August 2025 — This Month Through Your Adapted Lens

Jones Longshot · Aug 2, 2025

simple-joy said:
One of my favorite Triplets, a fun bubble bokeh lens:

Bling 182

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

What are the odds?

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

Harder, better, fastener, stronger?

https://flic.kr/p/2qW4khu

Always on line

https://flic.kr/p/2r3TAqv

Beautiful work as always and always giving me something to aspire to.

--

Jones Hendershot

www.joneshendershot.com

Jane in Spain

Hola! Welcome to Jane in Spain, where Sarah "Jane" and Jones Longshot (and dogs Ruby and Hazel) explore how and why we left the US for Spain, and show you what our life here in Spain is like. We are in love with Galicia and its people, and we love to learn about this ancient culture and how its...

youtube.com

IssyHK · Aug 3, 2025

404_image_not_found said:
Recent downtown walk testing out a new to me Lumix S1R. So far so good. More MP, more noise, but nothing LR noise reduction cant handle. Testing a new Voitlander VM 40/1.2 as well.

Konica Hexanon AR 50/1.4, version 1

Voigtlander 40/1.2, all shots from a local aquarium trip with my daughter. She is learning photography on my old NEX-7. I think all of these are shot wide open.

Great pictures! I like these especially.

IssyHK · Aug 3, 2025

Sjak said:
Recently purchased the grandad of the shift-lenses for small format. It arrived today, just before I went for a stroll through a park.

There's a lot to like about this lens: size and handling are great, and built to last. Might make a great travel-companion

Cool pictures! Seeing trees in that way gives a totally different perspective of nature.

IssyHK · Aug 3, 2025

simple-joy said:
One of my favorite Triplets, a fun bubble bokeh lens:

Bling 182

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

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

Harder, better, fastener, stronger?

https://flic.kr/p/2qW4khu

https://flic.kr/p/2r3TAqv

These look very cool! The others as well but these are my favourites.

IssyHK · Aug 3, 2025

Jones Longshot said:
I'm trying out my new to me Nikkor 105-P 2.5 Pre-Ai lens in as many different types of images as I can. This was shot on my kitchen table at f/11.

Nikkor 105-P 2.5 @f/11

This is a single coated Sonnar design from around 1970. At least that is how I'm interpreting the information I am finding.

Beautiful colours and are very special object!

IssyHK · Aug 3, 2025

Thanks for the nice comments!

IssyHK · Aug 3, 2025

Thanks a lot!

Sjak · Aug 4, 2025

Jones Longshot said:
These images have inspired me. I've been missing my 4x5 and thinking about a PC lens lately. Very nice work.

Thank you!

Although the old PC-lenses are far from perfect, they are compact and very usable. The modern variants tend to have much less vices, but are much larger.

Please be sure to also check this thread about the Nikkor 28mm PC, where a forum-member made a very extensive walkthrough/review of this lens:

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4812049#forum-post-68381270

A very inspiring video IMO.

Sjak · Aug 4, 2025

Jones Longshot said:
I'm trying out my new to me Nikkor 105-P 2.5 Pre-Ai lens in as many different types of images as I can. This was shot on my kitchen table at f/11.

This is a single coated Sonnar design from around 1970. At least that is how I'm interpreting the information I am finding.

Very nice, there's lot of care and consideration in the composition and lighting!

Sjak · Aug 5, 2025

Today's delivery... This lens is going to be fun

shot wide-open...

Contrast is sufficient for decent AF with the Techart.

404_image_not_found · Aug 5, 2025

simple-joy said:
Excellent work - love these in particular! Great mood and awesome composition and balance.

Thank you very much.

simple-joy said:
Great to hear that your daughter is interested in photography as well!

I'm wondering if my kids will show an interest for photography too, later on. I'll certainly try to encourage them if they do, but avoid trying to push them... They should decide on their own.

Very true. My daughter is fairly artistic and is showing some interest in it as a new medium.

simple-joy said:
P.S.: Seeing the aquarium and your style of photography immediately reminded me of The Last of Us 2... very similar mood in a way. Do you know that game?

I am familiar with it though I have never played it, only part of the first one. Watched both seasons of the show, that was really good. Glad the images made you think of it.

404_image_not_found · Aug 5, 2025

A big thank you to everyone who liked the first post. Your comments are always read and appreciated.

