Lens Bubbles: sony next-6

Monday, July 8, 2013

Ropes

After shooting some infrared pictures at the dock with the Pentax-M 20mm f4 lens, I thought there might be a few more pictures that may look good using a longer focal length, as the 20mm lens was too wide for some of the shots I want to make. So today I went back there at lunch, and shot a few frame with the Soligor C/D 80-200mm f3.5 lens. I am quite happy with the turnout.

The Soligor C/D series of lenses are like the Vivitar Series-1; lenses with the C/D designation are their top of the line lenses. This particular lens is very good for a zoom. It's probably on par with the Vivitar Series-1 70-210mm f3.5 (there are at least two versions of this lens, 62mm and 67mm filter size), which became a cult classic. I like the build of the Soligor lens, which is all metal. This lens has a separate focus ring and a zoom ring (two touch zoom), which some hate and some love. I am neutral about this, but often turned the zoom ring to focus, for some reason. Maybe I am not used to shooting with zooms.

Life - NEX-6 & Soligor C/D 80-200mm f3.5 [MD]. Click for larger.

Tied up - NEX-6 & Soligor C/D 80-200mm f3.5 [MD]. Click for larger.

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

S.F.O.M 100mm f3.2 Projection Lens - More Samples

I took the S.F.O.M 100mm f3.2 lens for a walk at lunchtime to get to know it better. Some lenses, after the first few shots, you will know whether you are going to like it or not. This is one of these lenses. For one thing, this lens is surprisingly photographic. By that I mean it's feels, and it renders pictures, like a lens designed to take pictures, not to project them. The bokeh is very nice, and the lens is sharp; even the corners are quite good at its working aperture. Clearly, this lens was designed to project larger than 16mm format film. The aperture is not very fast for a projection lens, but I actually like it this way. Sometimes too thin a depth of field is too much of a good thing. This lens has become one of my favourite projection lenses.