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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
01-28-2016, 04:13 PM
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
12-22-2015, 06:07 AM
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Very clever use of the often undesirable outlining of highlights to support the composition.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
12-21-2015, 08:11 AM
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Shot with a 80mm/2.8 Carl Zeiss Jena Biometar on a Pentacon-Six to K mount tilt adapter (no tilt), at F3.5 or F4.
This lens was sitting unused for a while because of the unreliability of the Pentacon Six. When I switched from a Canon EOS450 to the K-5 in 2011, I was looking around for nice 'legacy' lenses in Pentax mount, and I came across galleries claiming a specific 'Zeiss Look' for some adapted M42 Zeiss lenses. Doubtful, I was sure to find a similar 'special' look among my shallow DoF pictures, so I checked my archive. I indeed found it, and felt I had proven my conjecture that with the right conditions, exposure, aperture etc., the simple EF50/1.8 would also produce that look. It struck me when I checked the EXIF, that exactly those which I had picked must have been among the very few pictures taken with the Biometar adapted to the Canon, which I had given up because of the difficulty to focus it, and forgotten about.
So while this lens is neither very sharp wide open, nor is the contrast good below F4, nor is the bokeh free of fringes, it occasionally ends up on my camera.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
12-19-2015, 08:55 PM
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DA 35/2.4 surprised me with a nice rendering of the transition from focus to out-of-focus for the central leaves at close distances and f8.
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