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heartcat
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 Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 6:36 pm Post subject: Guitar photos with a Karl Gener 135mm 2.8 |
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heartcat wrote:
I know nothing about this lens, which I picked up locally, other than that it was made in Japan, which is nothing unusual. I have been unable to find any information about it.
I have enjoyed it however, and 135mm is my prefered focal length. I thought I'd share a few that I took with it recently. And maybe see if anyone knows anything about it, or happens to have one.
It is a close focusing lens, but a few of these, the ones of the guitar itself, were taken using tubes.
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martinsmith99
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martinsmith99 wrote:
It looks ok to me. I would say that judging by pic#2 that it could do with a lens hood, or if it has one a deeper one.
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mmelvis wrote:
Martins, why does the lens need a hood? How can you tell by looking at the picture? Learning by asking questions.
Heart can we see a picture of the lens? |
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kds315*
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kds315* wrote:
Easy: lesser contrast in #2 than #1 taken at different angle - stray light leads to that ---> need sunshade.
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Sevo
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| Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 7:59 am Post subject: Re: Guitar photos with a Karl Gener 135mm 2.8 |
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Sevo wrote:
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| I know nothing about this lens, which I picked up locally |
"Locally" being where? Googling for Karl Gener, lenses with that branding seem to occur most often in Canada and the Northern US, so it may have been the house brand of a store chain operating in that region.
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cardiff_gareth wrote:
Loving this set 
The first one is the pick of the bunch for me, love the off straight angle to give it that qwerky look 
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heartcat
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heartcat wrote:
Thanks, all.
Martin, no it doesn't have a lens hood unfortunately. Although in that particular photo, the second one, what you see is actually a 'haze' effect I was trying out, lol, in post processing. I don't do a lot of post processing and am not very adept at it. Both my son and the camera and myself were in the shade.
Mmelvis, I will take a photo of the lens and post later.
Sevo, I'm in southern Ontario, Canada. You know more than what I've been able to find out, if you've noticed it seems to be more common in this region and the northeastern U.S. I wonder what store it might have been made for.
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