I started enjoying my new Sony A7 II over the past two weeks around my woodlands, with much joy. The two photos were taken with the FD 50mm f1.2 L, wide open. I used the "custom" mode to assign the C1 button (near shutter release) to the magnify function, which really works for me.
Something a little different with a Canon fd lens....easily adapted to an astronomy CCD camera...optics on par with many more expensive telescopes, and imaging at f/2.8 is great! As a bonus, the filter drawer holds standard 2" astronomy filters like the Hydrogen one used in this image:
astrodave wrote:
Something a little different with a Canon fd lens....easily adapted to an astronomy CCD camera...optics on par with many more expensive telescopes, and imaging at f/2.8 is great! As a bonus, the filter drawer holds standard 2" astronomy filters like the Hydrogen one used in this image:
Great setup. Looks like it became an active tool for real scientific work.
Photo cross posted in the Sony FE Image Thread and taken at 7:26 AM
Looking at 2 10 point Buck White Tail Deer in velvet (1 facing camera)
Fairly cropped tripod mounted Canon new FD 500mm f4.5 L lens and A7r
ISO 250, f4.5, 1/640 second
Exposure corrected by +0.36 Stops; processed in LR6
August 14, 2015
At Big Meadows, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia
Canon FD 400mm f/2.8 L on Sony Alpha 7II (Image crosspost from "Your favorite lens rendering...? ").
I love this lens, even knowing how much better corrected the FD 300mm f/2.8 L is. I use this lens for a lot of my experiments, like with special additional optics as ~170mm f/1.2 with very special bokeh and low sharpness or 300mm/2.1 with ~normal bokeh and sharpness.
I started enjoying my new Sony A7 II over the past two weeks around my woodlands, with much joy. The two photos were taken with the FD 50mm f1.2 L, wide open. I used the "custom" mode to assign the C1 button (near shutter release) to the magnify function, which really works for me.
Thank you! The leaf was hanging by a single thread of a spiderweb that had broken away when (possibly) the leaf fell into it. Just a pure lucky find...
Fun thread, didn't realize it was here! I've tried several legacy brands and Canon FD has to be one of my favorites by far. Great color and contrast, good handling. Most of mine are old BL SSC lenses, but the 80-200L has earned a permanent spot. Here's a couple from that lens. I'll have to pull up some 35mm f/2 SSC and 135mm f/2.5 SC shots, those are two more that are keepers for me.
Photo cross posted in the Sony FE Image Thread and taken at 6:58 AM
Looking at a 10 point Buck White Tail Deer in velvet
Heavily cropped tripod mounted Canon new FD 500mm f4.5 L lens and A7r
ISO 800, f4.5, 1/500 second
Exposure corrected by +0.24 Stops; processed in LR6.4
August 14, 2015
At Big Meadows, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia
