Tag: adapted lens

Stacked Up

Post author By David M
Post date 17/02/2021
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This is my contribution to the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Stack prompt.

I had a couple of ideas for the challenge before changing direction completely. I had my table top studio and lights set up and had been adapting various lenses to a couple of mirrorless cameras. Having spent 5 minutes looking through a plastic tote for the correct adapter at one point I decided two things. First, I would stack some of the adapters up for a photo for this challenge. Then I would try to find a better way to organise the various adapters.

There’s 11 different adapters stacked up fitting 5 different lens mounts and 4 different camera mounts.

Tags adapted lens, detail, fpj-photo-challenge, stacked, studio, table top

Photo Challenges

A New Lens

Post author By David M
Post date 16/02/2021
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This is my contribution to Nancy’s A Photo a Week Challenge: Something New prompt.

This is my latest unusual lens. A tiny 25mm CCTV lens adapted to a mirrorless camera. I purchased it to replace one that the focusing mechanism keeps jamming on.

Photographed using a cheap 35mm CCTV lens adapted to a mirrorless camera. I used my new LED studio lights with a red filter on one of the lights.

Tags 25mm f/1.4 CCTV lens, 35mm f/1.7 CCTV lens, adapted lens, CCTV lens, detail, Photo a Week, postaday, studio, table top

Photo Challenges

Jujubes

Post author By David M
Post date 07/01/2021
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This is my contribution to Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge: January Close Up or Macro.

Jujubes (or Ju-jubes or JuJubes, take your pick) photographed with a cheap 35mm CCTV lens adapted to a mirrorless camera. An experiment that didn’t really work out as expected. The lens doesn’t seem to produce the swirly, streaking corners and edges when close focused.

Tags 35mm f/1.7 CCTV lens, adapted lens, candy, CCTV lens, close up, CMMC, colourful, detail, studio

Photo Challenges

Autumn Maple Leaves

This is my contribution to Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge: Macro or close up prompt.

Three Maple leaves in the autumn photographed with a cheap 35mm f/1.7 CCTV lens adapted to a mirrorless camera. I rather like the strange swirly background the lens can produce at times.

Taken on one of my walks around the neighborhood with an unusual lens on the camera.

Tags 35mm f/1.7 CCTV lens, adapted lens, autumn, autumn colour, CCTV lens, close up, CMMC, leaves, Maple, Sony a6000

2020

Ivy in soft afternoon light

Post author By David M
Post date 06/11/2020
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This Ivy growing up a tree trunk on the South Bruce Peninsula is a regular subject on my walks around the neighborhood.

Taken on a recent walk when I had a cheap 35mm CCTV lens adapted to the mirrorless camera I was using. I rather like the soft, slightly swirly edges of the frame the lens produces.