John Mustarde wrote:
> I got a 100/f4 Bellows Takumar recently, and thought
> I'd share one of my first photos taken with it.
>
> http://web2.airmail.net/linnm3/takbell-1.jpg
I like it!
> The bellows extension gave magnification a little more
> than 1:1. The photo is cropped, about 1/4 off the top
> and 1/6 off the bottom.
>
> First, I wandered out by the bird feeder and plucked
> the top off some unknown weed growing from dropped bird
> seed. Then, I placed the flower on my battery-powered
> slide viewer light box, so I could get the white
> background. Then I set the flower and light box on my
> copy stand, which has dual daylight flourescent lamps
> for overall lighting.
>
> Aperture was f32; spot metered; shutter speed on PZ1p
> set to Automatic. Film was Fuji Superia 400 negative
> film. Scanned at 2700dpi, resized in Photoshop with one
> shot of 60% Unsharp Mask applied, saved as jpg at 6
> setting.
Aperture f/32 seems somewhat... extreme. Diffraction severely limits your
ultimate sharpness at such a small stop. It's usually good to try to keep
the aperture up to f/11 or f/8, but sometimes the need for DOF won't allow
it. It's not always necessary (or even desirable) to have the entire subject
in sharp focus.
A slower film with more saturation might be in order .
These are just ramblings. Photo is good!
> The 100/4 Bellows Takumar seems like a pretty good
> lens.
It's one of the best!
Regards,
Bob...
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