Macro shots (2)

On this post, all the shots were made by Pentax 110 Auto 24 mm lens on Sony A7R4. And looks like macro shots were the heavily cloped small part of the original photo’s part enlargement —– can you find where it’s came from ?

So, it is clear, a lens I bought for £5 from a junk box, Pentax 110 Auto 24 mm lens has the quality of the (almost) top lens, and the 60MP image sensor of Sony A7R4 can capture (almost) whole amount of those visual information there. Therefore, a wide angle casual shot of a 24 mm lens was in fact, holding the details of the macro level too.

Pretty Good isn’t it ! So, I like this Pentax 110 Auto lens on the Sony A7R4 camera always in my pocket. 😀

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Macro shot ?

Z55 – A7R4

Once before I found a trouble of manual focusing in the Sony camera. So, I was testing Zeiss 55mm lens on A7R4 body with Focus peaking and the Focus magnifire. —— This time both function worked well = AND I amazed by its fine details of the captured image. = The silk flower was 100 cm away yet the enlarged image showed a real close-up = macro quality.

Z55 – A7R4

I wonder IF this fine quality came from the quality of the Zeiss Sonner FE 1.8/55 ZA lens or the camera’s 60MP image sensor ?

AI Nikkor 50 – A7R4

For comparison, this one was AI Nikkor 50 mm F1.2 (at F1.2 / 100 cm) on A7R4 (this 50 years old 50 mm lens seems to be a bit softer than Zeiss 55 mm —– But, F1.8 lens got to be sharper than F1.2 !)

AI N 50 – N Z7

Then, how about the AI Nikkor 50 mm F1.2 lens on Nikon Z7 ? It’s haed to tell if a bit softer image was caused by a larger F aperture (F1.2 instead of F1.8) or a bit fewer pixel number (46MP instead of 62MP).

P110-24 – A7R4

On the same setting, I tested it with the remotest possible lens = Pentax 110 Auto 24mm F2.8 lens === 24 mm lens image was far smaller than the 55 mm lens. Still, the enlarged image showed quite a fine detail !

It’s suggests that as long as the lens was seriously designed good lens, its can produces very fine details = IF the resulting image was not very fine, it was because, the camera / image sensor / image processer was not good enough.

P110 – NZ7

This is the comparison = The same Pentax 110 lens was mounted on the Nikon Z7 body through a homemade NEX – NZ adapter. —– Even though the same optical image was projected, the smaller sensor seemed to produces a bit rougher image.

Godo – A7R4

So, see the image of the lens which was not seriousely designed or made = homemade Godo-lens.

NZ-B – N-Z7

Then, how about the image made by yet another fine camera Nikon Z7. —– But (you believe it or not) I don’t have an authentic lens for this Z7. (I’ve been empoverished by its XQD memory (made by Sony), expensive spare battery etc —– I can not afford to buy their lens.)

So, the Z7 camera was tested with another homemade lens, NZ-B lens which showed very fine undefined image !

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Daikon 2020

So, I’m watching the same windowscape of my kitchen window.

Only a difference in these days was, the leaves of the Daikon head. Which was growing well. Some of you might say that I can cut them small and eat or put in a Miso soup —– I know. But I want them to live free and grow. (I’ve tormented the Daikon root badly enough, boil her alive and eat = I need to make a hypocritical excuse by humainly saving the leaves)

It’s a spring. (Forget the hell outside or the world beyond)

So, the Daikon is having her flower bud —– though, would the flower open or not is the different story.

https://yoshizen.wordpress.com/2017/05/17/daikon-flowers/

When she got 30cm tall, before opening the flowers, she lost a vigor of the life. I couldn’t see any reason why, —– it was same as last time. How shame. (May be I need to learn about the Daikon plant start from its seed, not the left over top of a Daikon food.)

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MP Cherry 2020

Those photos of the Multi-petal Cherry was taken by a homemade lens, NZ-B lens on Nikon Z7

May be in a normal sense, such lens may not serve for a photographical use. Yet still, any image could be an image as long as the author = I wanted. Why not ?

