{"id":892,"date":"2007-06-10T10:41:39","date_gmt":"2007-06-10T10:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=892"},"modified":"2015-08-09T08:37:23","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T08:37:23","slug":"dt-on-d7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=892","title":{"rendered":"DT on D7"},"content":{"rendered":"

And now, for shots from the Minolta Dynax 7<\/a>, with the Sony 11-18mm F4.5-5.6 DT lens borrowed from smashpOp<\/a>. All shots using the Dynax 7 with Fujifilm Superia 400 film, unless I have stated that it was shot with my Sony A100<\/a>.<\/p>\n


\nDynax 7 with Peleng 8mm F3.5 circular fisheye<\/a>, +1 compensation just in case, F16 1\/15s.<\/p>\n


\nSame lens, on the Sony A100, becomes close to a diagonal fisheye.<\/p>\n


\n11mm F22 1\/15s. The misaligned frame is due to operator error at the film scanner. Not me!<\/p>\n


\n13mm F22 1\/15s. This is as wide as I can go without vignetting. The lens does not have a marking for 13mm so it looks closest to 14mm.<\/p>\n


\n11mm F11 1\/40s ISO100 on the Sony A100, which has an equivalent field of view of a 16.5mm lens.<\/p>\n


\n18mm F13 1\/20s, still with the 11-18mm.<\/p>\n


\n18mm F13 1\/45s. This was using the Sony 18-70mm F3.5-5.6 kit lens instead.<\/p>\n


\n22mm F13 1\/45s. This is as wide as I can go without vignetting. The lens does not have a marking for 22mm so it looks closest to 24mm.<\/p>\n


\nI then popped my Tamron 1.4x AF teleconverter and Minolta 50mm F1.4 lens on the Dynax 7, for what it reports as 75mm F2.0 at 1\/500s. I turned to Smooth Transition Focus mode and attempted to camwhore. Even my steady hands could not brace for SEVEN CONSECUTIVE MIRROR SLAPS<\/b>!<\/p>\n

STF mode shoots 7 shots on the same frame, each with a change in aperture to produce a smooth, creamy out-of-focus area, similiar to the Minolta\/Sony 135mm F2.8 T4.5 STF lens.<\/p>\n

If the 1\/500s shutter speed is to be believed, I must’ve shot 7 frames in 1\/500s. 7 divided by 1\/500s is 3500 frames per second. Eat that Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III!<\/p>\n

Of course, it sounded more like a 7fps shot. I don’t know, I need to finish the current roll before I can do some proper testing to find out the maximum speed.<\/p>\n


\n50mm F1.4, STF mode makes it 1\/500s F4.5.<\/p>\n


\nUsing the Sony 11-18mm again, at 15mm 1\/200s F8 in STF mode, manual focus to minimum focusing distance (25cm!)<\/p>\n


\n15mm F4.5 1\/90s. Now there’s vignetting! Alas, I should’ve stopped down because I was still far away from the mininum 1\/15s required to get a steady picture at 15mm.<\/p>\n

Yes, there’s no in-body stabilization on the Dynax 7.<\/p>\n


\nSTF mode on a moving subject! Sony 11-18mm at 18mm F9.5 1\/20s. Something tells me this STF mode is going to be very, very fun.<\/p>\n


\nA quick test of the Dynax 7’s Ratio 2:1 mode with my Sony HVL-F56AM flash<\/a>. 11mm 1\/60s F6.7.<\/p>\n


\nThis time around, 15mm 1\/30s F22 and yet there was vignetting. I have no idea why.<\/p>\n


\n11mm 1\/20s F22. Again, misaligned frame due to bad scanner operator. Check out the flare!<\/p>\n

The following shots were all shot with the Sony A100.<\/p>\n


\nWhat about infrared performance? 11mm F4.5 ISO1600 3.2 seconds on the Sony A100 with a China-made 77mm infrared filter. There is a hotspot in the middle, sadly, marring its use for infrared photography. Stopping down usually brings out the hotspot… but it’s already there, wide open!<\/p>\n


\nIn comparison to the Sony 18-70mm F3.5-5.6 kit lens, 18mm F3.5 ISO1600 3.2 seconds. Then again, hotspots could be dependent on the object being shot. A proper tripod and bright sunlight could give more concrete results.<\/p>\n


\n18mm F5.6 ISO400 1\/60s on both the 11-18mm and kit lens. (Guess which is which.) Nope, the 11-18mm does not underexpose like some reviews claim; it is merely the camera having to face a wider scene with more bright and dark subjects. I used Aperture Priority to take both shots, and both metered at 1\/60s. The A100 tends to save the highlights, especially so with backlit subjects. To counter this, I usually tap the AEL button on the subject to spotmeter on it.<\/p>\n


\nMacro with the 11-18mm at 11mm F4.5 with flash.<\/p>\n


\nWide-angle jump with camera in hand!<\/p>\n


\nFisheye jump with camera in hand!<\/p>\n

For a blast to the past, check out an interview about the then up-and-coming Konica Minolta Dynax 7 Digital<\/a>. Yes, the CCD shifts over 1 centimeter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And now, for shots from the Minolta Dynax 7, with the Sony 11-18mm F4.5-5.6 DT lens borrowed from smashpOp. All shots using the Dynax 7 with Fujifilm Superia 400 film, unless I have stated that it was shot with my Sony A100. Dynax 7 with Peleng 8mm F3.5 circular fisheye, +1 compensation just in case, […]<\/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-892","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\/892","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=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9657,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions\/9657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}