Another downtown walk. This time using the Konica Hexanon AR 57/1.4 and a Hexanon 35/2. All images on a Lumix S1. For added info, my copy of the 57mm is the 13th version, at least according to this site I found. Seems a bit more comprehensive than Buhls site. Use a browser translator and sit back for some interesting history on Hexanons.

Konica Hexanon AR 57mm F1.4 » Konica中文资料站

www.hexanon.net

57/1.4

And now the 35/2

--
/404/

T-Rex Mark · Aug 5, 2025

404_image_not_found said:
A big thank you to everyone who liked the first post. Your comments are always read and appreciated.

Another downtown walk. This time using the Konica Hexanon AR 57/1.4 and a Hexanon 35/2. All images on a Lumix S1. For added info, my copy of the 57mm is the 13th version, at least according to this site I found. Seems a bit more comprehensive than Buhls site. Use a browser translator and sit back for some interesting history on Hexanons.

https://www.hexanon.net/konica_lens_detail/57f1-4/

57/1.4

And now the 35/2

--
/404/

wow! I like the other pictures too but these are stunning.

--

500px

500px.com

simple-joy · Aug 5, 2025

T-Rex Mark said:
T-Rex Mark said:

And now the 35/2

Click to expand...

wow! I like the other pictures too but these are stunning.

I agree - excellent work! I guess it has a lot to do with the processing as well.

--
Experimenting manual lens enthusiast.

simple.joy

Explore simple.joy’s 4,274 photos on Flickr!

www.flickr.com

404_image_not_found · Aug 5, 2025

simple-joy said:
T-Rex Mark said:

wow! I like the other pictures too but these are stunning.

Click to expand...

I agree - excellent work! I guess it has a lot to do with the processing as well.

Thank you both, very much.

Yes, processing is an important part of my digital imagery. Taking the image is only part of it.

simple-joy · Aug 6, 2025

This is an interesting one... certainly the shortest projection lens with variable focal length, which I've seen so far.

Of course the image circle is limited, but not too bad for a 16 mm lens.

--
Experimenting manual lens enthusiast.

simple.joy

Explore simple.joy’s 4,274 photos on Flickr!

www.flickr.com

T-Rex Mark · Aug 6, 2025

simple-joy said:
This is an interesting one... certainly the shortest projection lens with variable focal length, which I've seen so far.

Of course the image circle is limited, but not too bad for a 16 mm lens.

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

very nice indeed! The two 16mm projection lenses that I have I really liked, and this one delivers very pleasant rendering and background effect. I like these pictures especially.

--

500px

500px.com

Sjak · Aug 7, 2025

Nothing really serious, just testing the AF with the Techart, and how the lens behaves outdoors. It has a tendency of blooming at high contrast backlit edges, something to consider. Also made some portraits (which I can't post) where the gentle rendering at f/2 to f2.8-4 works well.

I think I set the aperture to f/8.

404_image_not_found · Aug 7, 2025

simple-joy said:
This is an interesting one... certainly the shortest projection lens with variable focal length, which I've seen so far.

Of course the image circle is limited, but not too bad for a 16 mm lens.

The OOF rendering here, past the focal plane, especially in the upper right quadrant where the light is captured along the edge, is SUBLIME.

--
/404/

Bosun Higgs · Aug 8, 2025

simple-joy said:
This is an interesting one... certainly the shortest projection lens with variable focal length, which I've seen so far.

What is it with Optical and this weird 5mm FL adjustment?

Several of my 35mm cinema projection lenses from them also have +5mm of adjustment, I have always wondered why?

Adjustable full size lenses are rare, so it must not have been a big selling point.

5mm sounds reasonable with a 50mm optic, but I have a 140mm Optical, and 5mm seems a pretty small adjustment for that FL.

I know ISCO made FL adjustment accessories for their cinema lenses, I have a couple of their Magna- Com 35's. These allowed adjustment of the FL in both directions. I have even seen a Taylor Hobson 1.25x magnifier designed for use with cinema lenses.

But compared to the projection lenses themselves, these adaptors are also very rare.

August 2025 — This Month Through Your Adapted Lens

Leading Member

Active member

Active member

Active member

Active member

Active member

Active member

Veteran Member

Veteran Member

Veteran Member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Senior Member

Senior Member

Well-known member

Senior Member

Senior Member

Veteran Member

Well-known member

Senior Member

Similar threads

Keyboard shortcuts