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Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 12:25 am
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Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 12:25 am
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wow!

This guy has got an eye and soul..

What a great use of the legendary lens !

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27351229@N04/2964760750/in/set-72157608349044826/

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this is also from his gallery --

just superb !

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27351229@N04/5136100751/in/set-72157625262819967/


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Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 9:28 am
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Stunning images - one of the best I ever saw.


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Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 10:39 am
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I think half of Aleksandr's photostream is already in my favorites on Flickr, haha. Definitely love his work, and I agree, best I've seen for using 35/1.4.

K.


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Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 12:01 pm
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I don't know, some are definitely good indeed, but after a while the "wide open, near focus object, full blur behind and saturation cranked up" standard procedure becomes boring to me.
I don't think that these images represent the best that the old 1.4/35 Distagon can do.


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Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 1:01 pm
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If only all these shots were really taken with the Distagon 35/1.4

Quite a few of them were actually taken with the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 - dont know if the guy does it on purpose or if its a genuine mistake

Just click on "Canon EOS 5D" hyperlinked on the top right in the "This photo was taken on October 16, 2010 using a Canon EOS 5D" section - this is the EXIF data and you will see very clearly that the lens used was the EF 50/1.8


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Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 1:31 pm
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Nothing to tell home about.
Close focus extensively used
Bokeh abused,
Jeez, I'm a poet, have to go public

Shocked

Hari@ I guess he's using a chipped adapter with that info embedded.


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Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 1:38 pm
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Hari, well observed. Laughing

Or can it be that a chipped adapter communicates those parameters to the EXIF file?


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Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 1:46 pm
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LucisPictor wrote:

Or can it be that a chipped adapter communicates those parameters to the EXIF file?


I don't think so. Indeed the chip communicates aperture and focal lenght, but not the "Lens" field.
See this info:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27351229@N04/2953892845/meta/in/set-72157608349044826

Aperture and focal lenght are filled, and this could be done by the chip of an adapter, but look more below, the "Lens" field is filled with "EF50mm f/1.8", an adapter does not fill that Exif field.


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Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 1:57 pm
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LucisPictor wrote:
Hari, well observed. Laughing

Or can it be that a chipped adapter communicates those parameters to the EXIF file?


No, you can't program the Lens ID and full lens type info into a chip

Besides, in some pix the bokeh is clearly not atypical of the distagon 35/1.4


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Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 2:08 pm
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No, you can't program the Lens ID and full lens type info into a chip

first generation adapter were programmed as Canon 50 1.8


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Out of the first 25 photos in that set, 20 have been taken with a Canon EF 1.8/50 lens.
I then stopped checking because I have better things to do Wink


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Orio wrote:
[..., the "Lens" field is filled with "EF50mm f/1.8", an adapter does not fill that Exif field.


Yes, I have seen that. But can we be sure that no adapter fills that field?
Poilu says it might be possible.

Ah, never mind. That Flickr member either is a victim of adapters or a swindling bonehead.


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Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 3:34 pm
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One of my chipped adapters before I went to all adjustable reads 50 1.8 in info with DPP where I usually take my first look at my pictures to dump ones I don't like. I was just looking at some last week taken with the Jupiter-37A that said 50 1.8. In fact I think I have 2 of the adapters that always read for every lense 50-1.8 or 1.8-50 for those that get technical, because I don't remember which. I set all my adjustable one to identify the lense. If I have more than I lense that is , say 50-1.4 I will set one of them to read 50-1.6 and make a note to keep with the lense.


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LucisPictor wrote:
Orio wrote:
[..., the "Lens" field is filled with "EF50mm f/1.8", an adapter does not fill that Exif field.


Yes, I have seen that. But can we be sure that no adapter fills that field?
Poilu says it might be possible.

Ah, never mind. That Flickr member either is a victim of adapters or a swindling bonehead.

It is possible. The AF chip I ordered will have a similar EXIF data.


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LucisPictor wrote:

Yes, I have seen that. But can we be sure that no adapter fills that field?
Poilu says it might be possible.


If poilu says it's possible, then I'll take his word.
I personally never had such an adapter.


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Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:50 am
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There are two different things here:

1. programming EXIF info with an adapter
2. EXIF info containing the Manufacturer's default Lens information

Yes, you can program the chip to say 50mm 1.4 Aperture. I have some of these chips and i use it on my C/Y Planar 50/1.4 where it correctly shows the lens as 50mm and aperture as 1.4

On the other hand, I don't think you can program the chip to say
"Lens - EF50mm f/1.8 II"

I did exactly the same thing he did to see if anybody notices - I tagged my picture taken with the EF50 1.8 II version as the Planar 50 1.4. The "lowly plastic crap" EF50 1.8 II fared decently well given the crappy picture I took

Here's the EXIF for the programmed chip identifying my Planar correctly as 50/1.4 :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dementedjesus/5512144974/meta/

Here's the EXIF for the shot taken with the EF50mm f/1.8 II version:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dementedjesus/5478943606/meta/

Poilu/Calvin - Can actually program the chip to say "EF50mm f/1.8 II"? This is the question. I don't doubt that you can program a chip to say 50mm 1.4 - you can see this is possible from the EXIF on my first link above


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Poilu/Calvin - Can actually program the chip to say "EF50mm f/1.8 II"?

my first haoda adapter report EF50mm f/1.8
it is hard coded in the chip and not modifiable
with software, exif of a file can be modified to say anything you like


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Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:17 pm
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poilu wrote:
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Poilu/Calvin - Can actually program the chip to say "EF50mm f/1.8 II"?

my first haoda adapter report EF50mm f/1.8
it is hard coded in the chip and not modifiable
with software, exif of a file can be modified to say anything you like


Yes mine as well. The earliest zuiko OM to eos and CY to eos both show EF 50mm f1.8 .
I can't view well the images from my phone.
Would not distagon 1.4/35 images be apparent over plastic fantastic 50mm images.
If we need to resort to viewing exif data... Then the 2 lenses must both be complimented. Laughing


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F16SUNSHINE wrote:

Would not distagon 1.4/35 images be apparent over plastic fantastic 50mm images.


Difficult to say when 90% of the photos are focused to minimum distance with one object in focus and the rest blurred. That way all lenses would look alike, except maybe for the Helios-40.

I however had the feeling that some pictures, esp. the one that I linked to:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27351229@N04/2953892845/meta/in/set-72157608349044826

looked totally Canonlike in the bokeh.
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Orio wrote:
F16SUNSHINE wrote:

Would not distagon 1.4/35 images be apparent over plastic fantastic 50mm images.


Difficult to say when 90% of the photos are focused to minimum distance with one object in focus and the rest blurred. That way all lenses would look alike, except maybe for the Helios-40.

I however had the feeling that some pictures, esp. the one that I linked to:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27351229@N04/2953892845/meta/in/set-72157608349044826

looked totally Canonlike in the bokeh.
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+1 for "Difficult to say when 90% of the photos are focused to minimum distance with one object in focus and the rest blurred."

Yes, in some cases you still can tell by the signature of that lens but in most cases, it becomes difficult

+1 for "looked totally Canonlike in the bokeh." - look at the bokeh from my canon EF50 1.8 II shot here ->

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dementedjesus/5478943606/in/set-72157626016913403/lightbox/
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