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pdccameras
Joined: 23 Aug 2009 Posts: 826 Location: Putnam, CT
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 1:48 am Post subject: Beautiful Moon and Takumar 500mm f/4.5 |
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pdccameras wrote:
Hi all,
Great moon out tonight, and a pretty clear sky, so....
out comes the 500mm f/4.5 Takumar. She is worn, but not worn out. It used to belong to a wildlife photographer in Alaska. I bought it from him very reasonably several years ago along with a really nice old wooden tripod.
Anyway, I mounted the lens on the NEX-3, or should I say I mounted the NEX on the lens, put the whole thing on a sturdy Bogen 3046 and went to town.
The image is not bad for vintage glass. Sharpness isn't tops, and there was some blue CA, but I feel the image is definitely passable. A 100% crop is shown below.
Look at how even the massive Asahi lens cover for the 500 dwarfs the NEX!
I shoot some daylight photos with this lens in color soon.
Best, Paul
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Tervueren
Joined: 18 May 2011 Posts: 1177 Location: West Sussex, United Kingdom
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 1:51 am Post subject: |
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Tervueren wrote:
Very nice, I find the partial moon shots much more pleasing.
I wouldn't like to carry that monster very far |
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pdccameras
Joined: 23 Aug 2009 Posts: 826 Location: Putnam, CT
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 1:58 am Post subject: |
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pdccameras wrote:
Tervueren wrote: |
Very nice, I find the partial moon shots much more pleasing.
I wouldn't like to carry that monster very far |
Thanks!
I wouldn't want to carry very far either. I shot this moon pic in my back yard.
When I got the thing, it came with this huge wooden tripod with metal head and handmade lens bracket made of 1/4" aluminum bar stock. The bracket alone must have weighed about 5 pounds, plus the tripod, not to mention, the wildlife photographer who used it in Alaska had it mounted on a 16mm Bolex!
What a great way to stay in shape.
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Tervueren
Joined: 18 May 2011 Posts: 1177 Location: West Sussex, United Kingdom
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 2:00 am Post subject: |
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Tervueren wrote:
LOL must breed em tough in Alaska |
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Willem
Joined: 08 Jun 2011 Posts: 280 Location: Netherlands
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 5:25 am Post subject: |
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Willem wrote:
i love it! Both the lens and the moon-photo. _________________
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Canon EOS 500D, Canon Powershot SX10IS, 2 x Asahi Pentax spotmatic F, iPod touch
AF lenses:
Canon 18-55 kit lens, Canon 1.8/50mm, Canon EF 85 1.8 USM, Canon EF-S 10-22
MF lenses:
SMC Takumar 1.8/55 (2x)
S-M-C Takumars 3.5/24, 3.5/28, 3.5/35, 4/50 Macro, 4/100 Macro, 2.5/135 (v2), 4/200
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ChromaticAberration
Joined: 23 Dec 2010 Posts: 819 Location: Portugal
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 9:32 am Post subject: |
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ChromaticAberration wrote:
Gotta say I like moon shots to be very sharp, I like the detail in it. _________________ Body: Fujifilm X-E1
Landscapes: Samyang 12mm f/2 NCS CS
Macro: Vivitar Series 1 105mm ƒ/2.5
Portrait: Helios-44 58mm ƒ/2.0
Low-light: SMC Takumar 50mm ƒ/1.4
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s58y
Joined: 05 Sep 2010 Posts: 131 Location: Eastern NY
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 1:14 pm Post subject: |
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s58y wrote:
Good results -- pretty sharp for a 100% crop _________________
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pdccameras
Joined: 23 Aug 2009 Posts: 826 Location: Putnam, CT
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 4:33 pm Post subject: |
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pdccameras wrote:
Thanks!
I looked back through the exposures, and it is quite sharp. Better than my first impression. I did desaturate in PS along with some level adjustment and since I have all sharpening turned off in-camera, I used my standard "for print" unsharp mask sharpening recipe of 102% with radius set at 1.0 Pixel and a threshold of 3 levels. I had to work from the NEX-3 native Fine JPG since I don't as yet have a new enough version of Camera Raw to read the Sony raw format.
I would like to compare it to results obtainable with a newer lens, possibly the EF 400mm f/5.6 Canon L and the 400mm with a 1.4X attached.
Best,
paul _________________ Canon 5D Mii, Canon 40D, Canon 350D IR, Sony A7 Mii, Sony Alpha-6000, a ton of lenses: AF & MF and too many cameras to count, all formats: 110 - 4x5. |
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