I thought these tulips looked nice sitting on the dining room table next to the large glass doors to the garden. I was playing around with one of my older, Olympus Pen FT lenses and thought I'd see how it worked on the Panasonic GH5ii. The lens was set at f2.0 and I used the camera's aperture priority setting. The file might have been more flexible if I'd shot in raw but in this instance Jpeg was the recipe of the day.
I like to have flowers around the house. There's always something to photograph...
The lens was the Pen FT 40mm f1.4 for the original half frame cameras. I think it's a very nice lens. Especially for portraits.
A variation:
Since we've recently talked politics on this blog, I would venture to say the top shot is more Republican, while the lower one is more Democratic.
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JC
ReplyDeleteOh, good imagination. Let's assume you're correct. How would a green party picture be organized?
jay
Both wrong. Socialist tulips...
ReplyDeleteAfter bad mouthing my 20mm Pen F in a previous post, I dug it out and tried again and found it to be excellent in the center, actually somewhat better than the 25mm f4 PenF. I agree with your impression of the 40mf1.4. A very nice small lens, that’s really nice on an m4/3 body. Might be good on a Leica APS body, but less so on an old Fuji X-E2.
ReplyDeleteAlways enjoy your posts and photos. And especially appreciate the occasional dip into the legacy drawer.
Ed, I sure wish I could find an "easy to buy" Pen FT to L mount adapter. Every once in a while someone directs me to a seller on EBay but when I dive into the offer it always seems too shady....
ReplyDeleteBut, Yes!!! the 40 would be great mounted on the front of a Leica CL. I'm still hoping to find a good, reliable source.
Regarding an adapter for PenF to L…being an inveterate tinkerer…and seeing flange distance of the Leica M is about a mm shorter than that for PenF….I might take the face off an inexpensive LM to L adapter, then glue on the face off any cheap Penf adapter, like PenF to m43. You would presumably focus past infinity and lose a very little on close focus, but with minimal fooling with machining, etc. Not a tinkerer…I bet some contacts at the swimming hole or Precision could fix up such a mongrel.
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ReplyDeleteIf you wanted to symbolize socialist flowers, you should have used red roses.
Jay
Jay, once again you are on the wrong side of facts. The red tulips are for communist tulips not socialist ones. Socialist tulips can be any color.
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ReplyDeleteWell, it's not a answer to the statement but whatever. It is your blog. so, what do yellow tulips mean? Do yellow tulips exist?
I think they are Thai funeral tulips. But I could be wrong...
ReplyDeleteIn the USA they are just....jaundiced tulips.