{"id":817,"date":"2007-02-23T05:39:49","date_gmt":"2007-02-23T05:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=817"},"modified":"2015-08-09T08:07:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T08:07:21","slug":"50s-rage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=817","title":{"rendered":"50’s Rage"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe 50’s are in! From left, Olympus Zuiko 50mm F1.8; Canon 50mm F1.8 Mk II; Minolta 50mm F1.4 (pre RS), Fujinon 50mm F1.4 (without body).<\/p>\n

I recently bought the Olympus from Mustaffa, a friendly guy who teaches black-and-white film processing! (Which is what every self-respecting B&W shooter does, pushing and pulling, dodging and burning, and having your own darkroom with funky chemicals.) Learning that would save a lot on film processing fees, so if you’re interested, email him at mustaffaaziz8@yahoo.com.<\/p>\n

Sure, you could shoot black-and-white on digital but you don’t get the same contrast range.<\/p>\n


\nFrom left: My Olympus OM-2000<\/a>, Mustaffa’s Leica M6 TTL, his Olympus OM-2.<\/p>\n

I finally got to touch a Leica rangefinder! Yes, it was way brighter than Kingsley’s Yashica Electro GSN 35, and the yellow secondary image was very obvious. Its film winder was a lot more refined and discreet, and he installed a soft shutter button.<\/p>\n

The cloth shutter, of course, was very quiet.<\/p>\n


\nThe OM-2 was also an amazingly engineered camera<\/a>, with fabric shutter, air cushion dampeners, and various springs to make its mirror so much softer than any other SLR. I couldn’t find the air tunnel they claim softens the sound.<\/p>\n


\nMy Olympus family. From left: Vivitar 2x teleconverter, Vivitar 24mm F2.0<\/a>, Olympus Zuiko 50mm F1.8, Olympus Zuiko 35-70mm F3.5-4.8, Olympus Zuiko 70-210mm F4.5-5.6.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Olympus Zuiko 50mm F1.8 is amazingly sharp! I think this was either F5.6 or F8. Click on the picture for a bigger view.<\/p>\n


\nI love Fujifilm Superia film. This was the ASA200 version. Gotta love them emerald greens!<\/p>\n


\nUsing the 50mm F1.8.<\/p>\n


\n24mm F2 (colors and lightness not adjusted. I love how the contrast is there, but doesn’t kill the shadows. Or maybe my OM-2000 overexposes just a bit.)<\/p>\n


\nNear Burger King, Desa Sri Hartamas.<\/p>\n


\nAnd now, guess what this is!<\/p>\n


\nBelow it, lies this. Yep, Jeff of Ampang Park had a broken Canon 50mm F1.8 Mark II lens lying around, and let me try my hand at fixing it. Note the 5-blade circular aperture.<\/p>\n


\nThe front element.<\/p>\n


\nThe front element, when reversed in front of another lens, gives awesome barrelling distortion<\/b> and a closeup factor of about +20, I think. Shot at 35mm F36 ISO1600 with flash (to get enough focus to reach Jeff!) Yes, the Sony 18-70mm F3.5-5.6 lens<\/a> was already at infinity.<\/p>\n


\nSwitching the lens to Manual Focus disengages the gears.<\/p>\n


\nThe front element, mounted on my infrared-modded Fujfilm Digital Q1.<\/p>\n


\n20mm, F22, 1\/60, ISO400 with flash.<\/p>\n


\n18mm, F3.5, 1\/10, ISO400. Focusing changes the strength of the effect.<\/p>\n


\n45mm, F5.6, 1\/15, ISO400.<\/p>\n


\n50mm, F22, 1\/80, ISO400 with flash.<\/p>\n


\nThis is goood sheeet.<\/p>\n

Oh yeah after I was done playing with it, I just applied some force and popped it back on. It worked like magic and focused when I tried it on a Canon EOS 5 at Jeff’s the next day! I didn’t intend to disconnect it again though it had a cool effect. However, if you do permanently disconnect your Canon 50mm F1.8 Mark II, you know you could use the front element for some funky stuff. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 50’s are in! From left, Olympus Zuiko 50mm F1.8; Canon 50mm F1.8 Mk II; Minolta 50mm F1.4 (pre RS), Fujinon 50mm F1.4 (without body). I recently bought the Olympus from Mustaffa, a friendly guy who teaches black-and-white film processing! (Which is what every self-respecting B&W shooter does, pushing and pulling, dodging and burning, and […]<\/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-817","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\/817","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=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9629,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions\/9629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}