S-M-C and Super Takumar 50mm f1.4

[Nesster]

oh wow, that last one, with the car, so excellent - it could be in a magazine.
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[bob955i]

A fascinating series from a fascinating country, Andreas.

More please....

[kuuan]

[Orio]

Thanks much for this series. I am very interested in seeing the street life of Japan (and of any other country for that matter).
It sort of makes up for the travels that I will not be able to make unfortunatley.
So please keep sending!
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[LucisPictor]

Thanks for sharing. Japan is such a fascinating country. I would love to go there one day!

BTW, my SuperTak 1.4/50 also shows 37801. What I always wanted to know: Does the yellowing have the same effect on b&w film a yellow filter has, i.e. increasing contrast? Does anybody know that?
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[Xpres]

Fascinating indeed - and the one with the car is fantastic. It has a great narative.

My fungus ridden, albeit mint, version of this lens also appears to be the radioactive type! I'd no idea. It seems there were quite a few with these rare earth elements

[poilu]

the last series are superb
like a storybook for a Hollywood production
those shots are very high level and also artistic
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[Farside]

Those three with the geisha and especially the last one, which was like a bit of photo-voyeurism, are excellent - more candids. The slightly iffy focus on the two colour geisha pics doesn't detract from them at all, in my opinion, since it makes them look like grab shots.
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[kuuan]

Wow, thank you so much everybody!

[padiej]

Hallo Andi!
To clean noise, I used the freeware Noiseware Community Edition, i am very happy with it.
You can plane the picture so good, and so, the size will be smaler by eleminate the grain.
Simple and good -
You infected me to use the open eye too, aperture 1,4 in the night by walkung around a city -


regards Peter
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[Farside]

I'm only guessing here, and I hope it hasn't changed, but Japan has always been a camera-mad society, so they are quite used to people snapping away all day long. Most especially, tourists shouldn't have any problems, unlike in parts of Europe and the US now.
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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of pseudo patriotic fervor - with the cries of grave national emergency. always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real. - General Douglas McArthur

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence, clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L.Mencken

The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
Herman Goering at the Nuremberg Trial

[kuuan]

[kuuan]

another with the SuperTak 50mm f1.4, made look 'old' in photoshop processing:


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[peterm1]

From my experience this SMC Takumar 50mm f1.4 lens has especially nice smooth bokeh when shot at wider apertures. I have had one for years - having originally shot it on my Spotmatic and then more recently I have resurrected it for use with an adapter on my Panasonic L1 where it turns in a nice picture (when I get the focus correct - unfortunately this is not as easy as it seems with this particular camera.)
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[kuuan]