All pictures below taken with Sony A7 and Rodenstock Heligon 50mm f2:
Showing posts with label Lake Ontario. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lake Ontario. Show all posts
Saturday, January 10, 2015
Rodenstock Heligon 50mm f2 - Photo Set
I really like this Rodenstock Heligon 50mm f2. It's so small, and yet beautiful to look at and take pictures with. No complains with the optical quality. Below are few more pictures taken with it.
All pictures below taken with Sony A7 and Rodenstock Heligon 50mm f2:
All pictures below taken with Sony A7 and Rodenstock Heligon 50mm f2:
Saturday, January 18, 2014
The Little Ice Breaker
During extreme winter temperatures, part of Lake Ontario, here for example, in Toronto Harbourfront, would freeze. This creates a problem for small boats that must travel along this water. There are three ferries that carry passengers from Toronto to the three islands nearby everyday. To make it easy (or possible) for these boats to travel, a small Fire Rescue boat, doubles as an icebreaker, would travel between the three islands and break up the ice. The red colour of the boat really stands out in a bed of white ice, especially when snow is on the ice.
Little red icebreaker - Canon 5D II & EF 70-200mm f4L IS.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
The Love of Old Lenses
People who use auto focus lenses exclusively have a hard time understanding our obsession over seemingly useless old lenses. What's the point? My usual answer is "it's fun!"
Yes it's fun, but there is something more fulfilling and tangible - the unique characters that some of these old wonders wove into the images that make them so enticing and attractive to look at. They provide an alternative to the modern, sharp, contrasty, and highly corrected images that look perfect, but lack characters. Many very old lenses are usually full of "faults" of one kind or the other. They vignette badly, they flare like crazy, they have low contrast, they may have horrendous distortion, they have bokeh so horrible that make your skin crawl, and so on. Well, is your partner perfect? Do you want a partner that looks/acts the same as everyone else? We like our partners because they have characters and traits that stand out from others.
So yes. It's worth the time to make those odd-ball lenses usable on the digital cameras; to endure the disgusted look of some people looking at my ugly Franken Lenses. Because we love our old lenses and the kind of pictures that they can create.
Yes it's fun, but there is something more fulfilling and tangible - the unique characters that some of these old wonders wove into the images that make them so enticing and attractive to look at. They provide an alternative to the modern, sharp, contrasty, and highly corrected images that look perfect, but lack characters. Many very old lenses are usually full of "faults" of one kind or the other. They vignette badly, they flare like crazy, they have low contrast, they may have horrendous distortion, they have bokeh so horrible that make your skin crawl, and so on. Well, is your partner perfect? Do you want a partner that looks/acts the same as everyone else? We like our partners because they have characters and traits that stand out from others.
So yes. It's worth the time to make those odd-ball lenses usable on the digital cameras; to endure the disgusted look of some people looking at my ugly Franken Lenses. Because we love our old lenses and the kind of pictures that they can create.
Sailboat - NEX-6 & AM [Ross Xpress] 5 inch f4 @ f5.6.
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