Grahame Posted May 17 Report Share Posted May 17 1 hour ago, crappyjones123 said: @crappyjones123 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knuckledragger Posted May 18 Author Report Share Posted May 18 I dug out and fired up my 30D for the first time in 6? 7? 8? years today. There were a number of false starts. I had to set the time (it had only lost half an hour, which is amazing) and it didn't like the first three CF cards I fed it. Finally, it stopped complaining and I tried some shots with 50/1.4. Confirming things worked, I immediately reached for my ancient Meyer-Optik Orestor 135mm F/2.8 "bokeh monster." My purpose was to photograph to old old widgets that belonged to my grandfather. I had the benighted notion to post the images to reddit's /r/whatisthisthing, but that subreddit has a slew of poorly defined rules and an aggressive AutoMod bot so they can individually and collectively go F themselves. With that said, I took a whole bunch of artistically questionable shots of two 19th century objects while making egregious and unnecessary use of a shallow depth of field: Old East German glass is a hoot. See more here and more broadly my use of manual focus lenses here. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grahame Posted May 20 Report Share Posted May 20 Have you ever taken a photograph, that could have been black and white, but wasn't. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsavitsk Posted May 20 Report Share Posted May 20 9 hours ago, Grahame said: Have you ever taken a photograph, that could have been black and white, but wasn't. 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knuckledragger Posted May 20 Author Report Share Posted May 20 I own one of the red ones. I have never successfully taken a photo with it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted May 20 Report Share Posted May 20 Not only did I take [a few] photos, I took [a few] photos at headphone gatherings. I also got suckered into the Light.io camera. 🤕 Well, basically pulled into all the Valley origin camera companies. Stay strong Foveon! And, I guess, Apple and Google. 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted May 20 Report Share Posted May 20 (edited) 14 hours ago, Grahame said: Have you ever taken a photograph, that could have been black and white, but wasn't. Almost on my last trip to San Francisco. Edited May 20 by blessingx 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grahame Posted May 20 Report Share Posted May 20 48 minutes ago, blessingx said: Almost on my last trip to San Francisco. Well that definitely wasn't . I was thinking of a scene that looks desaturated, but isn't. It just appears that way. It's just the lighting etc. An opposite to your photo would be desaturated Santa. https://brodyqat.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/desaturated-santa/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted May 21 Report Share Posted May 21 Yeah, another attempt at a joke. Near monochrome scene until either someone pissed off another at the artist studios over by the train station, or the drugs took effect. Thankfully one car over, not mine. In other news TTArtisan not long ago released a really cheap (like $200 new, $170 used) tilt (not shift) 50mm f/1.4 FF lens in a variety of mounts. Not sure how likely I’d use for its intended purpose, but been fun this week to experiment with other ones around the house. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeymad Posted May 21 Report Share Posted May 21 took this almost b&w photo last year (just a touch of green showed up. I didn't realize it's lack of color until later. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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