Experimenting manual lens enthusiast.

Pretty nice! The second is cool. I imagine yourself experimenting 4 hours a day The shots are very polished.

The few I have, all pre 1970, imprint on images such air of authenticity. Few lenses can keep up with these Leica. I would love to use some from the 70s but I am not serious enough to spend that much. Modern Leica may be closer to any other good lens I think.

I recently picked up a Mamiya 55mm f/1.4 and have been using it on a fuji XT3. Here are a few quick shots that I have taken so far.

I've struggled a bit with nailing focus, due to a combination the focal length/shooting handheld/shallow DOF/moving objects (thank you wind), but overall, I think that it is an incredibly sharp lens (when I actually do nail focus) and it has a very pleasing, and unique, character to it.

This is my first go at the adapted-lens-world, but I'm already hooked...and I have a couple more lenses on the way

They look really nice, the pp too.

Thank you. I've been playing around with different processing lately, and I'm pretty happy with the results.

Post no new photos, please. The December 2022 thread has just started. Thanks.