rafaelcasd wrote:
Kenneth, my hat off to you, this is a perfectly beautiful composition and the processing is just incredible, the elements are so well placed it really comes across as a painting, where the artist had full placement control.
However, for this thread the lens needs to be a manual focus Nikon lens, not an AF manually focused.
We have accepted manual focus lenses on the AF TC 16a, and also will likely accept a manual focus lens on a focusing mirrorless adapter - but not AF lenses.
I don't own the thread, other opinions are welcome.
rafaelcasd wrote:
Kenneth, my hat off to you, this is a perfectly beautiful composition and the processing is just incredible, the elements are so well placed it really comes across as a painting, where the artist had full placement control.
Thank you very much !
However, for this thread the lens needs to be a manual focus Nikon lens, not an AF manually focused.
We have accepted manual focus lenses on the AF TC 16a, and also will likely accept a manual focus lens on a focusing mirrorless adapter - but not AF lenses.
This Friday Cruising Grand was just ordinary cars, but as always a relaxed and happy crowd in warm but not hot weather. Took the Nikkor 5cm 2.0 LTM for a spin
Sorry for the long post, trying to give a sense of the place, I am bad at people street photography.
The apertures are lost thanks to using the Z camera, but the lens goes soft on the sides at distance for apertures up to 4.0. Best to use at 5.6 to 11 where it can be quite sharp. Close up the large apertures get better. This set shows images through the aperture range.
The news must have thought so
The 5cm 2.0 LTM gets getter as you focus closer, further away it is best to close it down. Check this guys hair on Flickr.
The Stingray is awesome and my pick of the litter. Gotta love the reflections off the paint.
I suspect you would have full use of the aperture ring with a dumb adapter. I could not loose that function as it is a big part of the charm using manual focus lenses.
serge07 wrote:
Rafael, most excellent series of the classics!
The Stingray is awesome and my pick of the litter. Gotta love the reflections off the paint.
I suspect you would have full use of the aperture ring with a dumb adapter. I could not loose that function as it is a big part of the charm using manual focus lenses.
Serge
Sorry Serge, I should have said the aperture information is lost from the EXIF file, as no adapter communicates that to the Z camera. The aperture ring works just fine with lenses mounted on Z adapters.
Have a pitch to make to the large format sensor users here.
The old telephoto lens heads are excellent performers and cover the large format easily. They were originally sold in several large format mounts.
These are obviously not action lenses, but if your subject is not moving too fast they will do the work.
The practical problem for me is that once mounted on a tripod, the focusing helicoid at the middle bears the full weight of the camera, add a heavy DSLR and focusing becomes painfully slow and inaccurate.
To the rescue come two items, the light weight Z cameras with accurate viewfinder for manual focus, and a focusing Z adapter of good quality. Now the lens can be roughly set to focus on its own helicoid and a quick fine adjust done on the focusing Z adapter for very accurate results, the focusing distance range from the focusing adapter I own is very decent as well.
below are some ugly but useful test shots, see them at 100% on Flickr, in my opinion this is quite good performance.
Substitute the FTZ with a good quality adapter with a helicoid. Tried the TC-16a with a DSLR but it did not fit the lens.
My Shoten FZ1 adapter arrived this week. Ordered from Amazon Japan and it arrived within 3 days vs. the 1-2 month estimate on ebay.
Imo this is so far the best-looking adapter for manual Nikkors, also a bit nicer than their 1st gen adapter. Quality is very good, no wobble, metal finish extremely similar to that of the Ai-S lenses.
They also make a silver version which fits the Z fc nicely, but I think they should actually make a mixed color version that is silver up to the silver ring and black from thereon.
Now all I need is a full-frame Z f. Come on Nikon!
fjablo wrote:
My Shoten FZ1 adapter arrived this week. Ordered from Amazon Japan and it arrived within 3 days vs. the 1-2 month estimate on ebay.
Imo this is so far the best-looking adapter for manual Nikkors, also a bit nicer than their 1st gen adapter. Quality is very good, no wobble, metal finish extremely similar to that of the Ai-S lenses.
They also make a silver version which fits the Z fc nicely, but I think they should actually make a mixed color version that is silver up to the silver ring and black from thereon.
Now all I need is a full-frame Z f. Come on Nikon!
This page is too good. So much variety of subject matter. The market photos are superb, Leighton. I see the old friend (28 2.8) is back, Serge. I love the last picture. Felix, I thought the original adapter was nice. The new one is indeed better. Rafael, you are spoilt with so much to shoot every weekend at Cruising Grand.
