Like the rainy deck composition Siphiwe, try it in BW!
Loved the flower-y headdress Serge.
Beautiful sticks and sunsets Matt
They do not make fuel pumps like they used to, Andy.
Ronny, that is one fantastic wispy flower, is the background all the lens? or is there some processing help?
Great eclipse photos everyone!!! The ingenuity price goes to James Markus!
Learned too late that there is a filter called H-Alpha that removes the white brightness from the sun and leaves the "Chromosphere" below, which is that reddish, grainy and flaming surface.
In my quest to play with lenses I bought an inexpensive EL-Nikkor 63mm 3.5, this lens was designed to print the negatives created with the Micro-Nikkor 70mm 1:5, which I own.
The Micro Nikkor 70mm 1:5 was designed to microfilm documents onto 70mm film, and is a successor to the R-Nikkor 5cm 3.5, meant to do the same on 35mm film.
I found the EL Nikkor 63mm to have the same behavior I had seen on the EL Nikkor 50mm 2.8, close-up they are excellent lenses, flat field, no focus shift with aperture, no chromatic aberration, very little distortion. These 63mm 3.5 were sselling for $800 due to havinf a fame of being great for UV, likely it si the same as other EL Nikkors for UV, I got mine rather cheap.
At a distance the 63mm has ugly sides, like the EL 50mm, but if you close it down to 1:8 or 1:11, it will look fantastic all across the frame. To open it wider you have to be closer to your subject.
These samples will show the lens at its best and will not really show the behavior I an describing.
M. Tanyflex in Flckr posts this interesting Nikon Branded serial 200003 lens with a Magnification factor of 30, my lens is branded Nippon Kogaku with serial 207XXX and no magnification factor print, else they look the same. That 200003 lens could be very unique, but still it looks pretty much the same, nice little M39 lens head.
Magnification factor of 30 with a 36mm frame means the lens is optimized for a ~1 Meter long front subject.
Addendum: looked into the regular 63mm 3.5 and it is designed for a 2x-20x range, that M-30 lens is really unique, got to get one!
Like the rainy deck composition Siphiwe, try it in BW!
Loved the flower-y headdress Serge.
Beautiful sticks and sunsets Matt
They do not make fuel pumps like they used to, Andy.
Ronny, that is one fantastic wispy flower, is the background all the lens? or is there some processing help?
Great eclipse photos everyone!!! The ingenuity price goes to James Markus!
Learned too late that there is a filter called H-Alpha that removes the white brightness from the sun and leaves the "Chromosphere" below, which is that reddish, grainy and flaming surface.
In my quest to play with lenses I bought an inexpensive EL-Nikkor 63mm 3.5, this lens was designed to print the negatives created with the Micro-Nikkor 70mm 1:5, which I own.
The Micro Nikkor 70mm 1:5 was designed to microfilm documents onto 70mm film, and is a successor to the R-Nikkor 5cm 3.5, meant to do the same on 35mm film.
I found the EL Nikkor 63mm to have the same behavior I had seen on the EL Nikkor 50mm 2.8, close-up they are excellent lenses, flat field, no focus shift with aperture, no chromatic aberration, very little distortion. These 63mm 3.5 were sselling for $800 due to havinf a fame of being great for UV, likely it si the same as other EL Nikkors for UV, I got mine rather cheap.
At a distance the 63mm has ugly sides, like the EL 50mm, but if you close it down to 1:8 or 1:11, it will look fantastic all across the frame. To open it wider you have to be closer to your subject.
These samples will show the lens at its best and will not really show the behavior I an describing.
M. Tanyflex in Flckr posts this interesting Nikon Branded serial 200003 lens with a Magnification factor of 30, my lens is branded Nippon Kogaku with serial 207XXX and no magnification factor print, else they look the same. That 200003 lens could be very unique, but still it looks pretty much the same, nice little M39 lens head.
Magnification factor of 30 with a 36mm frame means the lens is optimized for a ~1 Meter long front subject.
Addendum: looked into the regular 63mm 3.5 and it is designed for a 2x-20x range, that M-30 lens is really unique, got to get one!
Like the rainy deck composition Siphiwe, try it in BW!
Loved the flower-y headdress Serge.
Beautiful sticks and sunsets Matt
They do not make fuel pumps like they used to, Andy.
Ronny, that is one fantastic wispy flower, is the background all the lens? or is there some processing help?
Great eclipse photos everyone!!! The ingenuity price goes to James Markus!
Learned too late that there is a filter called H-Alpha that removes the white brightness from the sun and leaves the "Chromosphere" below, which is that reddish, grainy and flaming surface.
In my quest to play with lenses I bought an inexpensive EL-Nikkor 63mm 3.5, this lens was designed to print the negatives created with the Micro-Nikkor 70mm 1:5, which I own.
The Micro Nikkor 70mm 1:5 was designed to microfilm documents onto 70mm film, and is a successor to the R-Nikkor 5cm 3.5, meant to do the same on 35mm film.
