{"id":1384,"date":"2010-02-01T05:31:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T05:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1384"},"modified":"2010-02-01T05:31:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T05:31:31","slug":"vivitar-fixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1384","title":{"rendered":"Vivitar, Fixed."},"content":{"rendered":"


\nI revisited my ol’ Vivitar 24mm F2.0 DIY Tilt-Shift<\/a> and made it a regular-focusing 24mm F2.0 by adding two screws to hold the lens to the mount! Also added a little tape to make it lock in place when mounted on the camera. This also obstructed the aperture lever, but I meant to use it as a true constant aperture<\/b> lens, fixed at F2.0.<\/p>\n

It was, of course, a reversible procedure, so I could reenable tilt-shift functionality when I wanted. It’s pretty fun as a regular lens, too!<\/p>\n


\nBeing all manual focus, I tried to camwhore. I had to take a burst of shots while moving back and forth. The brightline bokeh is so offending in this, I will remove it for the next few shots (and thus, this is the only picture with honest bokeh.)<\/p>\n

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\nClick picture for larger version! It resolves amazingly even wide open, albeit with a fair bit of haze, and is prone to flare. I had to do some Unsharp Masking to pull out microcontrast from the gauzy picture. <\/p>\n


\nIts minimum focus distance is 30cm, for some impressive wide-angle close-up capability.<\/p>\n

This makes this lens my closest-focusing rectilinear lens (the Peleng 8mm F3.5 M42 is a circular fisheye.)<\/p>\n


\nAt close range, it picks up a heck load of detail off Shawn<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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\nFor the pixel peepers. Note that I have pulled the shadows a fair bit in DxO Optics Pro 6.1.2 hence the slightly artificial look. Note the extreme coma in the taxi lights in the top-left quadrant, the purple fringing on the taxi in the center and the spherical aberration in the bottom-left corner. Disregarding that, there is still a lot of rich detail in the center!<\/p>\n


\nI love 24mm on FF. If Carl Zeiss decides to come out with a 24mm F1.4 ZA (A-mount) I would definitely buy it!<\/p>\n


\nManual-focused, rangefinder guesstimation style. Here’s Suzanne “mohawk eyebrow” Lee<\/a> who is back in town!<\/p>\n


\nOhai!<\/p>\n


\nIrene likens me to a banana. Have fun in your new (old) office!<\/p>\n


\nMuzz got relocated, too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I revisited my ol’ Vivitar 24mm F2.0 DIY Tilt-Shift and made it a regular-focusing 24mm F2.0 by adding two screws to hold the lens to the mount! Also added a little tape to make it lock in place when mounted on the camera. This also obstructed the aperture lever, but I meant to use it […]<\/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-1384","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\/1384","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=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}