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And this time it's the Tamron 500 f8 mirror lens ....
Lots of time and lots of old glass to play with. Yesterday was the turn of a 500mm mirror lens. These get a bad press because if you don't nail the focus to precision at that sort of magnification it looks awful and some people hate the donut shaped OOF highlights you get now and then. So here i...
Posted by davidwozhere on 28/04/2020 - 01:06
And this time it's the Tamron 500 f8 mirror lens ....
Thank you for your kind comments. Nuri. I don't think you'd do too well birding with one of these. The focus is tricky, it is a very long throw and birds don't sit still very long! Chris. I did a closer shot that doesn't need cropping. Here it is but I prefer the other one with a bit more room ...
Posted by davidwozhere on 29/04/2020 - 00:39
Test photos from my new lens,
Well the first pic definitely shows its a sharp lens. Pic 2 looks like focus was hit but the shutter speed was the enemy as it has some motion blur from camera shake.
Posted by cardiffgareth on 05/05/2020 - 12:32
lap wing
Dance of the masked lapwing I think that should be:) First day back out among nature Thanks for looking
Posted by 08tiger on 02/05/2020 - 05:20
Roadside snaps
Just outside my house is a road verge with wild flowers so I took a snap about a month ago of a cowslip, and today of some others. Where the cowslips grow is a very wide verge and it used to be covered with cowslips and oxe-eye daisies but since some highway or services agency dumped a load of subs...
Posted by RobL on 02/05/2020 - 16:17
Roadside snaps
Lovely daisies in 3, the bright and crisp flowers against the out of focus stems work quite well.
Posted by Sry on 03/05/2020 - 16:20
Diners
So many verticals and horizontals making several compartments are all held together by that simple, overall colour scheme. Super composition. Going back to it, I just noticed there are two of everything - something else to make it hang together so well.
Posted by davidwozhere on 03/05/2020 - 23:26
Diners
Thank to the Davids, Sry and Gareth I take it this is pre lockdown ?! Taken back in 2013
Posted by bforbes on 05/05/2020 - 12:46
Diners
Thank to the Davids, Sry and Gareth I take it this is pre lockdown ?! Taken back in 2013 Just before then :lol:
Posted by cardiffgareth on 05/05/2020 - 19:04
SMC Takumar 1:2.5/135 - another day's lockdown, another lens.
If lockdown has an up side it's got to be the time and motivation to get all your lenses out. From what I have discovered, this one has at least three variants (four if you include the K 135). Of the Takumars, the final version with eight aperture leaves is reckoned to be the best. I put it onto...
Posted by davidwozhere on 03/05/2020 - 23:09
SMC Takumar 1:2.5/135 - another day's lockdown, another lens.
Nice set taken with a great lens - so solid, smooth and well engineered. That short minimum focus is a great feature on a lens that has so few weaknesses. And.... ...no apologies David, just keep em coming :wink:
Posted by LennyBloke on 04/05/2020 - 09:53
SMC Takumar 1:2.5/135 - another day's lockdown, another lens.
These look very good. I have the K version but haven't used it much yet. I'd break it out but don't currently have it with me where I'm quarantined. I know what you mean about flower pictures - they've always been a fall-back for when I don't have anything more interesting to photograph, and th...
Posted by Jonathan-Mac on 04/05/2020 - 11:11
Harris and Lewis Pt 1
Hi all... in January of this year, back in a previous life, some way before lockdown when we were allowed to well, actually go out, I managed to get away up to the Outer Hebrides in my van for a few days. It's always a treat to be able to make the trip, and has become almost an annual event for me,...
Posted by thingsthatihaveseen on 04/05/2020 - 08:36
Harris and Lewis Pt 1
Thanks Al, Rick, Peter, John L, Phil, John R, John S, Haris, Serge, Peter, Barrie, Gareth and Ben... was quite a trip... Al and Rick, yes, the wind had started to drop by the time I got out to the bottom end of Lewis... pretty exposed headland, so glad of it... ended up having a very beautiful e...
Posted by thingsthatihaveseen on 05/05/2020 - 20:24
Harris and Lewis Pt 1
Oh my, I haven't been to Harris and Lewis since I was a child, I want to go back for a while. A beautiful set Bill. No 1 I think is fabulous. Of the Mangersta Sea Stacks it's No 6 that wins out in a tightly run contest. just a lovely set.
Posted by Nigelk on 05/05/2020 - 22:06
Harris and Lewis Pt 1
Thanks Karlo and Nigel for thoughts re these... yes, cheers for thoughts re 1... there is def a kind of viscous thing going on... Nigel, def worth a trip back as and when you can... lovely mixture of a lot of very good things... Karlo, thanks for thoughts... sorry to be a bit hasty with my rou...
Posted by thingsthatihaveseen on 07/05/2020 - 07:17
Arthur Bell
I think the word "Vibrancy" sums this shot up ;) Beautifully sharp and perfect selective focus 8)
Posted by LennyBloke on 06/05/2020 - 13:34
Macro's don't always need to be sharp, do they?
The first one is very good. It looks like you used a soft focus lens
Posted by pschlute on 06/05/2020 - 23:22
Malta (3)
Hello everyone, here are the last images I have edited from my short stay in Malta last summer. Not a coherent set, just the last few that made it before cleaning out the folder... The first three were in the hallway to a (closed) museum I took refuge in from a downpour. The skylights had thes...
Posted by Sry on 08/05/2020 - 15:55
Hockney Had It Easy With Hawthorn...
Lovely warm light and enough in focus to keep the eye happy. Wouldn’t want to pick a favourite from these, Steve - for me, they’re all equally attractive.
Posted by jvs on 09/05/2020 - 06:43
