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Laurence
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 Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 6:30 am Post subject: Flektogon 25/4 - Back Door Images of Spring |
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Laurence wrote:
I wandered around near the lake and dam of Sylvia Creek today, not far from the house. Spring is exploding with Trilliums and Oxalis. Together with the mosses and bryophytes, things are starting to look intensely green! What a change from the drab winter months.
The Flektogon is showing good edge sharpness in some of these, and I like the overall "feel" of the images from this lens.
I wanted to show these, not necessarily as objects of beauty, but to show the good rendition I am getting from the lens. It mates well with the Pentax K110D. The only post-processing was Unsharp Mask. Corners fall off slightly in sharpness, but overall I would rate the sharpness as "good", as opposed to excellent.
The Old Sylvia Dam
Flektogon 25/4
f:11
No Unsharp Mask
Sylvia Trail (jpeg artifacts)
Flektogon 25/4
f:8
No Unsharp Mask
Trillium Close Focus Crop
Flektogon 25/4
f:5.6
Unsharp Mask 35/1/0
Trillium Soldiers Crop
Flektogon 25/4
Wide Open
Unsharp Mask 35/1/0
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CV Apo-Lanthar 90/3.5SL, (Thank you Klaus),
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Pentax-A 150
Pentax-A 120 Macro
Voigtlander Vitomatic I w/Color Skopar 50/2.8
Konica TC and zoom lenses (thanks Carsten)
Contax AX
Yashica ML 50/2
Yashica ML 35/2.8
Carl Zeiss Contax 50/1.4
Tamron Adaptall SP 17/3.5
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| Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 7:01 am Post subject: |
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One thing that strikes me with your photography, Larry, is: most photographers generally try to avoid the overcast weather, or the areas that are completely shaded, like the underwood, because they are convinced that it will make their photos worse. You are able to turn this "rule" upside down, and with all your photos, no matter if taken with medium format film, or with digital, you are able to use this weather to your advantage, and produce pictures that have an incredible depth, and something that I am unable to describe differently than "a sense of freshness" that emanates from every inch of your images. I look at your photos and it always feels like my lungs can inhale the crispy air and my hands can touch the dew. It is not the medium, and it only happens with your images, so, it must be the photographer. Congratulations.
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Attila
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Attila wrote:
This is Gallery images Larry not a point and shoot neighbour's roof as sample  what we generally put into Manual Lenses section.I moved here about this reason. I love to see you works, thank you for these!
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poilu
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| Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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poilu wrote:
| Attila wrote: |
| Larry not a point and shoot neighbour's roof as sample |
Yes, beautiful landscape and superb composition every time even in difficult environment
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| Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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Schnauzer wrote:
Very nice images.
As soon as our snow is gone I'm anxoius to do some of the same.
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Laurence
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| Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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Laurence wrote:
| Orio wrote: |
| One thing that strikes me with your photography, Larry, is: most photographers generally try to avoid the overcast weather, or the areas that are completely shaded, like the underwood, because they are convinced that it will make their photos worse. You are able to turn this "rule" upside down, and with all your photos, no matter if taken with medium format film, or with digital, you are able to use this weather to your advantage, and produce pictures that have an incredible depth, and something that I am unable to describe differently than "a sense of freshness" that emanates from every inch of your images. I look at your photos and it always feels like my lungs can inhale the crispy air and my hands can touch the dew. It is not the medium, and it only happens with your images, so, it must be the photographer. Congratulations. |
Wow, that was a nice series of statements, Orio. Thank you!
Let me expand on what you are saying. I've run up against sort of the same thing with the members of the camera club; basically, that they feel that the "dark forest" won't offer much. However, it seems that a majority of the members love the brighter sunlit imagery.
Maybe it was because I sort of grew up in the dark rain forest, maybe I'm a proponent of the "darker" scenes. And frankly, even in sunlit scenes, I tend to like to underexpose a little as opposed to overexpose. So...these areas certainly allow for that.
Orio, you talked about the freshness. Let me tell you that this is probably the biggest single factor that keeps me here in this corner of Washington State. Driving down the roads through the morning mists and the sparkling bits of water everywhere, tends to enervate the lungs and causes me to take deep breathing draughts of the clean air. There is a certain joy in entering these cool, dark, moist woods, especially this time of year. The hands get cool, and I'll slip on my gloves for a while. The ground is moist, so I keep a pair of rainpants on, and when kneeling down even my knees seems to love the coolness.
