[Pete82]

My latest acquisitions.
The first one is for my father (7 years today) and the next one for his brother. RIP dudes.
(shot with some phone)

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[timb64]

My latest acquisitions.
The first one is for my father (7 years today) and the next one for his brother. RIP dudes.
(shot with some phone)

Sláinte!

[ivanvernon]

My latest acquisitions.
The first one is for my father (7 years today) and the next one for his brother. RIP dudes.
(shot with some phone)

So both your father and uncle have passed on? So you are going to pour these precious gifts over their graves? :>)

[Pete82]

So both your father and uncle have passed on? So you are going to pour these precious gifts over their graves? :>)

Well, something like that, figuratively speaking.

Unfortunately they had quite many siblings... I feel like two bottles is already enough.

[ivanvernon]

Well, something like that, figuratively speaking.

Unfortunately they had quite many siblings... I feel like two bottles is already enough.

Figuratively, of course, and quite a magnificent tribute. I would agree that two bottles should be quite enough, although one recalls en passant that there are often various sizes of bottles available. Great acquisition, and far more interesting than my electric fence to keep the deer out of the flower garden.

[Pete82]

Figuratively, of course, and quite a magnificent tribute. I would agree that two bottles should be quite enough, although one recalls en passant that there are often various sizes of bottles available. Great acquisition, and far more interesting than my electric fence to keep the deer out of the flower garden.

That's a good point. I am just getting over with my father's passing away and it seems like there is still a lot to do with my uncle's

[aslyfox]

well if life isn't complicated enough

just arranged to take possession on June 3 or thereabouts

a female German Shepard puppy which was born on April 15

[edom31]

Panagor PMC Auto-Macro 90mm 2.8 - in OM mount, so likely will be used with the secondary system.

[Jonathan Mac]

An A7iii. Having tried one out in store a short while back, I was more than pleasantly surprised with it. Will be adapting all my vintage lenses onto it, seeing as they're what I opt for 99.9% of the time anyway.

Makes a lot of sense to go FF mirrorless if you use vintage lenses most of the time. Sometimes I think I could get by with a good FF mirrorless, a good native fast fifty and then use vintage lenses for all the rest, then I realise that LBA would pull me in, and FF mirrorless LBA is lot more expensive than APS-C.

[Benz3ne]

Makes a lot of sense to go FF mirrorless if you use vintage lenses most of the time. Sometimes I think I could get by with a good FF mirrorless, a good native fast fifty and then use vintage lenses for all the rest, then I realise that LBA would pull me in, and FF mirrorless LBA is lot more expensive than APS-C.

I've had either a Helios 44-2, SMC-K 55mm f/1.8 or a Voigtlander Ultron 40mm f/2 stuck to the front of my (now former) camera for a good while now. I've opted for 1x AF lens in the Samyang 45mm f/1.8 which is getting good press as an inexpensive option, but I'll certainly be sticking to legacy glass*.

*In short, my LBA won't have changed as I'll still be on the lookout for PK and M42 lenses!

The only other AF options that are grabbing my eye are the small Samyang AF ones - there's an 18mm f/2.8, 24mm f/2.8, 35mm f/2.8 and now a 75mm f/1.8, all of which are sub-£400, some of which can be had for sub-£200 used, so not hugely expensive in the grand scheme. All getting very good press.

[stevebrot]

An A7iii. Having tried one out in store a short while back, I was more than pleasantly surprised with it. Will be adapting all my vintage lenses onto it, seeing as they're what I opt for 99.9% of the time anyway.

Cool! I have toyed with the idea of getting a Sony for adapted lenses, but the EVF and has been the main obstacle.


Steve

[carlthellama]

I've had either a Helios 44-2, SMC-K 55mm f/1.8 or a Voigtlander Ultron 40mm f/2 stuck to the front of my (now former) camera for a good while now. I've opted for 1x AF lens in the Samyang 45mm f/1.8 which is getting good press as an inexpensive option, but I'll certainly be sticking to legacy glass*.

*In short, my LBA won't have changed as I'll still be on the lookout for PK and M42 lenses!

The only other AF options that are grabbing my eye are the small Samyang AF ones - there's an 18mm f/2.8, 24mm f/2.8, 35mm f/2.8 and now a 75mm f/1.8, all of which are sub-£400, some of which can be had for sub-£200 used, so not hugely expensive in the grand scheme. All getting very good press.

I thought the same when I got my first mirrorless, that I was only going to use my vintage manual lenses..... then I realized Sony made an autofocus adapter for A mount lenses...... LBA got the best of me after that. Also there are autofocus adapters nikon and Canon as well. If only I could get a Pentax to Sony emount auto focus adapter....

[pepperberry farm]

and here is the Auto-Topcor 58mm f1.4 - posing next to what Cosina would use the same optical package in: the Voigtlander Nokton 58mm f1.4 SL II

[stevebrot]

and here is the Auto-Topcor 58mm f1.4 - posing next to what Cosina would use the same optical package in: the Voigtlander Nokton 58mm f1.4 SL II

Oh....different helicoid pitch between the two...interesting!


Steve

[Benz3ne]

and here is the Auto-Topcor 58mm f1.4 - posing next to what Cosina would use the same optical package in: the Voigtlander Nokton 58mm f1.4 SL II

A thing of beauty... TWO things of beauty.