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Paul's Photo Wibblings

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05/08/14

The Legacy Continues

Having played with Beth's lens my own "legacy" lens arrived on Friday. It's a Minolta MC.W Rokkor 35mm f/2.8 so that's equivalent to a 52.5mm on a 35mm full frame - pretty close to the standard 50mm kit lens that most SLR film cameras came with. Here's a photo from my first play with it.  read more ...

28/07/14

Legacy Can Be Good

One of the joys of the current crop of mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras like the Sony NEX-3N and NEX-6 which Beth and I use now is that because the sensor is so close to the lens mount you can use old SLR lens on them with the aid of a cheap conversion shim. This opens up all sorts of possibilities as there's a lot of great lens out there from the still very expensive to the remarkably cheap.  read more ...

07/08/12

Chained

You've got to start somewhere so here's a photo taken with my new camera, which arrived yesterday. It's a Samsung EX1 which I picked up on eBay, ex-demo stock, for a song. I was after a PASM compact and this one appealed to me, especially as it had a very fast F1.8 lens, as this photograph illustrates, letting me play with depth of field. It's still a small sensor, nothing like as big as micro four-thirds, but it's twice the size of a typical compact.

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