The plants are just now breaking out of the soil, and in this stage they are so robust and GREEN and full of water and life. The enervating air SCREAMS of oxygen, and the drops of water dripping off the canopy shimmer in the air, so that one walks, literally, through a spectre of spinning, glowing air.
There is nothing, to me, like striding gently along the trail, watching the steam rising off of the little spots of sun. The moss turns into such a vivid green that I sometimes need to don my sunglasses to really see the detail. The Oxalis and the Bryophytes and the Saprophytes are exploding out of the ground in a herculean burst of cell division and growth. In the case of the Saprophytes, I've seen them burst forth in a matter of hours - what was bare ground just a little time ago, is now filling with a new organism!
And finally, there is the quietness. I know this is an oxymoron, but it's almost a cacophony of silence. Sure, there is the occasional double-note trill of the Varied Thrush, and the deliriously complicated song of the Winter Wren, and even the tiny murmur of the water that is running everywhere. But, the overall feeling is a sort of muted, green, wet silence.
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Cameras and Lenses in Use:
Yashica Mat 124 w/ Yashinon 80/3.5,
CV Apo-Lanthar 90/3.5SL, (Thank you Klaus),
Pentax 645,
Flek 50,
Pentax-A 150
Pentax-A 120 Macro
Voigtlander Vitomatic I w/Color Skopar 50/2.8
Konica TC and zoom lenses (thanks Carsten)
Contax AX
Yashica ML 50/2
Yashica ML 35/2.8
Carl Zeiss Contax 50/1.4
Tamron Adaptall SP 17/3.5
Tamron Adaptall 28/2.5
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Laurence
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| Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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Laurence wrote:
| Attila wrote: |
| This is Gallery images Larry not a point and shoot neighbour's roof as sample what we generally put into Manual Lenses section.I moved here about this reason. I love to see you works, thank you for these! |
Well, okay Attila! Thanks! 
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Cameras and Lenses in Use:
Yashica Mat 124 w/ Yashinon 80/3.5,
CV Apo-Lanthar 90/3.5SL, (Thank you Klaus),
Pentax 645,
Flek 50,
Pentax-A 150
Pentax-A 120 Macro
Voigtlander Vitomatic I w/Color Skopar 50/2.8
Konica TC and zoom lenses (thanks Carsten)
Contax AX
Yashica ML 50/2
Yashica ML 35/2.8
Carl Zeiss Contax 50/1.4
Tamron Adaptall SP 17/3.5
Tamron Adaptall 28/2.5
Tamron Adaptall SP 300/2.8 LD (IF)
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Laurence
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| Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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Laurence wrote:
| poilu wrote: |
| Attila wrote: |
| Larry not a point and shoot neighbour's roof as sample |
Yes, beautiful landscape and superb composition every time even in difficult environment |
Thanks poilu. Wow, I LOVE your avatar! NICE image!
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Demur,—you ’re straightway dangerous,
And handled with a chain.
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Cameras and Lenses in Use:
Yashica Mat 124 w/ Yashinon 80/3.5,
CV Apo-Lanthar 90/3.5SL, (Thank you Klaus),
Pentax 645,
Flek 50,
Pentax-A 150
Pentax-A 120 Macro
Voigtlander Vitomatic I w/Color Skopar 50/2.8
Konica TC and zoom lenses (thanks Carsten)
Contax AX
Yashica ML 50/2
Yashica ML 35/2.8
Carl Zeiss Contax 50/1.4
Tamron Adaptall SP 17/3.5
Tamron Adaptall 28/2.5
Tamron Adaptall SP 300/2.8 LD (IF)
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Laurence
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Laurence wrote:
| Schnauzer wrote: |
Very nice images.
As soon as our snow is gone I'm anxoius to do some of the same. |
Schnauzer, thanks. I imagine your Maine woods are simply wonderful places to be when the snow goes away. Will your Trilliums be blooming soon, or will they be later on?
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Demur,—you ’re straightway dangerous,
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Cameras and Lenses in Use:
Yashica Mat 124 w/ Yashinon 80/3.5,
CV Apo-Lanthar 90/3.5SL, (Thank you Klaus),
Pentax 645,
Flek 50,
Pentax-A 150
Pentax-A 120 Macro
Voigtlander Vitomatic I w/Color Skopar 50/2.8
Konica TC and zoom lenses (thanks Carsten)
Contax AX
Yashica ML 50/2
Yashica ML 35/2.8
Carl Zeiss Contax 50/1.4
Tamron Adaptall SP 17/3.5
Tamron Adaptall 28/2.5
Tamron Adaptall SP 300/2.8 LD (IF)
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Schnauzer
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Schnauzer wrote:
Nothing will be blooming for a few more weeks. Where the sun shines all day, like fields, it is getting bare, but the woods still have from 10" to 18" of snow.
