Picked up an interesting new-to-me lens this week, a Pentax SMC-K 85mm f2.2 soft. "soft" of course means its a soft focus lens, and the soft focus feature is controlled by the aperture. The aperture range is only f2.2 to f5.6, with four click stops and fully variable between stops. At wide open (2.2) it's at its softest and at f5.6 it's actually fairly sharp. Manual focus only of course, and no stop down coupler so you get to see the actual depth of field and softness through the viewfinder.
Here's a test shot, wide open (softest).
Taken at a balloon festival on the Hudson River.
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The Iowa River is above flood stage, which is resulting in mild entertainment around UIowa.
Snapped this at 1/15 shutter. It's not the steadiest since everything is moving like crazy but I'm happy with the result.
It's monsoon season here...finally!
More Tucson. Tortolino Mts.
from a few weeks ago taken with my super awesome samsung galaxy note 2 on automatic :)... I was shooting announcements for Church... so much awesome gear in this pic 5dmk3 with a 50mm 1.4, 60d with 24-70 2.8L being the highlights... there is also the standard 70-200 2.8 isII in the bag (the two people in the shot are pro wedding 'tographers)... working on a DIY/ghetto teleprompter here soon... just love how versatile modern DSLRs are
Last night. Canon Rebel XSI / Canon EFS 55-250
One to go with yesterdays...
Flex? What is this flex you speak of?
Exploring some old mine locations near Payson, AZ.
Focal Length 56mm (84mm in 35mm)
Aperture f/10.0
Exposure Time 0.0031s (1/320)
Trying to take pictures of the California Redwoods, but these darn kids kept getting in my shots!
My wife from our river trip a few weeks ago. Fuji 50D slide film in my Yashica 35 GSN
pilotbraden wrote:
Get off my lawn!
Another slide, this time off a roll of Ektachrome EPP 100
And one more from that roll... pretty pretty slide film!
There's something special about transparencies. My father shot slides for years - there have to be hundreds, if not thousands, of them. I need to scan them at some point.
I haven't gotten into shooting it myself due primarily to problems of getting it developed locally. Plus my tendency not to meter. And the cost. And the fact that it seems to be drying up at the supply end. But they do look pretty. Have you used the Fuji slide films as well?
Pre-war car shot with a pre-war camera (Rolleiflex Type 621, 1933) on Kodak Ektar 100.
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