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Marlay park, limitations.

  • 18-10-2010 10:23am
    #1
    DaireQuinlan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,703 ✭✭✭


    I was in Marlay park a few weeks back, and ran through most of a roll or portra 160nc. I was shooting with my Helios 44-2, hence the second bit of the thread title. It's an interesing lens, and I really like what it does with portraits and with the splendidly busy OOF areas. Most significantly though, on nikon bodies, because of the film->flange distance, with an uncorrected adapter you lose infinity focus. In fact you lose the ability to focus past about 3 meters or so. This is a pretty big limitation, but I find, along with how I know it's going to render the scene, that it focuses what I'm doing on particular subjects or compositions. Of course then I wonder if I'm overdoing it ...

    Here are a few, more on my stream. Apologies if people have seen these before, most have been up on the random picture thread over the last few weeks.

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    Nice and soft for portrait work as well ...


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    It also makes me prone to taking shots like this :


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  • #2
    *eadaoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 628 ✭✭✭*eadaoin


    I really like these Daire, the out of focus backgrounds are so beautiful, they're just my cup of tea, wonderful tones too.


  • #3
    Kintarō Hattori
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,015 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    *eadaoin wrote: »
    I really like these Daire, the out of focus backgrounds are so beautiful, they're just my cup of tea, wonderful tones too.

    With a cupcake?


  • #4
    *eadaoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 628 ✭✭✭*eadaoin


    Kintarō Hattori wrote: »
    With a cupcake?

    ideally yes! ;)


  • #5
    JayEnnis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 851 ✭✭✭JayEnnis


    Where did you get the adapter for the lenses? I take it they're m24 screw mount?


  • #6
    DaireQuinlan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,703 ✭✭✭DaireQuinlan


    *eadaoin wrote: »
    I really like these Daire, the out of focus backgrounds are so beautiful, they're just my cup of tea, wonderful tones too.

    Yeah you can't beat Portra NC for that. Gorgeous pastels.
    JayEnnis wrote: »
    Where did you get the adapter for the lenses? I take it they're m24 screw mount?

    I just got it on EBay somewhere, they're pretty cheap. The lens is M42, yes. You can get adapters with a lens that corrects for the infinity focus, but the cheap ones are pretty dreadful. I kinda like it the way it works at the moment. I keep on meaning to get some cheap M42 body to stick it onto.


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  • #7
    JayEnnis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 851 ✭✭✭JayEnnis


    DaireQuinlan wrote: »
    Yeah you can't beat Portra NC for that. Gorgeous pastels.



    I just got it on EBay somewhere, they're pretty cheap. The lens is M42, yes. You can get adapters with a lens that corrects for the infinity focus, but the cheap ones are pretty dreadful. I kinda like it the way it works at the moment. I keep on meaning to get some cheap M42 body to stick it onto.

    Ah yes m42, too much shooting games I think with me calling it the m24 :rolleyes:

    I'll have a look on ebay now, have you any links to the ones that correct the infinity focus problem? I have quite a lot of m42 lenses and would like to use them on my D80.


  • #8
    DaireQuinlan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,703 ✭✭✭DaireQuinlan


    JayEnnis wrote: »
    Ah yes m42, too much shooting games I think with me calling it the m24 :rolleyes:

    I'll have a look on ebay now, have you any links to the ones that correct the infinity focus problem? I have quite a lot of m42 lenses and would like to use them on my D80.

    Just do a search for "m42 nikon adapter lens" or something similar, you'll get a bunch of hits. I can't really speak for the quality of the ones that include a corrective lens, by repute they're not meant to be the best, but they're fairly cheap as well so you could just get both I guess and try them out.


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