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dakoo
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dakoo wrote:
| Laurence wrote: |
| Thanks poilu. Wow, I LOVE your avatar! NICE image! |
Glad someone brought that up.. ! Yeah poilu, can't stop looking at it.. post the bigger full image of it ...pls
Beautiful shots Larry.. !!
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| This is Gallery images Larry not a point and shoot neighbour's roof as sample Smile what we generally put into Manual Lenses section |
Attila. A suggestion, Maybe we can start a group activity, where everyone has to shoot some shots using one lense, example Jupiter9 (which most have) & submit it in thread & move them in the mflense gallery later..!! One lense every week. What do you guys think ? |
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Attila
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| Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 6:58 pm Post subject: |
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Attila wrote:
Good idea I support it.Older photos also okay taken with specific lenses.Go ahead!
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poilu
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| Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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poilu wrote:
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| Yeah poilu, can't stop looking at it.. post the bigger full image of it ...pls |
You forced me to show to everyone how bad photographer I am 
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Attila
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Attila wrote:
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| Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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maddog10 wrote:
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| You forced me to show to everyone how bad photographer I am |
I don't think so, not one bit!
EXCELLENT!
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dakoo
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dakoo wrote:
| poilu wrote: |
| dakoo wrote: |
| Yeah poilu, can't stop looking at it.. post the bigger full image of it ...pls |
You forced me to show to everyone how bad photographer I am
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The crop is perfect !! 
Well great shot really !!
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| Good idea I support it.Older photos also okay taken with specific lenses.Go ahead! |
Ok i will start a topic in the Gallery, should Jupiter9 85/2 be the first choice ?
Yeah but please shoot newer shots too.. so that every one keeps the lense in the kit for entire week.
And we could ask every one to comment on what characters of that particular lense they like, so that newbees to world of lenses like me can learn about different characters of a lense.. |
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Attila
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| Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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Attila wrote:
Okay do it
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| Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 3:41 am Post subject: |
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Katastrofo wrote:
Beautiful images, Larry! I love the lush green colors after a good rain.
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j.lukow
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j.lukow wrote:
Dakoo & Attila . . .
Neat idea, but can those of us still using film if we have shots from a spotlighted lens post them later?
Jim
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j.lukow
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| Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 1:29 am Post subject: |
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j.lukow wrote:
Larry . . .
Great shots as usual. You've managed to capture the vibrancy of the new life emmerging.
Makes me impatient for our Trilliums to put in their appearance, in the wild and in our garden. In Ontario, where our provincial flower is the Trillium - the white ones - we're allowed to transplant but not "pick" them. This means we have several white ones and a crimson one too.
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Jim's Kit:
Minolta Kit: Minolta X570 & Autowinder G, Minolta SRT200
LENSES:Minolta - 45mm & 50mm F1:2, PF 58mm F1:1.4, Tamron 28mm f1:2.5, Tamron SP 35-80mm f1:2.8/3.8 & CF TeleMacro zoom 80-210 f1:3.8, Vivitar f3.0~4.5 35-200mm macro focusing zoom, f 2.8 28mm CF Wide angle, 2x macro focus teleconverter,Sigma F4 25-250, f 2.8~4 35-70mm zoom master,Tokina SD f4-5.6 70-210 zoom, f4.5 80-200 "Ultra" Zoom,AutoImage 135mm F1:2.8, Spiratone 400mm f1:6.3, Magicon f3.5-4.8 35-70mm macro zoom,Quantary f8-500 Mirror/macro lens, Accura MD mount Macro bellows
M42 Kit:Praktica PLC2,Yashica TL Electro X
LENSES:Meyer Goerlitz Oreston 50mm f1:1.8 , Auto Yashinon DX 1:1.7 50mm,Steinheil Munchen Culminar 135mm f4.5, Adaptall-2 M42 adapter
Zeiss . . . Zeiss Contaflex 126 system, Zeiss Contaflex Super
Medium Format: Pentacon sixTL
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F16SUNSHINE
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F16SUNSHINE wrote:
I missed this post before. I love the "soldiers" gives the shot such charm All are fantastic as always. |
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