Lookout View II
Another sunset from the Trafalgar Park lookout.
My earlier post of this sunset was taken in the other direction and shows how different it can look by swinging 180 degrees.
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Oh Deer
An early 1960s Takumar 300mm f4 to f32 lens came into my house today. I thought I would give it a try before it moved on. It works pretty well. Weighs a ton, has a very large amount of glass (filter size is 82mm), but is reasonably fast for the focal length and vintage. Chromatic aberration is pretty bad (I corrected it though not all the way in this version).
I tested the lens hand-held – the shot above was at 1/160th, f5.6 and ISO 640. I cropped it in Lightroom at about 1:3 ratio and applied a bit of sharpening, a bit of clarity, and minor adjustments to the tone curve. The shot below is un-cropped, taken at 1/320th, f8.0, ISO200. A bit of sharpening and minor adjustments of tone curve levels were made.
Pumphouse
The “red pumphouse” at my parents’ place.
From my first roll through an Olympus mju, or Olympus Stylus, which now has a second roll nearly finished.
Dog with Man
I bought a pinhole mounted in a body cap for EOS mount cameras.
To test it before trying it on a film camera I put it on a DSLR.
Which seems like a bizarre conjunction of image making technologies.
Predictably, I tested it at the storm drain in Ross Bay.
A dog and its man came to check out the top of the drain.
If you are ever curious about how much dust there really is on your sensor, this is how to find out.
I did a lot of dust spotting, but much remains.
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Mayne Shore VII
Eagles, ravens, river otters and raccoons bring food ashore in this part of the world.
Other animals do too, but they are the most likely for this location and what must have been quite a large salmon head.
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