Mom's Garden flowers with Rokkor 50mm F1.4 - 70-210mm F4.0

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Sometimes we search for parks or some shows to take picture of flowers, plants, bugs, without observing our gardens and our flowers.

I love flowers but don't take a lot of pictures of them usually.

Last Saturday i was at my Mom's Home with all my stuffs, like always it is with me, and i take some shots.

The lens used are:

Minolta Rokkor PG MC 50mm F1.4, used at F2.8 only

Minolta MD Macro 70-210mm F4 ratio 1:3.9 from len's specification, used at F5.6 - F8.0 and F9.5

I had sun but some wind, you will see i used fast speed sometimes.

All shots were handheld because the Minolta are manual lens, and i can't consider them real macro, but just shots.

For the next time i will try to use more the rokkor 50mm F1.4 with extension tubes, because i suspect his IQ is over the 70-210mm.

Some lightroom adjustments and here we go.

You will find all the EXIF info on each shot, i took notes of the len, focal lenght and aperture used and added then to exif with exiftool.

Please C/C are welcomed but remind this is my first real shooting session with my a6000 on flowers, tried to have a background linear, but for some flower it was impossible.

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#1 Minolta Rokkor MC PG 50mm F1.4 at F2.8 1/500 ISO 500


#2 Minolta Rokkor MC PG 50mm F1.4 at F2.8 1/800 ISO 500


#3 Minolta Rokkor MC PG 50mm F1.4 at F2.8 1/500 ISO 400


#5 Minolta MD Macro (1:3.9) 70-210mm F4 at 210mm F5.6 1/1250 ISO 320


#6 Minolta MD Macro (1:3.9) 70-210mm F4 at 210mm F8.0 1/1250 ISO 1000


#7 Minolta MD Macro (1:3.9) 70-210mm F4 at 210mm F8.0 1/1250 ISO 1250


#8 Minolta MD Macro (1:3.9) 70-210mm F4 at 210mm F8.0 1/1250 ISO 1000


#9 Minolta MD Macro (1:3.9) 70-210mm F4 at 210mm F8.0 1/1250 ISO 400


#10 Minolta MD Macro (1:3.9) 70-210mm F4 at 210mm F8.0 1/1250 ISO 800


#11 Minolta MD Macro (1:3.9) 70-210mm F4 at 210mm F8.0 1/1250 ISO 1000


#12 Minolta MD Macro (1:3.9) 70-210mm F4 at 210mm F8.0 1/1250 ISO 1000


#13 Minolta MD Macro (1:3.9) 70-210mm F4 at 210mm F8.0 1/1250 ISO 1600


#14 Minolta MD Macro (1:3.9) 70-210mm F4 at 180mm F8.0 1/800 ISO 400


#16 Minolta MD Macro (1:3.9) 70-210mm F4 at 100mm F8.0 1/800 ISO 250


#18 Minolta MD Macro (1:3.9) 70-210mm F4 at 100mm F8.0 1/800 ISO 250


#19 Minolta MD Macro (1:3.9) 70-210mm F4 at 210mm F8.0 1/800 ISO 250


#20 Minolta MD Macro (1:3.9) 70-210mm F4 at 210mm F8.0 1/800 ISO 500


#21 Minolta MD Macro (1:3.9) 70-210mm F4 at 210mm F8.0 1/800 ISO 160

[kds315*]

nice series, but if I may: select the really good ones (thzere are!) and drop the missed focus ones!

There are way too many images and to many similar ones. Less is more!!

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Thanks kds315, i removed 3 photos, the first are with the Minolta Rokkor 50mm F1.4 while the rest using the Minolta MD Macro 70-210mm F4.0 so is possible to see the difference using two different focal lenght

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[notko]

Some nice flowers in your mom's garden

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Thanks notko and you have to see my mother-in-law garden, tomorrow if i have time i will post them here because i used the same lens.

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After the Mom's Garden i went to my Mother-in-law Garden the last Sunday

I used only the Minolta MD Macro (1:3.9) 70-210mm F4 and these are some shots i took

Always handheld and F*.0 and one at F9.5

Comments and critiques are welcomed

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#1 Minolta MD Macro (1:3.9) 70-210mm F4 at 210mm F8.0 1/800 ISO 1600


#2 Minolta MD Macro (1:3.9) 70-210mm F4 at 210mm F8.0 1/500 ISO 2500


#3 Minolta MD Macro (1:3.9) 70-210mm F4 at 210mm F8.0 1/500 ISO 3200


#4 Minolta MD Macro (1:3.9) 70-210mm F4 at 210mm F8.0 1/500 ISO 2500


#5 Minolta MD Macro (1:3.9) 70-210mm F4 at 210mm F8.0 1/500 ISO 3200


#6 Minolta MD Macro (1:3.9) 70-210mm F4 at 210mm F8.0 1/500 ISO 2000 - I love the colors of this flower


