Forgot to mention - all shots straight off the card, no additional processing except for re-sizing and conversion to jpeg for posting. Douglas Douglas Sharp wrote: >Hi Art, and everyone else. >first test series with the cannibalised Exakta/Topcon/M42/Canon 20D >Hybrid close-up lens. >If the out of focus background (and foreground) is what people mean by >bokeh, then this combo is, IMO, >bloody fantastic!!!! >I personally find the effect stupendous, absolutely perfect for flower >shots!! >Looks as if it performs best at f8, but I think the other apertures are >quite usable. >Start here, and click along the next shots: >http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/MG_2872_f1_8 >There may be some wind movement causing slight oof effects, it's cool, >breezy and overcast today. > >I find this crop absolutely gob-smacking >http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/MG_2874_f8_crop > >The construction is : Auto Topcor 1,8/58mm, connected to an Exakta >mount, connected to the barrel of an M42 Auto Teleplus >converter with the optics removed, then attached to the 20D with an >M42/EOS adapter. >I tried leaving the optics in and adjusting the whole thing to infinity >focus - after 2 shots I decided to forget it, I might just as well have >used the bottom of a beer bottle as a lens. >cheers >Douglas >NATSTEK@xxxxxxx wrote: > > > >>OUTSTANDING!! >>Art >> >> >>------ >>Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: >> http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm >>Archives are at: >> www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/ >> >> >> >> >> >> >------ >Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: > http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm >Archives are at: > www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/ > > > ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm Archives are at: www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/