Interesting lens! Do you use it on 4/3rds as a 50ish mm equivalent? There is an interesting triptych to be made with the missile, the road arrow and the white fence.
> On 21 Aug 2021, at 01:20, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. -- %(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.
