Mr Giggles

its the late black version 105 its the later version where the went over to a 5 element design from the simple tessar that came before after my version they actually created a version where the ...

it has built in parallax compensation - I did not make any adjustment now if you swap out the 105 I used for a wide angle - 55 you do have to make an adjustment and there is a crazy tripod head ...

Ohhhhhh yeaaaaaa

I hope you don't get lambasted for talking about films "rendering" and "charm" - like I did. its just so much more important then pure image resolution and technical clinical perfection

Hey you are right I was thinking of this from the perspective of Photography as an art form. It really did not occur to me that the resolution - not the art - was the important part here but like ...

let a half stop more light in that's a low resolution scan by the way - 4 mp

the lens on this thing has nice Bokeh it a Heliar 5 element lens ( I got lucky ... this lens is normally a 4 element Tessar ) whats pretty bitchin is that it will focus real close  - this image is ...

how many here have made a wet plate enlargement from a silver halide film stock medium format BW negative and compared it to a digital print ? ( to my eyes the tonal gradations in the silver halide ...

...... not that far if you ask me a little more accurate lens design , but no improvement in resolution or actual visual quality .... biggest change ? color !

beauty is in the eye of the beholder

you have to ask yourself what is important ? A) Do you want clinical optical perfection using a high element  extremely complex -large aperture lens which has obtained a very high ranking in ...

this is a ridiculous debate first of all unless you are very familiar with film printed in a wet lab with chemical and enlarger you have not seen what film has to offer I ask you this : 1) have you ...

what ever you do - dont buy a flat bed to scan 35mm film get a dedicated scanner like a plustec the results will be extremely better

How do you like it for video ?

If you are doing anamorphic video or still images  with your M4/3 which lens and software are you using ? I picked up a Sirui 50mm anamorphic and have been taking video of the beach areas of ...

a lot of it depends on how strong and big you are ... if it looks like you could knock someone's head off their shoulders .... your odds of getting mugged go down

you must be in Japan most honest place I have ever been ..... no where else even come close

even that was not creative ... it was more subtractive Matter - Antimatter = a very small amount of matter

you are about to get over 100 responses from folks who will claim that the point you have brought up is a total falsehood and they have done 25 different tests at 25 different iso settings to prove it

how was the diving ???? heard its the worlds best there