It is a day to celebrate those that willingly placed their lives at risk for all of us, and delivered...
May their families find solace, their spirits thrive, and may we be so lucky as to join them in Valhalla.
bruni wrote:
...I used to shoot these MF lenses exclusively a few years ago but now I don't know how I did it, I've become so used to pressing the shutter and letting the camera do all the work that I'm finding it quite hard to use them - not that I have many left. I sold at least 100 - 150 lenses before leaving Australia. I sort of regret it now, there's a couple I wish I'd kept. But I see Curtis is still up to his old tricks, quietly and persistently urging more purchases - so who knows, I may re-buy - ha ha - adds new meaning to the "kit building is forever' adage... ...Show more →
I knew it was impossible to get an accurate count on your lenses back in the day Ben, but I knew you had a slew of them... but selling a hundred lenses?
You've likely missed the journey our friend Chris had with his manual focus Nikkors. He sold his entire kit then realized he'd made a mistake... and bought them all over again. From what you shared I know some of the lenses in your kit had not been in the greatest shape. You spoke of conversions done by a not very skilled technician. So perhaps letting them go was the sensible thing to do. But "kit building REALLY is forever" my friend, so it is always possible to pick up a lens or two... the "could I wish I'd kept" for example...
saph wrote:
Leighton I will drive the 2+ hours to the market and adhere to all the rules there, just to buy the Malmo sauce and North Carolina coffee
We have assigned to participate in at least 5 local farmers markets here in Malmö over july, august and september. I'll bring some MF Nikkors to document it all. It's gonna be a lot of fun, Cant wait!
I hoped to contribute a few photos taken with a different lens yesterday. I'd been pulling 50mm lenses out as the discussion turned to the f/1.8 AI-s and was reminded I have a 5.8cm f/1.4 with its original lens hood. I mounted it after depressing the tab on the mount and set up the non-CPU register for this non-AI lens. I set aperture on the body at f/2.8, then on the lens before heading out the door. I was able to use the green dot for focus confirmation but I soon noted photos were over-exposed. I don't generally check images on the LCD screen at the back. In fact, I've reduced the time that displays to save the charge on the battery. But I did note the problem and checked to exposure compensation and everything was normal. Then I noticed it was impossible to gain focus at infinity and that even stopping down didn't solve the exposure issues. At one point I experimented by reducing exposure compensation, going down two stops and I still was overexposed at f/8. So something is amiss. Checking the images nothing was really sharp.
I mounted a 50 f/1.4 S.C. AI after throwing away all those photos and it metered without a problem. I can imagine the failure to gain focus means the lens needed adjustment but the problem with exposure is confusing to me. I'd welcome any comments. The lens is in EX+ condition physically and apart from a bit of dust in the lens I see nothing amiss optically. Does my Df not like pre-AI lenses? Is there a setting I messed up? Mmmm.
CGrindahl wrote:
I hoped to contribute a few photos taken with a different lens yesterday. I'd been pulling 50mm lenses out as the discussion turned to the f/1.8 AI-s and was reminded I have a 5.8cm f/1.4 with its original lens hood. I mounted it after depressing the tab on the mount and set up the non-CPU register for this non-AI lens. I set aperture on the body at f/2.8, then on the lens before heading out the door. I was able to use the green dot for focus confirmation but I soon noted photos were over-exposed. I don't generally check images on the LCD screen at the back. In fact, I've reduced the time that displays to save the charge on the battery. But I did note the problem and checked to exposure compensation and everything was normal. Then I noticed it was impossible to gain focus at infinity and that even stopping down didn't solve the exposure issues. At one point I experimented by reducing exposure compensation, going down two stops and I still was overexposed at f/8. So something is amiss. Checking the images nothing was really sharp.
I mounted a 50 f/1.4 S.C. AI after throwing away all those photos and it metered without a problem. I can imagine the failure to gain focus means the lens needed adjustment but the problem with exposure is confusing to me. I'd welcome any comments. The lens is in EX+ condition physically and apart from a bit of dust in the lens I see nothing amiss optically. Does my Df not like pre-AI lenses? Is there a setting I messed up? Mmmm....Show more →
Curtis - are the aperture blades stopping down? I had that problem with sticky blades on a 200mm f/4. I have also had an issue where the aperture coupling on the lens mount had bent and was rubbing against the mount flange causing exposure issues because the aperture blades would not stop down.
But that wouldn't explain the focus issues. Hmmm...
BBQ time to end another glorious day in the UK. Perfect weather for a public holiday.
On my third day of fence painting this weekend but ran out of wood preservative.
We skipped lunch today so had an early supper.
I am getting bored taking standard flower shots but the setting sun illuminated this patch in a nice way so I had to try to capture it. I was trying to get a sunstar effect as well but failed miserably.
DeltaSigma wrote:
I am getting bored taking standard flower shots but the setting sun illuminated this patch in a nice way so I had to try to capture it. I was trying to get a sunstar effect as well but failed miserably.
Sounds like you did everything right. Assuming you matched the aperture ring with the in camera setting, and had non-Ai set as well? No idea on the focus, are you able to set the lens itself to infinity? You might try live view to validate focus operation at a couple of distances.
I use the 5.8cm f/1.4 often on my Df and it works great. Maybe something off in the lens.
CGrindahl wrote:
I hoped to contribute a few photos taken with a different lens yesterday. I'd been pulling 50mm lenses out as the discussion turned to the f/1.8 AI-s and was reminded I have a 5.8cm f/1.4 with its original lens hood. I mounted it after depressing the tab on the mount and set up the non-CPU register for this non-AI lens. I set aperture on the body at f/2.8, then on the lens before heading out the door. I was able to use the green dot for focus confirmation but I soon noted photos were over-exposed. I don't generally check images on the LCD screen at the back. In fact, I've reduced the time that displays to save the charge on the battery. But I did note the problem and checked to exposure compensation and everything was normal. Then I noticed it was impossible to gain focus at infinity and that even stopping down didn't solve the exposure issues. At one point I experimented by reducing exposure compensation, going down two stops and I still was overexposed at f/8. So something is amiss. Checking the images nothing was really sharp.
I mounted a 50 f/1.4 S.C. AI after throwing away all those photos and it metered without a problem. I can imagine the failure to gain focus means the lens needed adjustment but the problem with exposure is confusing to me. I'd welcome any comments. The lens is in EX+ condition physically and apart from a bit of dust in the lens I see nothing amiss optically. Does my Df not like pre-AI lenses? Is there a setting I messed up? Mmmm....Show more →
DeltaSigma wrote:
I am getting bored taking standard flower shots but the setting sun illuminated this patch in a nice way so I had to try to capture it. I was trying to get a sunstar effect as well but failed miserably.
Sooner I will reach 1k photos on free flickr account. I tried to create a new free account but a mobile phone required and I really do not want to give my number out.
All I need is just to extract bbcode to share photos here with you, no otherelse. Any advice for freesite which allows to make bbcode as good as flickr.
Thanks!
