I continue to experiment with the Aporia 24mm... But this time I fitted it to the Hasselblad 907x using a Leica M to Hasselblad X mount adapter. I figured that since it was designed to cover 24x36 format film, it might work okay on 33x44mm digital sensor if I cropped to square.
The camera looks slightly ludicrous with a lens that's smaller than and 1/3 the weight of the lens mount adapter… https://flic.kr/p/2mhQVWa … but if it works okay, who cares? :) Some test photos from my daily walks: https://flic.kr/p/2mi8vo6 :: Methodist Church Under Repair - Santa Clara 2021 https://flic.kr/p/2migbHw :: Art and Missiles - Santa Clara 2021 https://flic.kr/p/2micqgU :: Direction - Santa Clara 2021 https://flic.kr/p/2migbJ8 :: Shadow on Tiled Path - Santa Clara 2021 https://flic.kr/p/2mi8vpd :: Water Distribution - Santa Clara 2021 https://flic.kr/p/2mi8vpP :: Pickets - Santa Clara 2021 https://flic.kr/p/2midHaU :: Siding, Sun, and Shadows - Santa Clara 2021 https://flic.kr/p/2mi8vqL :: Light Beam on Surface Texture - Santa Clara 2021 The issues using this lens on the camera are several. - Electronic shutter only, with a scan time of 300milliseconds. So moving subjects are nearly impossible. - A 24mm lens, even with full viewfinder magnification for focus assist, proves hard to judge the best focus point. Normally I'd just set the lens by scale, but the focusing scale on the Aporia is way off the mark and needs to be fully re-calibrated to get the best out of it. - Luckily, a 24mm lens at f/5.6 has so much DoF on this format, you can focus pretty approximately and still get usable sharpness. I made a mark for 7 foot distance… that covers 3.5' to infinity. - The camera naturally wants to ride nose up on a strap as I walk, which invites dropping dirt and garbage onto the lens, so I carried it in a bag. It's fun stuff, however, and is sure amusing. You can see in the first two shots (which are directly out of the camera, resized only) there is a bit of color shifting across the capture field but it's fairly subtle. Enjoy! G — Godfrey DiGiorgi - [email protected] "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." --Mark Twain -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
