December 2022 Part 1 — This Month Through Your Adapted Lens

Met vriendelijke groet, Ernst
No photographer's gear list is complete without the printer mentioned !

Wonderful composition and colors!

Alan WF said:

I do like these. Using a 75-150 on APS-C requires an eye for detail, and clearly you have it.

Regards,

Alan

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Thank you, Alan

André

Still getting to know the 45mm f2 MD, bracketing helps, its colors seems to pop at certain angles and lights only. I'll probably get the Zuiko 45mm anyway later on but enjoying the learning exp. with this old glass for now.
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f2 softness all over the frame

- a few more from this session are shared at https://pixelfed.social/c/500110467740519967

Here are images from some 3D-printed successes, one from a couple years ago that I haven't taken out in a while, and one old find that was recently brought back from the dead.

The first few images are from a Dukane 3-inch f/2.5 projection lens adaptation. It was one of my first attempts at 3D-printed helicoids. It's bulky, a bit on the ugly side, employs a long aluminum rod to prevent the optics from rotating during focusing, and falls apart if you focus too close, but it's super light-weight and has held up quite well! The tiny optics are of the Trioplan variety. Even in the very center I wouldn't call it sharp but images respond well to post-processing (did some here) and chromatic aberrations are actually pretty well controlled. Contrast is a bit low, but I just noticed my sample has some haze in the front coating and there are some shiny tubes internally so a better sample could be improved.


You'll see this leaf down below as well. Wide open (my adaptation can use aperture discs but I never use 'em). Gentle overcast rainy-day lighting.


Uh oh, it's that time of year where lights are up! Center-ish crop. This lens can definitely be a bubbler, but I am no expert on that. If this is enough bubbliness for you I can recommend adapting one!


A through-the-bathroom-mirror self-portrait of the Dukane adaptation, with a rebellious tuft of unkempt hair on the top of yours truly's head in the background, refusing to be hidden.

The next few images are from a newly-adjusted late multi-coated Tokina-made 35mm f/2.8 in M42-mount. I got it a few years ago. It had all the makings of a great user lens and was a joy to operate. But when I first peered through the EVF it was disappointingly bad to the point that I was convinced something was definitely wrong with it so I set it on a for-parts shelf and forgot about it for a few years.

I recently took some time to try to figure out why it was such a lemon. As it turns out, the rear cell had a visibly defective/decentered retaining ring that was skewing those rear optics quite a bit. I felt the retaining ring itself was a little too small to 3D-print reliably so I whipped up and 3D-printed an entirely new rear lens cell that threads on in place of the old one. It uses a beefy (well, at least by comparison to the defective retaining ring) rear retaining cap instead of a ring.

It worked out better than I expected, which is always nice! It seems to be much more centered now, at least in the rear group...!


f/2.8 mid-focus distance - as with many retrofocus 35mm lenses I don't really care much for the clipped bokeh shapes towards the corners at these mid-range distances.


f/5.6 - ah, that's better.


f/5.6 from a different angle with some extra extension from my 3D-printed helicoid.


f/2.8 with more extra extension, where bokeh balls are less offensive

Great shots! At the beginning I didn't understand the getting to know a lens. But after using some for a while, I know what it does, I know how it focuses, I know what it will do in most scenes. How things render. How it reacts to backlit scenes. I have to have fewer lenses...the more lenses I use, the more I realize how much I like some over others.

Helios 44-2 on Fuji XT2. Acros filmsimulation, slight editing in Snapseed.

Canon FD 50mm f/1.2, Sony A7C




Party Mask

Nikon 85mm f/1.8 D



9 frames stitched. Not for shallow DOF. Just to have a larger image to work with for editing. I find that I just like using this lens. I have to use the Nikon FTZ adapter which I just hate because the tripod mount interferes with my L bracket so I can't change the lens when it's mounted. Otherwise it's fine. the 85D is a screw drive so it becomes manual focus when using the FTZ adapter.

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I've mentioned this lens once before, but used it quite a bit since then and find it really effective:


Multidimensional cathedral



Orange: down to the point.



Not bad for a tenner…



I wouldn't rust them an inch!



Bubblo Picasso


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Experimenting manual lens enthusiast.

LouMeluso said:

Canon FD 50mm f/1.2, Sony A7C


Party Mask

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Absolutely love it.

Hoping to get some vintage glass out before the end of the year!

simple-joy said:

I've mentioned this lens once before, but used it quite a bit since then and find it really effective:

Multidimensional cathedral

https://flic.kr/p/2o2eazX

Orange: down to the point.

https://flic.kr/p/2o24GJc

Not bad for a tenner…

https://flic.kr/p/2nKdLCj

I wouldn't rust them an inch!

https://flic.kr/p/2nSf6b7

Bubblo Picasso

https://flic.kr/p/2o2gzoo

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Great stuff! I particularly like the bubbles in the last shot!

LouMeluso said:

Canon FD 50mm f/1.2, Sony A7C


Party Mask

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I really like this.

And I normally DISLIKE photos with an ultra-shallow DOF. But in this case, it really works well.

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What Middle School Is Really Like:

Yesterday exactly 80 years ago the bombings of Operation Oyster took place. The date of 6-12-1942 is still a black one for the city of Eindhoven.

As the location is small, the ceremony was also rather modest. Several survivors were present, as well as some officials, school pupils and of course people who care.

For the series related to WW-II, I exclusively use glass that predates 5-5-1945. I wish I had a wider lens with me yesterday, as the location had a few tight spots. As a result, yesterday evening, I ordered a 2.8cm Hektor of 1940-vintage.

But enough talk, here are a few pics.

The look really nice and I wasn't sure before reading if these where old or new photos. It shows your attention to detail using a lens of the era that was made at the time this happened.

The rust picture is puzzling. It totally looks like an eagle. The Picasso one is wonderful.

Zoom-Nikkor Auto 43-86mm f3.5.

Not really the best lens choice for the situation but it worked.

Nikon 25-50mm f/4 Ai on a Nikon Z7

My favorites are of the older man being interviewed and the woman giving a speech. Each gives the perfect amount of context, but has a clear subject. Masterful.

Regards,

Alan