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p.3 #1 · Yet another hidden gem?

I don't understand, Nate.

Nov 22, 2009 at 02:13 AM

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p.3 #2 · Yet another hidden gem?

Sorry, I meant pengland shots, not yours. I like both your and pengland's shots. This lens looks great and the fact that you got it super cheap makes it even better. At medium distances I suspect this lens will exhibit the same bokeh that you often complain about. I guess we'll see.

Nov 22, 2009 at 02:17 AM

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p.3 #3 · Yet another hidden gem?

I suspect you may be right, but I'm not really going to be so picky about bokeh at 24mm. The speed will be nice to have, but I am planning to use it stopped down more often than not.

Nov 22, 2009 at 02:24 AM

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Thanks to Nick (pengland), I have now completed the conversion of this little gem (more on that later).

I managed to find time to shoot a few more test shots. Unfortunately not outdoors yet, but I plan to take it for a walk later this morning.

Here it is at f2 on my 5D, to test for distortion and corner performance. Hard to determine the real resolution at ISO 1600 (1/20th, hand held), but I think this is pretty impressive, nonetheless, for a 24/2 wide open.

The uncropped image:

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Nov 29, 2009 at 02:01 PM

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p.3 #5 · Yet another hidden gem?

Japanese for busy people!

Nov 29, 2009 at 02:07 PM

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TWoK wrote:
Japanese for busy people!

Apparently I'm not busy enough for that book. I'm waiting for "Japanese for Lazy People".

Nov 29, 2009 at 02:10 PM

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A few from the walk:

f2:

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Nov 29, 2009 at 08:10 PM

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cogitech wrote:
Mr.Burns wrote:
The first one kinda reminds me of a LensBaby shot.

I like the look.

-Mickey

That makes sense, since I was holding the camera to my face with my right hand and holding the lens near the camera with the other hand. To focus, the mountless lens had to be held about 3-4mm away from the camera mount flange, so some tilt and shift was inevitable (I'm not that good). Sort of like Anden's Franken-tilt, but without the lens pouch "bellows".

Not quite though. Lensbabies aren't tilt-shift lenses and have no correction for aberation. A hand-held lens would have a mimic'd tilt or shift (or both) effect applied, through virtue of being unsecured, but it would never have a lensbaby effect by virtue of higher quality optics. Unless of course, if you reversed the polarity and added blur before reversion to original polarity in Photoshop. :P

Really, in the first example, you're getting a really sweet example of Scheimpflug.

Nov 29, 2009 at 08:49 PM

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p.3 #9 · Yet another hidden gem?

Looks nice, although I can't imagine you're a fan of the blur in the last shot.

Nov 29, 2009 at 10:40 PM

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p.3 #10 · Yet another hidden gem?

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Looks nice, although I can't imagine you're a fan of the blur in the last shot.

For a 24mm lens, I can't complain. Sometimes I don't mind a bit of funkiness. Ultra-smooth can get boring if that's all I ever see.

Nov 29, 2009 at 11:24 PM

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Interesting. I like. Seeing that I can't do this conversion myself atm, are there people out there that will do the FD to EOS conversions for me? If so, at what price?

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Nov 30, 2009 at 03:16 AM

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p.3 #12 · Yet another hidden gem?

Please ignore, I'll put up an ordinary ad some day when I have the time.

Nov 30, 2009 at 04:36 AM

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p.3 #13 · Yet another hidden gem?

I'm interested in getting mine converted, too. It would be fun to compare it to the Oly 21 and 24.

Dec 01, 2009 at 04:19 AM

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p.3 #14 · Yet another hidden gem?

I have an FD 24/2 that I'm preparing to convert. I expect that mount should be pretty straightforward. But I could use some direction on the aperture linkage. Can anyone who has converted this lens offer any tips? Thanks,

--Geoff

Dec 01, 2009 at 09:07 PM

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p.3 #15 · Yet another hidden gem?

If I have time on the weekend, I'll post some useful info. Haven't been feeling well lately, but I'll do my best.

Dec 01, 2009 at 09:10 PM


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