I found the EL Nikkor 63mm to have the same behavior I had seen on the EL Nikkor 50mm 2.8, close-up they are excellent lenses, flat field, no focus shift with aperture, no chromatic aberration, very little distortion. These 63mm 3.5 were sselling for $800 due to havinf a fame of being great for UV, likely it si the same as other EL Nikkors for UV, I got mine rather cheap.
At a distance the 63mm has ugly sides, like the EL 50mm, but if you close it down to 1:8 or 1:11, it will look fantastic all across the frame. To open it wider you have to be closer to your subject.
These samples will show the lens at its best and will not really show the behavior I an describing.
M. Tanyflex in Flckr posts this interesting Nikon Branded serial 200003 lens with a Magnification factor of 30, my lens is branded Nippon Kogaku with serial 207XXX and no magnification factor print, else they look the same. That 200003 lens could be very unique, but still it looks pretty much the same, nice little M39 lens head.
Magnification factor of 30 with a 36mm frame means the lens is optimized for a ~1 Meter long front subject.
Addendum: looked into the regular 63mm 3.5 and it is designed for a 2x-20x range, that M-30 lens is really unique, got to get one!
Like the rainy deck composition Siphiwe, try it in BW!
Loved the flower-y headdress Serge.
Beautiful sticks and sunsets Matt
They do not make fuel pumps like they used to, Andy.
Ronny, that is one fantastic wispy flower, is the background all the lens? or is there some processing help?
Great eclipse photos everyone!!! The ingenuity price goes to James Markus!
Learned too late that there is a filter called H-Alpha that removes the white brightness from the sun and leaves the "Chromosphere" below, which is that reddish, grainy and flaming surface.
In my quest to play with lenses I bought an inexpensive EL-Nikkor 63mm 3.5, this lens was designed to print the negatives created with the Micro-Nikkor 70mm 1:5, which I own.
The Micro Nikkor 70mm 1:5 was designed to microfilm documents onto 70mm film, and is a successor to the R-Nikkor 5cm 3.5, meant to do the same on 35mm film.
I found the EL Nikkor 63mm to have the same behavior I had seen on the EL Nikkor 50mm 2.8, close-up they are excellent lenses, flat field, no focus shift with aperture, no chromatic aberration, very little distortion. These 63mm 3.5 were sselling for $800 due to havinf a fame of being great for UV, likely it si the same as other EL Nikkors for UV, I got mine rather cheap.
At a distance the 63mm has ugly sides, like the EL 50mm, but if you close it down to 1:8 or 1:11, it will look fantastic all across the frame. To open it wider you have to be closer to your subject.
These samples will show the lens at its best and will not really show the behavior I an describing.
M. Tanyflex in Flckr posts this interesting Nikon Branded serial 200003 lens with a Magnification factor of 30, my lens is branded Nippon Kogaku with serial 207XXX and no magnification factor print, else they look the same. That 200003 lens could be very unique, but still it looks pretty much the same, nice little M39 lens head.
Magnification factor of 30 with a 36mm frame means the lens is optimized for a ~1 Meter long front subject.
Addendum: looked into the regular 63mm 3.5 and it is designed for a 2x-20x range, that M-30 lens is really unique, got to get one!
Like the rainy deck composition Siphiwe, try it in BW!
Loved the flower-y headdress Serge.
Beautiful sticks and sunsets Matt
They do not make fuel pumps like they used to, Andy.
Ronny, that is one fantastic wispy flower, is the background all the lens? or is there some processing help?
Great eclipse photos everyone!!! The ingenuity price goes to James Markus!
Learned too late that there is a filter called H-Alpha that removes the white brightness from the sun and leaves the "Chromosphere" below, which is that reddish, grainy and flaming surface.
In my quest to play with lenses I bought an inexpensive EL-Nikkor 63mm 3.5, this lens was designed to print the negatives created with the Micro-Nikkor 70mm 1:5, which I own.
The Micro Nikkor 70mm 1:5 was designed to microfilm documents onto 70mm film, and is a successor to the R-Nikkor 5cm 3.5, meant to do the same on 35mm film.
I found the EL Nikkor 63mm to have the same behavior I had seen on the EL Nikkor 50mm 2.8, close-up they are excellent lenses, flat field, no focus shift with aperture, no chromatic aberration, very little distortion. These 63mm 3.5 were sselling for $800 due to havinf a fame of being great for UV, likely it si the same as other EL Nikkors for UV, I got mine rather cheap.
At a distance the 63mm has ugly sides, like the EL 50mm, but if you close it down to 1:8 or 1:11, it will look fantastic all across the frame. To open it wider you have to be closer to your subject.
These samples will show the lens at its best and will not really show the behavior I an describing.
M. Tanyflex in Flckr posts this interesting Nikon Branded serial 200003 lens with a Magnification factor of 30, my lens is branded Nippon Kogaku with serial 207XXX and no magnification factor print, else they look the same. That 200003 lens could be very unique, but still it looks pretty much the same, nice little M39 lens head.
Magnification factor of 30 with a 36mm frame means the lens is optimized for a ~1 Meter long front subject.