#7 Minolta MD Macro (1:3.9) 70-210mm F4 at 210mm F8.0 1/640 ISO 160


#8 Minolta MD Macro (1:3.9) 70-210mm F4 at 210mm F8.0 1/640 ISO 800


#9 Minolta MD Macro (1:3.9) 70-210mm F4 at 210mm F8.0 1/400 ISO 3200


#10 Minolta MD Macro (1:3.9) 70-210mm F4 at 210mm F8.0 1/640 ISO 1000


#11 Minolta MD Macro (1:3.9) 70-210mm F4 at 210mm F8.0 1/400 ISO 1250


#12 Minolta MD Macro (1:3.9) 70-210mm F4 at 210mm F8.0 1/400 ISO 640


#13 Minolta MD Macro (1:3.9) 70-210mm F4 at 210mm F8.0 1/640 ISO 320


#14 Minolta MD Macro (1:3.9) 70-210mm F4 at 210mm F8.0 1/500 ISO 1000 - This guy is Rocco the guardian of the garden, also if often he sleep


#15 Minolta MD Macro (1:3.9) 70-210mm F4 at 210mm F9.5 1/640 ISO 3200 - Light changed no more sun


#16 Minolta MD Macro (1:3.9) 70-210mm F4 at 210mm F8.0 1/50 ISO 1600

[kryss]

Less is more......

[mavtop]

I know kriss, infact i want to use some extension tubes, to get more inside and take more details.

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[kryss]

And eventually look for a 100mm or 105mm Macro lens.

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Yep i know that, i was looking for a Tamron SP 90 F2.5 and a Tokina AT-X 90mm but the auctions went too high for my pocket.

So for now, i will try my "macro" lens (i have severals to try, i have also a Vivitar Serie 1 70-210mm F3.5 Kiron version and a Close Focusing len don't remember now which model)

I have extension tubes for Minolta MD, Canon FD and E-mount (Sony) lenses, so for now i will try these type of lenses, but before i need to check all my lenses and divided them by category (i have about 70 lenses)

Obviously a dedicated macro len will do the job easily but I don't want to spend a fortune for a macro len, repeat for now i'm interested in flowers but don't need 1:1 magnification and i prefer a tele focal len against a wide focal len, also 1:2 magnification or little less would be enough, for me already 1:3.9 that i got is enough, but if i could get less distance from the subjcet i could isolate the subject better from the background.

Anyway the next time i will try to use also a tripod/monopod to use slower speeds and a remote shutter after focusing manually.

But i suspect that i will need to check all my lenses before.

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[kryss]

Tamron 35-80mm macro is a great lens for the price also look for Vivitar Komine 135 mm Close focus.

[mavtop]

Yep, i suppose i have the Vivitar Komine 135mm F2.8 Close Focus, that is that i meant when i wrote (i didn't remember the model in the previous reply).

Repeat i bought a lot of lenses in the last year because i had them for few euros, a lot of them in bunch, some with camera too, and for now i only tried 3-4 of them, more i added other lens to the collection.

But now i'm trying to use them and i need to choose which one keep and which sell.

I hope to have some time in the next days.

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P.S. sorry if my english is not so good

[kryss]

Your English is fine..

[WNG555]

Nice job with the two Minoltas. I know how frustratingly hard it could be to hand-held shoot a macro. You'll hit the mark more with your tripod.
I just picked up a cheap copy of the Minolta MC Rokkor PG 50 f/1.4, and it's a capable fast lens. Definitely will need extension tubes to get closer with it. A few 28mm f/2.8 will also do Close-Focus duty and do very well with flowers. The Vivitar/Komine 28mm f/2.8 C.F. and Sigma Mini-Wide 28mm come to mind.

There were some very colorful examples from both gardens. Nice variety of subjects.

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Thanks WNG555, i never tried to shoot macro before (also if 1:3.9 is not real macro) but i didn't imagine che F8 in those cases has only some millimeters of DOF, and just some wind breeze or a little movement of the hand or the camera misses the focus completely.

I will try the Rokkor 50mm F1.4 with extension tubes (i suppose in the weekend when i usually have more time) but i will have to use also the Pentax-M SMC 50mm F1.7 that has a shorter MFD and is really sharp wide open so i can't imagine stopped down, but i don't have extension tube (but i could use the e-mount extension tube, losing automation that is not a problem).

I have to try also the Sigma Mini-Wide 28mm (i have it too but didn't know it was also macro), i suspect i have too many lenses to try but i need to do it

I visit these gardens usually in the weekends and flowers change often, my Mom and my Mother-in-law love to change flowers, so they mix flowers, take new flowers, sometime when i go outside of Italy i bring back them seeds of flowers that i don't know or never seen where i live.

A lot of flowers still need to open, so maybe, for when i will find the extension tubes between all the lens i have, maybe they are ready to take some shots.

I would like to take some inside macro shots but maybe i will need to stack photos with different focus point, so the final images will have all the flower in focus, but that will be another story, i don't know if will be possible to take more shots from same distance with several focus point, usually some little wind is present.

Thanks again for your comments and hints
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[!Karen]

Lovely flower photo's!

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Thanks !Karen

Hope to have more in the weekend

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