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wolan
Joined: 30 Jun 2015 Posts: 576 Location: Zurich
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Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2016 8:10 pm Post subject: Moscow in black and white with CZJ Biotar 58mm f2 |
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wolan wrote:
Hi,
this was my first holiday with my Fuji X-t10. I bought a cheap CZJ Biotar 58mm f2 in a second-hand shop in Moscow for 4500 rubles.
Pictures are shot using Fuji B&W and went through some light refinement in post with Lightroom.
Focusing was a bit of a problem at the beginning as focusing ring and aperture ring are very close and besides that they are in inverted order (well at least this is how am used to with the Nikkor lenses). Overally I like the lens and I find it a good choice for BW photography.
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newst
Joined: 21 Oct 2014 Posts: 617 Location: Troy, MI USA
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Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2016 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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newst wrote:
Very nice series.
How ironic that you are in Moscow using the CZJ Biotar and not its Soviet equivalent, the Helios 44. _________________ Steve
Just an armadillo on the shoulder of the information superhighway. |
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wolan
Joined: 30 Jun 2015 Posts: 576 Location: Zurich
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 8:58 am Post subject: |
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wolan wrote:
newst wrote: |
Very nice series.
How ironic that you are in Moscow using the CZJ Biotar and not its Soviet equivalent, the Helios 44. |
Thanks.
Indeed the plan was to buy there a few soviet lenses (see my previous post). I ended up instead buying the mentioned Biotar and the CZJ Sonnar 135mm f3.5.
However I found a Uran 27 for less then 50$, which I should get in the next weeks.
Cheers from snowy Zurich. |
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visualopsins
Joined: 05 Mar 2009 Posts: 10543 Location: California
Expire: 2025-04-11
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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visualopsins wrote:
These are really nice examples showing off lens capabilities (& photographer skills ) _________________ ☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮ like attracts like! ☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮
Cameras: Sony ILCE-7RM2, Spotmatics II, F, and ESII, Nikon P4
Lenses:
M42 Asahi Optical Co., Takumar 1:4 f=35mm, 1:2 f=58mm (Sonnar), 1:2.4 f=58mm (Heliar), 1:2.2 f=55mm (Gaussian), 1:2.8 f=105mm (Model I), 1:2.8/105 (Model II), 1:5.6/200, Tele-Takumar 1:5.6/200, 1:6.3/300, Macro-Takumar 1:4/50, Auto-Takumar 1:2.3 f=35, 1:1.8 f=55mm, 1:2.2 f=55mm, Super-TAKUMAR 1:3.5/28 (fat), 1:2/35 (Fat), 1:1.4/50 (8-element), Super-Multi-Coated Fisheye-TAKUMAR 1:4/17, Super-Multi-Coated TAKUMAR 1:4.5/20, 1:3.5/24, 1:3.5/28, 1:2/35, 1:3.5/35, 1:1.8/85, 1:1.9/85 1:2.8/105, 1:3.5/135, 1:2.5/135 (II), 1:4/150, 1:4/200, 1:4/300, 1:4.5/500, Super-Multi-Coated Macro-TAKUMAR 1:4/50, 1:4/100, Super-Multi-Coated Bellows-TAKUMAR 1:4/100, SMC TAKUMAR 1:1.4/50, 1:1.8/55
M42 Carl Zeiss Jena Flektogon 2.4/35
Contax Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* 28-70mm F3.5-4.5
Pentax K-mount SMC PENTAX ZOOM 1:3.5 35~105mm, SMC PENTAX ZOOM 1:4 45~125mm
Nikon Micro-NIKKOR-P-C Auto 1:3.5 f=55mm, NIKKOR-P Auto 105mm f/2.5 Pre-AI (Sonnar), Micro-NIKKOR 105mm 1:4 AI, NIKKOR AI-S 35-135mm f/3,5-4,5
Tamron SP 17mm f/3.5 (51B), Tamron SP 17mm f/3.5 (51BB), SP 500mm f/8 (55BB), SP 70-210mm f/3.5 (19AH)
Vivitar 100mm 1:2.8 MC 1:1 Macro Telephoto (Kiron)
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wolan
Joined: 30 Jun 2015 Posts: 576 Location: Zurich
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2016 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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wolan wrote:
Thanks.
