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01-25-2013, 10:52 AM   #166
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QuoteOriginally posted by crewl1 Quote
I think in better light you can stop down further and get rid of it some more.
I added an older shot that I did with the Fotodiox and did not track the settings but it was a brighter environment so I assume I was able to stop down more.
I presume a f5.6 since the diffraction is not showing too bad.
This could be the sweet spot for the lens, I just need better light to confirm.
I would also guess F5.6 and I would try it to, but as you know my adapter makes it a guessing game with a lens without an aperture ring. I have a couple of lenses at higher priority too.
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Hi here it is quick n dirty flash pic
Looks pretty well balanced as I thought! Not too shabby of a size for a longer tele.

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I would also guess F5.6 and I would try it to, but as you know my adapter makes it a guessing game with a lens without an aperture ring. I have a couple of lenses at higher priority too.
Is it possible to get the Fotodiox w aperture in your part of the world? You could sell off your Kiwi, it would make your experience adapting newer lenses to the Q much more enjoyable I think.
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Is it possible to get the Fotodiox w aperture in your part of the world? You could sell off your Kiwi, it would make your experience adapting newer lenses to the Q much more enjoyable I think.
I'm sure I can get it, but I think I will wait a while and hope I get money for the original adapter (I'm unemployed).
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Yes, first things first. Best of luck.

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QuoteOriginally posted by crewl1 Quote
It's raining here so sorry for the crappy subjects.
It's gotta rain here sometime. Looks like the whole weekend will suck. I might try some lenses on test targets to pass the time.
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QuoteOriginally posted by VisualDarkness Quote
I'm sure I can get it, but I think I will wait a while and hope I get money for the original adapter (I'm unemployed).
Hi VD where have you found the fotodiox w/aperture in Europe? can only find on Amazon.com need to get one as well...
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Hi VD where have you found the fotodiox w/aperture in Europe? can only find on Amazon.com need to get one as well...
I think it's Amazon.com for us too but it should work just fine and don't get any more expensive than if it was available here.

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Canon FD 50mm f=1.8

I just bought a Pentax Q 2 weeks ago and same day I ordered a a Pentax Q - Canon FD adapter. I was expecting some zooming, but the lens + the adapter finally became on a big zoom, bigger than what I wanted. I'm looking now for a C mount , or D-mount that gives me a lomo like result, any recommendations ?

Actually the adapter I bought goes beyond infinity, so sometimes on fast shooting becomes tricky.

Anyway here you can see how the lens fits on the camera :



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On day light:




On low light conditions:

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Schneider Kreuznach Cinegon 1:1.9/11,5 C-mount

Heres my short review of the Schneider Kreuznach Cinegon 1:1.9/11,5 in C-mount (pew, what a name).

The lens feels solid but is a bit weird to handle due to the having the rings near the mount and is quite front heavy. I suspect that the front part from the black cone actually is an extra tele extender put on a shorter lens, the chrome part closest to the mount.

The lens mounted with a KIWI Q-C with a cardboard shim I cut to get infinity at infinity and not at half way.

F1.9



F2.8



F4



F5.6



F8



F11



This lens suffers heavily from flare! I think it lacks any coating or got a really brutal one and you should use a hood with lens.

I rate it as a good lens for somebody that wants something a bit longer than the 01 and for filming.
(Full sized test pics on flickr)

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Adding a couple of real life examples of the lens:


















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Tamron 28-75 f2.8 Continuous

Purple Fringing is well controlled, even wide open. At f2.8 there's a hint of a red fringe in OOF areas, but it's not distracting like purple fringe is. The lens is sadly pretty soft at f2.8. You can fix it to a point in post, but it's soft enough that significant detail is lost. At f2.8, the lens is significantly better at the tele end than it is at the wide. There's a little more of the red fringe at 28mm, it's softer, and strangely bright objects have a glow about them. This is gone by F4.

At F4 the lens performs very well, it's an amazing difference between 2.8 and 4, things are now reasonably sharp, and significant detail that was a smudgy blur at f2.8 can now be seen. There's no red fringing at either end. In fact, both wide and tele look excellent.

At f5.6 this lens is pretty damn amazing. Very sharp with lots of detail. Detail that was hinted at at f2.8 and shown at f4 is now extremely clear. But it's completely usable at f4. In fact, there's a stop between f4 and f5.6, but I didn't test there.

The only real downside is the lens has a very short focus throw, which makes it difficult to nail the focus perfectly, especially when hand holding.

Overall, a great lens.

When I compare the telephoto of the Tamron to my 100mm f3.5 macro, the Tamron is significantly sharper at f4 than the 100mm macro is at f3.5. The 100mm has significant purple fringing at f3.5 where the Tamron has none. However, one full stop up to f5.6 and the 100mm macro wins by a hair.


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28mm f4:


28mm f5.6


75mm f2.8


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75mm f5.6


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Pentax FA 28 to 80

I went through and tested all my K mount and most of my screw mount lenses today. I'll be posting them as I can.

First up - The Pentax FA 28 to 80 zoom.

All shots taken using Fotodiox adapter, tripod mounted, 2 second timer, no SR. All shot @ 5.6 as this seems to be the agreed upon sweet spot for most lenses on the Q and has shown to be true in my testing.

I used a test chart I got on eBay. I have no idea how it's supposed to be used. The listing said it came with instructions. It didn't. When I asked the company for instructions they referred me to an article on the internet about testing lenses that had nothing to do with the chart. Anyway, even without the technicals, all the tests I did today were done using the same chart so you can compare relative sharpness.

I've given an 800x800 crop of the center of the chart, and an 800x600 1:1 of whatever showed at the given focal length based at the center of the chart. No sharpening was applied in either case.


80mm - Center Crop


80mm - 1:1


65mm - Center Crop


65mm - 1:1


50mm - Center Crop


50mm - 1:1


35mm - Center Crop


35mm - 1:1


28mm - Center Crop


28mm - 1:1
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Thanks for the reviews Trashfunkel, Visual Darkness, ChopperCharles and Post-Eos. Adding them to the index.
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I'm doing this for each of my lenses, whenever there's a nice clear day to shoot that telephone pole target. Well, and whenever I have some free time. Expect several more to be posted in the next few weeks, as well as comparisons.

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QuoteOriginally posted by ChopperCharles Quote
I'm doing this for each of my lenses, whenever there's a nice clear day to shoot that telephone pole target. Well, and whenever I have some free time. Expect several more to be posted in the next few weeks, as well as comparisons.

Charles.
I'm glad you're doing this with the same target. It makes it much easier to compare. I'm using the test target so mine are all the same. Yours are real world and think that's a little better than mine. I just have nothing suitable outside my door.

You and I only have 1 lens in common, the F35 to 70. It'll be interesting to see how they match up with the two different targets.
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I'm looking forward to comparing the F35-70 to my Tokina 35-70. I'd be interested to see some teleconverter comparisons too. I have a really crappy 2x tele that I can't get to make a sharp image to save my life, and I'm interested in finding one that's reasonably priced and reasonably sharp, especially on the Q.

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