All shot w/a $50 eBay special SMC Pentax-A 50mm f/1.7, and a $450 eBay special Pentax 1.7x AF TC (I was in a hurry to buy it a year back for a trip, which turned out to be complete unnecessary as I didn't use it on my trip :ugh
.... making a 85mm f/2.8 (ish) AF lens. Beauty of the day was using revered 'old glass' pretty much as 'point & shoot', getting focus close but letting the TC do the hard work.
Yes, the TC brings about CA with even the mildest of highlight unless I stop down, and some other problems. But to cut to the chase...
I'm
floored by the sharpenss color and contrast I got. Most of these are JPGs right from the camera. I can't remember the last time I used a JPG out of the camera opposed to a JPG made from the PEF. I just don't usually get enough 'punch' to make me happy. I
am happy w/these!
Anyway so, hope you like my 'model'... her name is "mrs. m8o" , so...
...try not to be too critical... she wasn't do'n this to get payed!
You can't imagine how happy I was she let me take her picture!!!
I'll specify which were spiffed up RAW conversions; otherwise they're JPGs from the camera. These initial two, were from RAW conversions.
Bummer shot was ruined by shake, and glare from a lack of having a hood. Lightroom-ified again. But I did
not punch up the color or vividness! I'm impressed.
These next many are right from the camera...
She wasn't happy I made her sit on the remnants of the post... her legs aren't
that short. After about 4 shots, she was done w/that.
I cut off her feet... I suk @ this... Only cropped a bit. This leads up to the next two:
Surprised @ the DOF here w/o trying. I'm pretty amazed @ the following two actually, based on my past experience taking shell shots:
All but those two @ the onset were right from the camera. Then these following two were worked over a bit and cropped; but still very close to what the larger JPG was. I actually thought this shot was a miss. I was floored when I looked @ it on my computer:
Cropped to about 2/3 frame
Cropped to about 1/3 frame
All those shot here...
To get to another thing to be concerned with...
can be susceptible to flare. That could be that I don't have a hood. It might be because of the old "Skylight Filter" I left on that it came with. Obviously the angle to the light doesn't help. Well, nothing's perfect!
All here...
A Lovely Day in Mattituck - 08/27/2008 album | m8o | Fotki.com There's some pics of a really nice Cobra... and my MINI
.... A whole bunch of 4 dogs chasing rocks into the water that I probably won't post until tomorrow night... and some more of these:
(straight from the camera again)
Congrats if you got this far!