Re: Old Tamron 28/2.8

2009-09-10 Thread Bruce Walker
P. J. Alling wrote: Only if I squint my eyes and drink heavily. Which moderate to heavy reading of this list could lead to. eckinator wrote: Actually doesn't it sound a lot like Larry Colen's gravel vignetting technique? Cheers Ecke 2009/9/10 P. J. Alling : I don't care about the lens,

Re: Old Tamron 28/2.8

2009-09-10 Thread P. J. Alling
Only if I squint my eyes and drink heavily. eckinator wrote: Actually doesn't it sound a lot like Larry Colen's gravel vignetting technique? Cheers Ecke 2009/9/10 P. J. Alling : I don't care about the lens, but from the translation; "In the light enough rice is almost complete correction o

Re: Old Tamron 28/2.8

2009-09-10 Thread eckinator
Actually doesn't it sound a lot like Larry Colen's gravel vignetting technique? Cheers Ecke 2009/9/10 P. J. Alling : > I don't care about the lens, but from the translation; > > "In the light enough rice is almost complete correction of the image of the > periphery. " > > Mark! > > (I guess it qua

Re: Old Tamron 28/2.8

2009-09-09 Thread P. J. Alling
I don't care about the lens, but from the translation; "In the light enough rice is almost complete correction of the image of the periphery. " Mark! (I guess it qualifies). Thibouille wrote: That one ? http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://www.tamron.co.jp/data/old-le

Re: Old Tamron 28/2.8

2009-09-09 Thread Larry Colen
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 02:02:04PM +0200, Thibouille wrote: > That one ? > http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://www.tamron.co.jp/data/old-lens/cw28.htm That looks very close, except mine has clear plastic over the focusing range marks, ubt it does have the weird rough plastic

Re: Old Tamron 28/2.8

2009-09-09 Thread Thibouille
Yeah noticed that ;) The http://www.adaptall-2.com/ website is very useful but the Adaptall '1' lenses infos are straight babelfished from Tamron japanese site so huh.. well :p On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:11 PM, eckinator wrote: > "In the light enough rice is almost complete correction of the image

Re: Old Tamron 28/2.8

2009-09-09 Thread eckinator
"In the light enough rice is almost complete correction of the image of the periphery." So that is how they make their lenses - rice coated elements... Cheers Ecke 2009/9/9 Thibouille : > That one ? > http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://www.tamron.co.jp/data/old-lens/cw28.ht

Re: Old Tamron 28/2.8

2009-09-09 Thread Thibouille
That one ? http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://www.tamron.co.jp/data/old-lens/cw28.htm On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Larry Colen wrote: > I'm going through gear, photographing stuff that's going up for sale. > In the Minolta drawer, I found an auto tamron 28mm f/2.8 > > Th

Old Tamron 28/2.8

2009-09-09 Thread Larry Colen
I'm going through gear, photographing stuff that's going up for sale. In the Minolta drawer, I found an auto tamron 28mm f/2.8 The mount doesn't say adaptall, but my adaptall II mount fits on it, and it's mount lets me put my Tamron 90 macro on my Minolta. I don't have any actual need for it, bu