The head stone shot is great. Dave
Quoting Mark Cassino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm a big fan of Holgas and other toy cameras. The other day I pulled a > lens off a Holga, drilled a hole in a Pentax K body cap, and glued the > lens into place. As a result, my K mount bodies are now focus-free and > have that nice Holga-ish look that comes from using a single element > plastic lens. > > A couple of samples: > > http://www.markcassino.com/galleries/stream/2007/070113/IMGP0006.htm > > http://www.markcassino.com/galleries/stream/2007/070113/IMGP0015.htm > > And a shot of the modified camera: > > http://markcassino.com/b2evolution/media/IMGP2613.jpg > > Yeah - I should of been more careful to get the writing on the lens to > line up right. > > It's not as fun as a real Holga - the APS sensor really is sitting on > the relatively sharp 'sweet spot' of the lens. The 60mm lens is a short > telephoto on the *ist-D or K10D, vs being a wide angle on the medium > format body. I also had to add the vignetting in photoshop. But now I > can indulge my Holga impulses whenever... > > Oddly enough - the *ist-D and K10D seem to meter fine with the Holga > lens (I should mention that the aperture is part of the lens assembly.) > But my Mz-S for some reason can't handle it - it reports an exposure > that about 15 stops off. Same with the LX - but the real time metering > on the LX works correctly (the film camera report an expose that is way > too long.) > > - MCC > > -- > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Mark Cassino Photography > Kalamazoo, Michigan > www.markcassino.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > Equine Photography in York Region -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
