{"id":1031,"date":"2008-02-10T08:18:08","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T08:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2008-02-10T08:18:08","modified_gmt":"2008-02-10T08:18:08","slug":"zenit-industar-61-lz-m42-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1031","title":{"rendered":"Zenit Industar 61 L\/Z M42 joy!"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nMy latest lens acquisition – the Zenit Industar 61 L\/Z 50mm F2.8 Macro for M42 screw mount<\/b>! It is one of the most highly regarded Ukranian Leica copies, and the L in its name means that it contains Lanthanum.<\/p>\n


\nIts M42 mount means I can use it on my Sony Alpha 700 and Minolta Dynax 7, using the M42 to Minolta AF-adapter.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, it is not truly macro; it does not achieve life-size magnification. Instead it has a 1:3 magnification, which is still amazing for a short-focal-length prime lens.<\/p>\n


\nA most interesting function of this lens is that its six aperture blades are shaped such that the aperture changes shape as you stop it down – from a full circle, to a jagged star, to a star (at F5.6-8), to a hexagon (F11) and then to a circle. This is the one main reason I bought it off a second-hand shop. Plus it was amazingly sharp!<\/p>\n


\n…not that I’d use the lens to make many sharp in-focus pictures. I’d rather use the impressionistic qualities of the bokeh. Surprisingly free of chromatic aberration, and gives liquid colors. Not overly contrasty out-of-focus areas, but still contrasty and colorful. This goes well with the Leica\/Minolta look… which I happen to like, considering my love for Minolta lenses.<\/p>\n


\nHere, the double-line bokeh can be used to draw shapes out of out-of-focus areas.<\/p>\n


\nOr, make starry highlights!<\/p>\n


\nI think KJ<\/a> might’ve took this.<\/p>\n


\n…or this. I’m not sure.<\/p>\n

There are two variables in making star bokeh – focusing distance and aperture. Turn the focusing ring to change the size of out-of-focus elements, and turn the aperture to change the size and shape of out-of-focus elements.<\/p>\n


\nA third variable, much more challenging, is to put a subject in the frame, with it being in focus!<\/p>\n


\nAh Wai and the Industar bokeh.<\/p>\n


\nKJ and the Industar bokeh.<\/p>\n


\n1\/5th of a second, ISO1600, F2.8. I love how, despite the cat being slightly out-of-focus, it seems to float in the shadow.<\/p>\n


\nAmpang-mari cat. 1\/40s ISO6400.<\/p>\n


\n1\/20s ISO6400. Punch up the sharpening for some gritty grain.<\/p>\n


\nMore night scene testing. 1\/10s ISO1600. Whoa shit is that Lydia? It was a random chick-stalking to show a friend I bumped into, the lens. Taken the night I got the lens – 5th January 2008. Go figure out if you were there that night!<\/p>\n


\nOkay I might’ve not been very honest with the size of the lens in the first few pictures. Here it is next to a lens that shares a striking resemblance – the Sony Carl Zeiss 135mm F1.8<\/b> (which I lust for.) Note the similiar grooved focus ring.<\/p>\n


\nDoubled my Russians.<\/b> The Industar next to my Peleng 8mm F3.5 circular fisheye<\/a>, also a M42 lens.<\/p>\n


\nAnd surprise, next to my Minolta 50mm F1.4 lens! It’s just a wee longer, but much slimmer and lighter.<\/p>\n


\nSo slim, in fact, that it is dwarfed by the A700’s lens mount.<\/p>\n


\nAnother angle might show just how cute it looks on the A700. Kinda like a pancake lens, but tall and skinny instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My latest lens acquisition – the Zenit Industar 61 L\/Z 50mm F2.8 Macro for M42 screw mount! It is one of the most highly regarded Ukranian Leica copies, and the L in its name means that it contains Lanthanum. Its M42 mount means I can use it on my Sony Alpha 700 and Minolta Dynax […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}