You've definitely found a great location to take photos Ben. Am really enjoying this series you've been sharing. Nothing like cobbled streets to add character to an image. Your processing also adds character to these shots.
And, of course we love the 20 f/3.5. I bought mine from Chuong a few years ago when he found himself with a surplus... It seems to like you Z7. Thanks for these.
I was really surprised to find this Haworthia sp. blooming for the first time in the yard—especially since they don’t tolerate lots of water and we’re having a typical Portland springtime with rain, rain, and even more rain.
I've been looking for a 35mm 1.4 "K" lens for over 10 years, but have never seen one for sale. I really didn't know that they were particularly rare until I looked up the production numbers on Roland Vink's site. Apparently only 4488 were produced from 1975-77. When I first started picking up K lenses and conversion rings, I bought the Ai kit #30 in anticipation of finding the 35. It sat in a drawer, collecting dust, until I gave up on the search. Recently, my interest in manual glass has been renewed, and I decided to take a look on the auction site. I found the lens - although it did not mention "Ai" or non-Ai" anywhere in the title of the listing. The photos left something to be desired, but the serial number was clear. Unfortunately, I didn't have a lot of time to really investigate or ask questions, as the auction was ending. So I threw out a bid near the end of the auction...and now I have a mint condition 35 1.4. All I've got to do now is figure out how to dislodge the five stubborn 45-year-old screws in the mount to change out the aperture ring. My collection is almost complete...
Here's a quick shot of the lens (but not taken with a manual lens):
Whatever you do, DO NOT use regular Philips screwdrivers. Use Japanese standard JIS, get them in Amazon. put a tiny amount of solvent in the screw to loosen the 'Loctite' Nikon applied, and use moderate force - do not force them, you will be fine. I did ruin a couple of lenses replacing the aperture ring, so trust me I know.
bruni wrote:
Kevin - thank you, I'll try it. Yes, of course if you're running a VM with everything going it's reasonable to expect some overheating. I guess I'm just angry at myself for making a lazy choice. I was tired of doing the research and went for what I knew.
George - I'm struggling with Italian, everything gets lost across that pond!
Rafael - congratulations - another beauty! You said your collection is almost complete; what could possibly be missing?
Ben
Ben, I need a half dozen 58mm 1,2, three 6mm 2.8, one 13mm 5.6, a 10mm 5.6 OP, and a 300mm 2.0, that's all.
Until then I am quite happy about having swapped the wrong lens delivery, the less than perfect 85mm 1.8 is going back to its righful owner and my hopefully perfect 105mm 2.5 is arriving Thursday, there was no info on the glass condition but I can hope.
leighton w wrote:
Ben, try installing Turbo Boost Switcher and turn off the CPU's turbo boost function.
Leighton - thank you, I'll try it. I watched the video where he explains that this works by limiting performance. I'm a bit worried that that might be counterproductive. I don't care about the heat or the fan noise, it's the performance hit mid-editing that bothers me so it seems paradoxical to solve the stalling problem by limiting performance, but, I'll try. Kevin's app has helped, so who knows.
Curtis - thank you. The 20mm f3.5 is a sentimental favourite because it's the first manual focus lens I bought. I was new to photography. I didn't think I could focus manually and I would have been too nervous to buy an used lens online, from a stranger on the other side of the world. Ah, those were the days, when I still had some money in my account.
Anyway, there was a camera store opposite where I worked and he sold a lot of vintage cameras and lenses. He kept the rarer lenses in a glass cabinet . That's a great marketing trick; put it in a locked cabinet which the customer has to request be opened and it automatically becomes "special". Inside that cabinet, surrounded by vintage Leica was this black and silver beauty. He told me it's history, said it was a great bargain (it wasn't) and he put it on his own D700 to show me how easy it would be to use. All unnecessary of course, I'd fallen at first sight. Over the coming months I bought every manual focus lens that wasn't nailed down. I even ventured online and started to buy from overseas, and that was the beginning of my ruination.
Speaking of which - Rafael - why do you "need" 6 58mms and 3 6mms? Wouldn't one pristine sample of each be enough, maybe 2 for backup? Another gorgeous lens btw, congrats.
bruni wrote:
Leighton - thank you, I'll try it. I watched the video where he explains that this works by limiting performance. I'm a bit worried that that might be counterproductive. I don't care about the heat or the fan noise, it's the performance hit mid-editing that bothers me so it seems paradoxical to solve the stalling problem by limiting performance, but, I'll try. Kevin's app has helped, so who knows.
Curtis - thank you. The 20mm f3.5 is a sentimental favourite because it's the first manual focus lens I bought. I was new to photography. I didn't think I could focus manually and I would have been too nervous to buy an used lens online, from a stranger on the other side of the world. Ah, those were the days, when I still had some money in my account.
Anyway, there was a camera store opposite where I worked and he sold a lot of vintage cameras and lenses. He kept the rarer lenses in a glass cabinet . That's a great marketing trick; put it in a locked cabinet which the customer has to request be opened and it automatically becomes "special". Inside that cabinet, surrounded by vintage Leica was this black and silver beauty. He told me it's history, said it was a great bargain (it wasn't) and he put it on his own D700 to show me how easy it would be to use. All unnecessary of course, I'd fallen at first sight. Over the coming months I bought every manual focus lens that wasn't nailed down. I even ventured online and started to buy from overseas, and that was the beginning of my ruination.
Speaking of which - Rafael - why do you "need" 6 58mms and 3 6mms? Wouldn't one pristine sample of each be enough, maybe 2 for backup? Another gorgeous lens btw, congrats.
more cobblestones Curtis. This was the picture I meant to take but the little girl stepped in front of the camera. It's funny how the "accident" is more interesting than the pic I intended.
And those would have to be Rafael-quality. When you get there and post the line up on the thread, look forward to that sight!!
