On 2/12/2016 10:57 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote:
Thought I'd mention that - rather surprisingly - my venerable (but
butchered) Pentax A*85/1.4 is now in regular use as part of my son's
video kit!
Being a (3rd year university) he doesn't have much spare money so I gave
him a load of bits and bobs to use for his projects and paid work. He is
currently editing a video that he shot of a new 4 million quid building
that opened at London South Bank University, and I saw a rough-cut last
night. The were a few really dreamy shots with narrow DOF and lovely
bokeh - I asked which lens and sure enough he has been using the Pentax
(and wide open) for anything like that. The sensor on the C100 camera is
Super-35, so not quite full frame.
When he's finished it, I'll try and get a link to view.
A 35 year old lens still doing great and mixing with a bunch of Canon L
glass. Who'd a thunk it.
Really? You're surprised? It's been said that you date cameras but
marry lenses.
The state of the art in optics has been advancing for a couple hundred
years, but when Modern Photography, (I think it was Modern IIRC), did an
issue near the end of it's run on winter photography, well into the K
mount era, when the M42 lens mount had been left well behind by all
surviving manufacturers, all the example images were shot with SMC
Takumars.
The newest design Takumars were 35 years old at the time.
Cameras especially today, are ephemeral, lenses are forever, especially
the good old ones. Their only real enemy is a manufacture obsoleting
their lens mount and the ignorance of a new generation...
Wait, their two real enemies is a manufacture obsoleting their lens
mount and the ignorance of a new generation, and fungus...
No, their three enemies is a manufacture obsoleting their lens mount,
the ignorance of a new generation, fungus, and being unrepairable due to
lack of parts...
No their four enemies...
--
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve
immortality through not dying.
-- Woody Allen
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