January 2023 Part 1 — This Month Through Your Adapted Lens

Alan WF · Dec 31, 2022

An invitation to dust off your precious (or not so precious) glass and head out to make some photographs: the real reason for the existence of all our lenses.

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 encouraged but not required.
Comments are encouraged, but please keep them friendly and constructive.

Continued from December 2022 Part 1.

I will also take a moment to wish you all the very best for 2023, both in your photography and in your lives beyond photography.

Alan

Alan WF · Dec 31, 2022

Back at the end of November, I had a free day in Provence at the end of a work trip, drove down to the Camargue, and what did I find?

All with the Canon M50 Mark II, Canon EF to EF-M adapter, Kenko TELEPLUS-HD 1.4x DGX extender, and Canon EF-S 55-250 mm f/4-5.6 IS STM at 350 mm.

Regards,

Alan

RvL001 · Dec 31, 2022

I've been quite absent here on DP lately, but I di wish you all a very happy new year!

Shot with the Canon EOS M50 an Canon FD 28mm f/2.8 S.C.

jiberlin · Jan 1, 2023

A7 + Jupiter-12 f8.0, SOOC

simple-joy · Jan 1, 2023

First of all - thanks to everyone here for the welcoming atmosphere you provided for a newcomer like me during the last year and many thanks for all the nice and constructive comments as well as the beautiful and inspiring images you shared! I wish you a wonderful New Year!

This is one of my most used lenses during recent weeks and while it certainly has its drawbacks (in terms of usable image circle and CA correction) it's one of those cases of a lens that seemed to constantly challenge and inspire me to try new ideas...

The S-Coronar 25 mm f/1.4 is a tiny enlarging/projection lens by the small German manufacturer C. Friedrich, which was based in Munich and appears to have been sold mainly by Rolyn optics in the US. If you have any of their sales brochures btw. that you could share, I'd really appreciate any information, because it's quite scarce in this case.

Starry nigh

https://flic.kr/p/2o76tQz

Ice: the window to the… cold!

https://flic.kr/p/2o5H9Us

Tread lightly, my dear Reindeer!

https://flic.kr/p/2o6mNrF

Gold? That might be pushing it...

https://flic.kr/p/2o66n6E

Planet Christmas

https://flic.kr/p/2o6oV5e

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Sjak · Jan 1, 2023

I was looking for this older pic. Due to new construction, this mural is not visible anymore. The 2nd image is obviously not an old lens (but with my GR3x) and shows the intermediate situation. Very different time of day&year, and accordingly vastly different light and colours. Meanwhile, there's a bland multi-store building there.

LouMeluso · Jan 1, 2023

A few recent ones:

Lady in a Gray Hat

Sony A7C, EBC Fujinon 55mm f/1.8 Wide open

Fresh-picked Blueberries

Sony A7C, Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/2.8 @f8

Guardian Lion in the Fog

Sony A7C, Konica Hexanon AR 40mm f/1.8 Wide open

simple-joy · Jan 1, 2023

LouMeluso said:
A few recent ones:

Excellent shots with great lighting. Happy New Year!

xtam667 · Jan 1, 2023

This is the Fujita 2.5/35, which is said to be the first Japanese retrofocus lens. It was developed in the mid-fifties and sold under various other names as well. It is pretty uncommon these days. This Fujita is about the worst 35mm lens I have seen so far - never sharp off-centre and flares terribly. Colours are muted and contrast is low. I still like it because of the weird bokeh it can produce and good close focus performance.

xtam667 · Jan 1, 2023

Must be an interesting lens but it seems to me it does not really matter what lens you use as your work is always remarkable, especially the way you light your compositions. Luminous and airy spring to mind.

Travis Butler · Jan 1, 2023

simple-joy said:
Starry nigh

https://flic.kr/p/2o76tQz

Ice: the window to the… cold!

https://flic.kr/p/2o5H9Us

Interesting as always... I think these two are my favorite. I do wonder if tightening the crop on the second might improve it; I love the crystals and want to see more of them in the frame. ^^;;

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Travis Butler · Jan 1, 2023

Sjak said:
I was looking for this older pic. Due to new construction, this mural is not visible anymore. The 2nd image is obviously not an old lens (but with my GR3x) and shows the intermediate situation. Very different time of day&year, and accordingly vastly different light and colours. Meanwhile, there's a bland multi-store building there.

Ugh. ;_; The first one is beautiful; I hate it when art like that gets torn down.

Travis Butler · Jan 1, 2023

There's something sad about seeing the bones of a park designed for summer when it's verging on winter.

Sigma fp, Pentax-A 50/1.7

This was my first outing with the Pentax-A I mentioned a while back, after cleaning all the dust out of the camera bag; it seems like a decent lens, a pity it got overshadowed so quickly by the second copy of the Pentax-M 50/1.4.

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Sjak · Jan 2, 2023

Travis Butler said:
Ugh. ;_; The first one is beautiful; I hate it when art like that gets torn down.

Thanks! Yes the light was incredibly nice on that cold day with a beautiful winter sunset.

Technically the artwork wasnt torn down, just new building was built against it. I should make a pic of the (admittedly depressing) current situation

Also, on the more recent pic, the white-balance was challenging for both the camera, and myself (in post.)

Sjak · Jan 2, 2023

Nice! That looks like a really nice area to have a stroll!

simple-joy · Jan 2, 2023

xtam667 said:
Must be an interesting lens but it seems to me it does not really matter what lens you use as your work is always remarkable, especially the way you light your compositions. Luminous and airy spring to mind.

Thank you very much! That's giving me way too much credit though... I would say, it's mostly trial and error!

Travis Butler said:
Interesting as always... I think these two are my favorite. I do wonder if tightening the crop on the second might improve it; I love the crystals and want to see more of them in the frame. ^^;;

Glad you like them. You're right a tighter crop might have been the better choice. I rarely do significant crops, so I often just don't think of it. But if I get a chance to shoot more ice crystals or snowflakes during the winter, I'll definitely keep it in mind for composing while shooting, because this lens can get even closer if necessary.

guitarjeff · Jan 2, 2023

Found this lens for 40 bucks free shipping so figured it would be worth a try. Opinions on the look are welcome. I notice it needs more sharpening than my modern lenses and I don't know if I am doing too much. These days software has things like micro contrast and such that look like sharpening to me and even a little of all of them seems to add up to oversharpening. Any others here into Vivitar lenses? Thanks

simple-joy · Jan 2, 2023

guitarjeff said:
Found this lens for 40 bucks free shipping so figured it would be worth a try. Opinions on the look are welcome. I notice it needs more sharpening than my modern lenses and I don't know if I am doing too much. These days software has things like micro contrast and such that look like sharpening to me and even a little of all of them seems to add up to oversharpening. Any others here into Vivitar lenses? Thanks

I like this one the most - processing looks very good here as well. I don't own that lens but it seems to be quite good for close-ups.

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