Asturias in the fog with K 28mm f/2 "Hollywood"

28mm is usually not a focal length I use as a walk-around, especially on full-frame, but the speed of this lens and sharpness wide open mean I can get shallow depth of field when wanted and it seemed like a suitable length for a walk in the early morning fog in Asturias, northern Spain. These are from a few weeks back.


Asturias fog III by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr


Gate by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr


Sheep in the fog by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr


Tin by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr


Stopped at the fence by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr


Dried by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr


Cats by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr


Web by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr


Web II by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr


Tree in fog by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr

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Pentax hybrid user - Digital K3, film 645 and 35mm SLR and Pentax (&other) lenses adapted to Fuji X and Panasonic L digital
Fan of DA limited and old manual lenses

Nice. 28mm looks flexible. How have you found it generally?

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Very moody set and interesting compositions! My immediate favourites are "Stopped at the Fence" and "Web II". I would very much like to try the 28/2 Hollywood one day, it seems to have quite unique rendering.

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Bjørn

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The 28mm is very nice indeed - excellent image quality and sharp in the centre even wide open. It's big and heavy though, which makes many setups front-heavy. I also have both versions of the Vivitar 28/2 (also both nice lenses) and it's much sharper at or near maximum aperture, which is to be expected given the price difference.

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Pentax hybrid user - Digital K3, film 645 and 35mm SLR and Pentax (&other) lenses adapted to Fuji X and Panasonic L digital
Fan of DA limited and old manual lenses

Thanks for the response, Jonathan-Mac. Your work shows it off to its best.

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Lovely atmospheric set - the true quality is revealed when you look at these at full size, the detail (considering the conditions) is impressive, particularly for a 50 year old lens

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LennyBloke

I really really like that gate image

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Gareth
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