April 2024 Part 2 — This Month Through Your Adapted Lens

Great subject! Likely a contemporary to the tiny Jupiter-8 you are using!

T-Rex Mark said:

Your opinion super matters, I’ve been following you on Flickr for a long time, thank you!

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That's quite the honor - thank you! Given that people question the validity of my photography at least with some regularity, it's always good to know there are also those out there who're still interested to see some of the photographic experiments.

simple-joy said:

blåland said:

T-Rex Mark said:

Great shots, my yard is small and my dog is rarely still or in one place to get a good picture by manual lenses (miniature schnauzer). On TTArtisan, great picture and perfect bubbles I wanted the lens for bubbles but I enjoy it with smoother bokeh too, it’s a nice lens and a good reproduction of the original I believe (although I can only compare handling to a 70-year old 50/2.9, I have not had the chance to use the original Trioplan). And these two are a bit different - 100mm TTA has sharpness where as Trioplan has nice softness and glow (some of that probably from age/state).

thanks

mark

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Thanks! I'm lucky to have a lot of nature around to get nice shots. I try to tell them to stay still for the portraits but it doesn't always work
Speaking of the TTA I don't have an original Trioplan 100mm either. But I have a Diaplan 100mm that is said the have identical optics and I rate that one a little bit better wide open. It has slightly better soap bubbles and a bit more glow than the TTA.
I'll keep both!

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While I like the Trioplan 100 mm and feel like it's the most effective bubble lens that I own overall, I often prefer shorter focal length lenses for creating bokeh bubbles. If I remember correctly, you have got a 50 mm Trioplan, haven't you? If so, do you feel like it does work as well in terms of creating bubbles or are the Diaplan and TTArtisan better at it due to the longer focal length?

I like my Steinheil lenses (57 mm and the recently discovered 45 mm one) a lot because they're more versatile in terms of playing with bokeh than a 100 mm Trioplan (which is excellent in its own ways but a bit more limited).

Here are some samples with the Steinheil lenses to show what I mean:

Playing with light

https://flic.kr/p/2ovEx3r

Quest for the origin of light...

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

Bubblic viewing

https://flic.kr/p/2pJ1E1L

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You are correct I have a M42 50mm Trioplan. I actually haven't thought about focal length as limiting when taking bubble bokeh shots. I usually go for the Diaplan out of habit, but sometimes the Wollensak Oscillo-Anastigmat 75mm f1.9:









I'll shoot more with the 50mm Trioplan and think about it! Your Steinheil shots looks great! It's a good motivation

simple-joy said:

blåland said:

T-Rex Mark said:

Great shots, my yard is small and my dog is rarely still or in one place to get a good picture by manual lenses (miniature schnauzer). On TTArtisan, great picture and perfect bubbles I wanted the lens for bubbles but I enjoy it with smoother bokeh too, it’s a nice lens and a good reproduction of the original I believe (although I can only compare handling to a 70-year old 50/2.9, I have not had the chance to use the original Trioplan). And these two are a bit different - 100mm TTA has sharpness where as Trioplan has nice softness and glow (some of that probably from age/state).

thanks

mark

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Thanks! I'm lucky to have a lot of nature around to get nice shots. I try to tell them to stay still for the portraits but it doesn't always work
Speaking of the TTA I don't have an original Trioplan 100mm either. But I have a Diaplan 100mm that is said the have identical optics and I rate that one a little bit better wide open. It has slightly better soap bubbles and a bit more glow than the TTA.
I'll keep both!

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While I like the Trioplan 100 mm and feel like it's the most effective bubble lens that I own overall, I often prefer shorter focal length lenses for creating bokeh bubbles. If I remember correctly, you have got a 50 mm Trioplan, haven't you? If so, do you feel like it does work as well in terms of creating bubbles or are the Diaplan and TTArtisan better at it due to the longer focal length?

I like my Steinheil lenses (57 mm and the recently discovered 45 mm one) a lot because they're more versatile in terms of playing with bokeh than a 100 mm Trioplan (which is excellent in its own ways but a bit more limited).

Here are some samples with the Steinheil lenses to show what I mean:

Playing with light

https://flic.kr/p/2ovEx3r

Quest for the origin of light...

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

Bubblic viewing

https://flic.kr/p/2pJ1E1L

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Experimenting manual lens enthusiast.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/simple_joy/

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Your shots are superb above, each is great in their own way, it is very cool when the “background blur” actually becomes the photograph story’s main subject.

Great to know about these lenses. They all produce slightly different effects with the outlines that are contrasty or less contrasty, the sizes are different and so on. Although I got Trioplan and TTArtisan predominantly due to bubbles and I had occasional successes I don’t think I took it to specifically bubble hunting and I don’t think I did use them together on the same subjects. It’s a great topic / idea to address. What I discovered is that they produce very decent non bubbly bokeh and I am quite happy with it on both, with bubbles coming into the picture time to time (Christmas and generally trees). I took the TTA to the arboretum when I got it first I should repeat that with both to see how they compare.

thanks

Mark





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Testing out a newly purchased Konica AR 50mm f1.7.

Dutch draught horses


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