The X-t10 is an excellent camera for black and white photography. You can set the viewfinder in BW and import the pictures so that the BW profile is automatically applied. So you can have a full BW workflow from before before it clicks to the final jpeg. Besides that it is very easy to use and change lenses with different mounts, provided you have the right adapter. Focal length reducers give you yet another degree of freedom as you can have 2 focal lengths with a single lens.
That said I am not going to abandon Nikon any soon. The X-t10 is slow, and when I say slow I mean not only the focusing system but also how you operate it. For example changing the focusing point requires you to push on the shutter release button in order to get out the focus point selection modus. Also, say I have pre-focused on a branch and I am waiting that a bird flies in the scene, when I finally click to freeze the bird in the position I like I discover with disappointment that the bird is not there where it was when I clicked.
Just sharing my impressions with you, it might well be that I am not doing it correctly as I am knew to the mirrorless system |
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visualopsins
Joined: 05 Mar 2009 Posts: 10543 Location: California
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2016 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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visualopsins wrote:
Interesting. Long time since I have heard about the shutter delay of mirrorless cameras. I suspected the delay with newer cameras was made more short. Now I wonder have people only gotten used to it.
I wonder small point. When bird shutter was clicked were you looking at viewfinder or at actual scene? I.e., is viewfinder showing delayed scene?
Somebody please tell us the shutter delay of NEX & Alpha is not a problem? _________________ ☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮ like attracts like! ☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮
Cameras: Sony ILCE-7RM2, Spotmatics II, F, and ESII, Nikon P4
Lenses:
M42 Asahi Optical Co., Takumar 1:4 f=35mm, 1:2 f=58mm (Sonnar), 1:2.4 f=58mm (Heliar), 1:2.2 f=55mm (Gaussian), 1:2.8 f=105mm (Model I), 1:2.8/105 (Model II), 1:5.6/200, Tele-Takumar 1:5.6/200, 1:6.3/300, Macro-Takumar 1:4/50, Auto-Takumar 1:2.3 f=35, 1:1.8 f=55mm, 1:2.2 f=55mm, Super-TAKUMAR 1:3.5/28 (fat), 1:2/35 (Fat), 1:1.4/50 (8-element), Super-Multi-Coated Fisheye-TAKUMAR 1:4/17, Super-Multi-Coated TAKUMAR 1:4.5/20, 1:3.5/24, 1:3.5/28, 1:2/35, 1:3.5/35, 1:1.8/85, 1:1.9/85 1:2.8/105, 1:3.5/135, 1:2.5/135 (II), 1:4/150, 1:4/200, 1:4/300, 1:4.5/500, Super-Multi-Coated Macro-TAKUMAR 1:4/50, 1:4/100, Super-Multi-Coated Bellows-TAKUMAR 1:4/100, SMC TAKUMAR 1:1.4/50, 1:1.8/55
M42 Carl Zeiss Jena Flektogon 2.4/35
Contax Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* 28-70mm F3.5-4.5
Pentax K-mount SMC PENTAX ZOOM 1:3.5 35~105mm, SMC PENTAX ZOOM 1:4 45~125mm
Nikon Micro-NIKKOR-P-C Auto 1:3.5 f=55mm, NIKKOR-P Auto 105mm f/2.5 Pre-AI (Sonnar), Micro-NIKKOR 105mm 1:4 AI, NIKKOR AI-S 35-135mm f/3,5-4,5
Tamron SP 17mm f/3.5 (51B), Tamron SP 17mm f/3.5 (51BB), SP 500mm f/8 (55BB), SP 70-210mm f/3.5 (19AH)
Vivitar 100mm 1:2.8 MC 1:1 Macro Telephoto (Kiron)
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