This month through your adapted lens - March 2018

[GnarlydogOZ]

An invitation to all members to dust off your precious glass and head out to take some pictures, you know: the real reason for the existence of all those lenses in the first place. :-D

Please post here your select efforts with adapted lenses during this month.

Here are the guidelines

• Images with a removable adapter between lens and camera
• Images with the lens mount permanently modified to fit a different camera
• Images with the lens held by hand without an adapter (freelensing)

Including metadata (camera, lens, aperture, shutter speed) is strongly encouraged but not required.

Posting photos taken within the current month is also encouraged.

 

[GnarlydogOZ]

Beach combing on an overcast day with the G.Zuiko 40mm f1.4 (from a half-frame Olympus PEN-F)


G.Zuiko 40/1.4 on Olympus E-M1

I like this lens but the 5-blade aperture created "crystals" (when the sun peeked out) in the speckled highlight; I prefer round balls that a high blade-count apertures gives :-(


G.Zuiko 40/1.4 on Olympus E-M1

 

[Peter J Davies]

Our #2 son got married on March 2 out at Ucluelet on Vancouver Island and we had a big family gathering.




Ocean view from the wedding venue. Sony a3000 with a Konica Hexanon AR 40mm f1.8 lens




Grandson all dressed up. Sony a3000 with a Konica Hexanon AR 40mm f1.8 lens




View up Long Beach towards Tofino. Sony a3000 with an Opteka 6.5mm f3.5 fisheye lens




Family on Long Beach. Sony a3000 with Opteka 6.5mm f3.5 fisheye lens.



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Peter Davies

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[jacketpotato]

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[photoholiko]

Nice shots Peter, I like my A3000 also.

 

[nigbat]

Schneider 25/1.5.... Snow day.



And later on...

 

[nigbat]

The second fisheye shot is excellent.

I could never get a fisheye to look right....

 

[M_digicapt]

Our #2 son got married on March 2 out at Ucluelet on Vancouver Island and we had a big family gathering.


Ocean view from the wedding venue. Sony a3000 with a Konica Hexanon AR 40mm f1.8 lens


Grandson all dressed up. Sony a3000 with a Konica Hexanon AR 40mm f1.8 lens


View up Long Beach towards Tofino. Sony a3000 with an Opteka 6.5mm f3.5 fisheye lens


Family on Long Beach. Sony a3000 with Opteka 6.5mm f3.5 fisheye lens.

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Peter Davies
https://www.flickr.com/photos/14480792@N03/

The baby shot came out great. Specially like the fisheye shots!

 

[M_digicapt]

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[Tons o Glass]

Here's a few shots taken on a walk using a Miida 100mm f/2.8. One of these was practically glued to my NEX/LT II combo for a while, but I hadn't yet tried it on the A7II. The lens is a nice and fairly compact Sonnar-type telephoto that can be found under several different brand names , with the seemingly most common ones being Vivitar and Porst.

The design (five elements in three groups, protruding concave rear element, 1.2m MFD, 6-bladed aperture) closely resembles Topcon's Topcor RE Auto 100/2.8, which is on my If-I-find-it-cheap-list wishlist.




f/3.5, near MFD. Full-size. Not bad! Lightly processed from RAW in C1.




f/3.5. Full-size. How well do you think the lens handled this fairly busy background? Lightly processed from RAW in C1. I find it hard to get the color of flowers in this light spectrum right (may be a camera/user thing; not a fault of the lens), but I think I've come close here.




f/3.5 or wide open. I grabbed this shot because I thought the shadows framed the low hanging fruit nicely. Reduced/cropped/processed in post.




This F-18 snuck up on me. While I was scrambling to stop the lens down and focus, it burst through some beautifully lit clouds and cast a really nice shadow through them. I wish I could've nailed a shot in that moment, but I didn't... So here's this! f/8. 100% crop.

 

[GnarlydogOZ]

At the end of summer, after the rains, the forest comes alive with tiny mushrooms. The canopy is dense and there is very little light making hand-held images a challenge.


Kodak Cine 63mm f2.7




G.Zuiko 40mm f1.4

Apart from the rather humid and hot environment (my sweat would drip over the camera) there are leaches and ticks to deal with. And yet, I keep on going back there.

 

[WhateverNickname]

Nice, I never heard of it and looks very difficult find.

 

[Peter J Davies]

Thank you! He is just 9 months and won't stay still for a second.

 

[Peter J Davies]

Thank you. It was fun for a first experience.

 

[Peter J Davies]

Thank you! I have a lot of fun using it like I did my old film cameras.

 

[Tons o Glass]

Nice, I never heard of it and looks very difficult find.

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https://500px.com/fpessolano

Thanks. Info on these is pretty sparse indeed. There's some nice samples here and there on mflenses forums for some of the variants.

Here's one at a decent (read: worth it IMHO) price (no affiliation with seller): https://www.ebay.com/itm/232681436960

I can confirm that it uses the same optics as the one I have. It looks really long in the pictures but the hood is mostly to blame for that. It's much more compact than most 135mm primes, and is only a little larger than a typical 50/1.4.

Maybe that particular Minolta hood sweetens the deal ;-)

 

[farmer35]

My wife and I enjoy taking day trips every once in a while just to see what we can find. The other day we took a swing through northern Oklahoma.

I had a Minolta 55mm f/1.7 + Lens Turbo II mounted on an E-M1 and a Minolta 28mm f/2.5 + tilt adapter on my E-M10. I ended up using the 28mm more often, occasionally with tilt.























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Bruce Regier

 

[SLN001]

I just saw an Ebay listing for a Canon 1.8/50 that was in excellent condition optically and cosmetically. A previous owner had glued an LTM to M adapter to it, and the seller, in my opinion, was asking too much for a lens that was permanently modified.

Short story, I made an offer for a price I felt to be more appropriate and it was accepted.




Trooper




Naia



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Steve
Just an Armadillo on the shoulder of the information superhighway.

 

[WhateverNickname]

Just 3 of my kids and their friends with a fuji X-TC20 + Speed Booster Ultra + Helios 44M wide open (the last is slightly cropped)

Loving the Speed Booster!







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[D Cox]

Leitz Canada 65mm Elmar, Sigma sdQH camera, Nikon PB-4 bellows.