{"id":938,"date":"2007-08-28T10:05:10","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T10:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=938"},"modified":"2014-08-29T08:05:29","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T08:05:29","slug":"a-mount-to-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=938","title":{"rendered":"A-mount To Something"},"content":{"rendered":"

More geeking out!<\/p>\n


\nTamron 24-135mm F3.5-5.6 lens for Minolta\/Sony A-mount<\/b><\/p>\n

Apertures:
\n24mm onwards F3.5
\n28mm onwards F4
\n45mm onwards F4.5
\n50mm onwards F5
\n75mm onwards F5.6<\/p>\n

Not as bright as the Minolta\/Sony 24-105mm F3.5-4.5<\/b> sadly, but still beautiful as a walkaround on full frame. 24mm is phenomenal. 24mm on APS-C is still very convenient, and 135mm is sweet.<\/p>\n


\nThis is beautiful. Ribbed like a Star Wars starship. The gold ring is very captivating. Even the rear mount looks pretty, like the back of a Carl Zeiss 85mm F1.4. It also comes with a special Tamron 50th Anniversary cap. The Nikon and Canon versions don’t have this cap. Must be a bonus for the Alpha male (Alpha female where applicable).<\/p>\n


\nDecent bokeh at 135mm F5.6.<\/p>\n

Found at Bintang Maju, Maju Junction.<\/p>\n


\nMinolta 28-105mm F3.5-4.5 lens for Minolta\/Sony A-mount<\/b><\/p>\n


\nShot at 105mm F4.5 1\/25th of a second.<\/p>\n

I found this in Foto Miami, KL Plaza, Bintang Walk. Small, light and bright. Just a bit less wider than the classic 24-105mm F3.5-4.5 lens. If not for my Vivitar Series 1 28-105mm F2.8-3.8 I would’ve considered this. It’s decently sharp at 105mm F4.5, with the classic Minolta colors, and smooth bokeh.<\/p>\n

I’m beginning to miss the Minolta 35-105mm F3.5-4.5 lens I sold; it was a good example of Minolta bokeh. Minolta had always been big on bokeh, throwing in circular apertures with all their RS (ReStyled) lenses.<\/p>\n


\nGuess what’s different about this picture’s bokeh.<\/p>\n


\nThat’s right – a loose aperture blade!<\/p>\n


\nStrangely, other than the misshaped bokeh, pictures from it look fine. This is for the Pentax K-mount. Yes, I held the lens in front of the Sony A100.<\/p>\n


\nI found the Sigma EF-500 DG Super<\/b> for Minolta\/Sony iTTL mount. It does wireless TTL, HSS and manual power mode, feature-wise equivalent to the Sony HVL-F56AM I have. Those who are looking for this can find it in Kotaraya, just up the stairs, behind the big camera shop at the corner.<\/p>\n

However, it is not as powerful; only at 105mm zoom does it give a guide number of 50 meters. In comparison, the Sony HVL-F56AM does 56 meters at 85mm zoom! It also requires a separate press to release the swivel heads in two directions, and its flash head is 1-2cm longer.<\/p>\n


\nWhat if I put my Minolta 70-210mm F4.0 beercan lens<\/a> with the Tamron 1.4x and Kenko 2x teleconverter? I get a better quality 600mm F11 lens, better than my previous 600mm F11 combo<\/a>!<\/p>\n


\nSince my beercan has very low levels of chromatic aberration, it does not show up with teleconverters.<\/p>\n


\nA shot with the previous 600mm F11 combo would have colors bleeding onto the crow.<\/p>\n


\nThe creamy bokeh still shows.<\/p>\n


\n(Just a plain beercan shot.)<\/p>\n


\nMy Sony HVL-F56AM flash<\/a> came with a pouch; unfortunately, it did not come with a belt strap. I had a cobbler add on a leather strap so it could be strapped to my belt. It also fits a lens the size of the beercan (55mm filter diameter) as seen in the image on the right. However, I do not recommend putting heavy lenses and a flash on the left-side configuration.<\/p>\n


\nI’ve also been experimenting with custom white balance as of late; this is at 5500 Kelvin, to give a more film-like color tone. Flourescent lights come in a variety of flavors; some green, some daylight-adjusted. Below is the Auto White Balance version.<\/p>\n


\nI have too many 70-210mm lenses for the Minolta\/Sony A-mount; from left: Minolta 70-210mm F4.0 beercan, Cosina 70-210mm F2.8-4.0 push-pull (Vivitar Series 1 rebadge), Sigma 70-210mm F4.0-5.6 push-pull<\/b> (new!)<\/p>\n

The Sigma is the most compact of the lot, but it was broke to begin with; it cannot focus to infinity at 70mm, and draws into regular focus as you push to 210mm. It reminds one of the old vari-focal zoom lenses, where you’d have to zoom first, then refocus<\/b>! Modern lenses keep focus when you zoom in and out. I reckon something inside was misaligned.<\/p>\n

It’s also aged as heck, pulled out of a box of junk (yet to be blogged about). Its rubber coating had melted and was sticky, which I had to file off tediously.<\/p>\n


\nIt makes for some trippy shots. Defocused images have a spherical distortion about them.<\/p>\n


\nFocused wayyy beyond infinity, methinks.<\/p>\n


\nAnd yet, you could spell portrait lens with this. All these shots were not post-processed; color tones were a result of playing around with white balance along the Kelvin line (2500K-9900K) and the Green-Magenta axis.<\/p>\n


\nThis is the 2500K end of Custom White Balance.<\/p>\n


\nIt gives a surreal, cool feel.<\/p>\n


\nYou can even induce iodine-like color onto your shots.<\/p>\n


\nIn other news, my Olympus OM-2000 is acting up; the mirror is starting to slide outwards. I suspect aging glue. However, nothing like a little nudge to get the mirror back into alignment on its plate.<\/p>\n


\nA Canon EOS 300D disassembled. Yes, they use Sony LCD screens.<\/p>\n

So what do I think of the news, with the Canon 40D, Canon 1Ds MkIII, Nikon D300 and Nikon D3 announced?<\/p>\n

Well, Nikon finally did Live View properly, with contrast-based auto-focus (the Canon Live View works like Olympus, where you have to press the AF-On button to auto-focus in Live View). Nikon also has ISO 25600 (if you choose to choose ISO in 1\/3rd stops I will confiscate the camera from you and slap you with one of those solid Nikkor lenses you pride yourself owning<\/i>). Plus Nikon being on CMOS finally rids the noise levels associated with CCD sensors. They also have a sweeter Nikkor 14-24mm F2.8 full-frame lens out.<\/p>\n

Of course, the 36×23.9mm FX sensor size is not true full-frame; full-frame is 36x24mm! Technically you’re getting a 1.004x crop factor.<\/p>\n

September 4th 2007, however, is when I’d expect the new Sony to be announced.<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Who knows, there might be somebody with one of those new Canon\/Nikon bodies at the Sony launch. Though, it wouldn’t be new news… unless it was say, the unannounced Olympus or Pentax. \ud83d\ude2e<\/p>\n

…and that’s not all. This does not count my most recent acquisition, something in the lines of birding territory. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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