135mm woes
Posted 03/12/2011 - 22:10
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Hi chap, and many thanks for the comment. I was unable to edit my initial post, as re reading it, it is ambiguous as to which lens was used here. These are with the 135mm.
Re the sigma, it is the first edition non dg, but AF. I started using it as the AF is pretty reliable and as my eyesight was letting me down with the 135mm, it gave me a much higher "in focus" count.
Then there is a big but!...the old 135 feels so good on the K5, gives lovely sooc photographs, much lighter and discreet compared to the sigma, so I looked for help on its use.
I had initially been using it on Av wide open [ I think you had suggested this on someones post], this works well, but wanted to have more control over aperture and metering. Found out that by setting K5 to M, then set aperture to say 5.6, press green button, hey presto, stop down metering.
The other info. found on some links, was how to make focussing easier with a manual lens. Set camera to M focus, rotate barrel and green hexagon lights up . This happens over a different margin for each lens, so testing in and out of focus is required, so as to establish when it is most accurate i.e from infinity to close and vsvs. Once you know , then you can focus quickly and more accurately.
Hope that makes sense.
Nigel
Re the sigma, it is the first edition non dg, but AF. I started using it as the AF is pretty reliable and as my eyesight was letting me down with the 135mm, it gave me a much higher "in focus" count.
Then there is a big but!...the old 135 feels so good on the K5, gives lovely sooc photographs, much lighter and discreet compared to the sigma, so I looked for help on its use.
I had initially been using it on Av wide open [ I think you had suggested this on someones post], this works well, but wanted to have more control over aperture and metering. Found out that by setting K5 to M, then set aperture to say 5.6, press green button, hey presto, stop down metering.
The other info. found on some links, was how to make focussing easier with a manual lens. Set camera to M focus, rotate barrel and green hexagon lights up . This happens over a different margin for each lens, so testing in and out of focus is required, so as to establish when it is most accurate i.e from infinity to close and vsvs. Once you know , then you can focus quickly and more accurately.
Hope that makes sense.
Nigel
Posted 04/12/2011 - 20:50
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West Mids.
Here are some of my early attempts at applying what I found out.
1.[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v425/inamini/IMGP7977.jpg[/IMG]
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[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v425/inamini/IMGP8092.jpg[/IMG]
3.[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v425/inamini/IMGP8113.jpg[/IMG]
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[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v425/inamini/IMGP8008.jpg[/IMG]
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[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v425/inamini/IMGP8034.jpg[/IMG]
Let me know what you think.
Nigel