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pdccameras
Joined: 23 Aug 2009 Posts: 825 Location: Putnam, CT
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Posted: Mon May 15, 2017 2:08 am Post subject: Aires Coral 4.5cm f1.5 on NEX A7mii |
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pdccameras wrote:
I was inspired by the beautiful work Kymarto demonstrated in his recent post on the Aires Coral 4.5 cm f/1.5. I decided to give my copy a go.
Here are some flower pics with the lens mounted on a Sony A7Mii via an adapter sourced from Ebay seller ramir. As reported earlier, the lens is glowy wide open, and it flares easily, but it has interesting bokeh and nice color rendition - kind of cool. I find it a perfect match for flowers - and I find it works well on the A7. My original Aires 35-V set with 3 lenses, hoods, caps, instructions, and fitted case is shown.
Highly recommended when a pictorial kind of image is desired.
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_________________ 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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luisalegria
Joined: 07 Mar 2008 Posts: 6602 Location: San Francisco, USA
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Posted: Mon May 15, 2017 4:12 am Post subject: |
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luisalegria wrote:
Cool!
And weird.
I just found mine, on my Aires 35V with non working rangefinder. _________________ I like Pentax DSLR's, Exaktas, M42 bodies of all kinds, strange and cheap Japanese lenses, and am dabbling in medium format/Speed Graphic work. |
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blotafton
Joined: 08 Aug 2013 Posts: 1617 Location: Sweden
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Posted: Mon May 15, 2017 9:22 am Post subject: |
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blotafton wrote:
Nice to see some samples without heavy editing! |
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pdccameras
Joined: 23 Aug 2009 Posts: 825 Location: Putnam, CT
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Posted: Mon May 15, 2017 12:48 pm Post subject: |
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pdccameras wrote:
luisalegria wrote: |
Cool!
And weird.
I just found mine, on my Aires 35V with non working rangefinder. |
Thanks, Luis.
It is indeed weird. The bokeh goes from nervous (i.e., the grass in the pic of the small white flowers to rather smooth like in the pic of the purple pansy. It's difficult to control and pre-visualize.
The adapter I am using allows some minimal close-focus, so the already thin depth-of-field is made that much thinner. The lack of contrast wide open also makes focus peaking on the Sony difficult to use as well. As usual for these kind of shots, a strong off-axis light on a colorful background with a close focus of the main subject seems to be the main components of the recipe.
The kit is really nice - a very quirky camera to use. The lenses are all stand-alone - there are no lens elements in the camera body, but the tele has a separate focus scale and action. The front-mounted selector knob that looks like a slow shutter speed dial is actually the film rewind switch/! Everything works on my copy, except the meter - which is a little wonky - as 60+ years old selenium meters usually are.
Cheers!
Paul
P. _________________ 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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pdccameras
Joined: 23 Aug 2009 Posts: 825 Location: Putnam, CT
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Posted: Mon May 15, 2017 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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pdccameras wrote:
blotafton wrote: |
Nice to see some samples without heavy editing! |
Thank you. I did only minor post processing in ACR and Photoshop:
1) warmed up the color temp (ACR)
2) small boost to clarity and contrast (ACR)
3) about 2 px of selective high pass sharpening with sharpening layer blended at about 40% in Overlay (PS)
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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