Under the COVID-19 pandemic, our activities and the movement has been restricted, so the picture I am producing may looks one pattern too. (Sorry)

The lens NZ-B seemed to have two glasses of which I re-mounted into a zooming barrel and able to focus from infinity to 1/3 close-up. Still, born to be a simple junk lens the image never be sharp. —— But that was what I wanted. 😀

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Cherry 2020

This photo was taken by Pla-B lens on NZ-7

by Pla-B too

By Nikkor 50mm F1.2 on Sony A7R4

By Tamron SP 90mm on Sony A7R4

By Mag lens on A7R4

Mag lens

Mag lens

Mag lens

Mag lens

In the south London, we saw almost no frost = rather warmer wet winter. = May be it caused this early Cherry flowers. (I’m not sure of this variety of cherry ?) —– and the other tree = Somei-yoshino also started to open.

This Somei-Yoshino is a month too early. (Taken by Pla-B lens) —– Strange phenomenon of this photo IS, = see this photo while your one eye closed = don’t you feel that the photo looks 3D !

I hope, COVID-19 wouldn’t hit this country too hard nor the locust comes here. ( —– Yet, last July, I knew the very moment, when the 7th seal was opened. )

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Magnolia by Normal lens

N50-1.2

Again, they are the same Magnolia flower but taken by the ordinary lens = Nikkor 50mm F1.2 (set at F1.2)

N50-1.2

With wide open iris = F1.2, DOF was very shallow and out of focus bokeh was such big.

N50-1.2

N50-1.2 no ext ring

And, this was really the ordinally (without an extension ring) shot. 😀

Z85-1.4

Then, those following photos were taken by the Zeiss Planer 85mm F1.4 (at 1.4 setting and with extension ring)

Z85-1.4

Z85-1.4

Z85-1.4

Z85-1.4

Zeiss 85mm has a bit smaller F-aperture but longer focul length = so that having a more or less the same DOF —– still show a bit more solid image.

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Early Magnolia 2020

In this post, the photos were taken by a homemade lens Godo Lens, except no.4.

Those photos were taken by Tamron SP 90mm Macro on Nikon Z7.

I featured this flower twice (?) before using another fuzzy lenses. But, it seems the people takes the flower branch home there is no branch left on the lower part of the tree, and made me very difficult to take picture. (So, I needed to resort with something special measure. 😀 )

Those following five pictures were taken by the other homemade lens “Pla-B” Lens” —– though, with the bad weather I trid three times to get a kind of results. 😀

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Walk with Godo lens

Among my homemade lens, being as if it was almost ordinary lens, Godo lens is the most remarkable lens. There was no eccentric feature like 1/2, 1/4 lens kind but two ordinary unknown origins lens put together. (yet, one of them came from my friend Gordon = hence Godo lens ) And the lens happened to produce quite normal image (if not a lots of halation) together with quite nice softness. On top of that, thanks to a Chinese helicoid ring, good convenience of close up use.

I went back to the so-called Perpetual Cherry Tree and found that the area was in a construction site. (Tree was still there and seems flowering though)

I’m not sure whether they are bamboo or reed ?

I like a natural looks quality of this macro. (Too sharp image of most of macro makes the flower looks like an animal body parts) – – – Unless the one was a forensic scientist, we may not like to see too sharp detailed flower parts.

For the cost almost nothing homemade lens, I would say, this is the good lens.

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Heaviest Gadget for 6×7

This is a homemade bellows for Pentax 6X7 camera, I made it 45 years ago. — ( I was working for botanical photography at the Uni’s Makino Herbarium then. Though, I was using more of 35mm Nikon camera – – – – since, Makino’s archive was 35mm Kodachrome and 6×7 camera was mostly for other journalistic subjects.)

This bellows’ solid structure does well stand against the heavy shutter, mirror shock though, the whole unit (with camera body) was too heavy to carry around = it never went out field. (For field work, I was using 135mm F4 Pentax 6×7 macro lens) I designed this bellows system for EL-Nikkor 100mm F4. So, this system can make the image from infinity to x1.5.

And now, it is more like a technical sample or, industrial remain. 😀

( And in reality, this device didn’t under take the work much = theoretically it should be useful though, in practice, there isn’t much needs of tilt and shift, and in most of the case, the depth of the field of macro lens when it was stopped down, could cover the needs.)

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Pla (B) Lens

Pla Lens (A) was somewhat a kind of flop in my try. —– Then, Zen wouldn’t give up. 😀 Why not to try with a different lens. Anyway, the luck is in a chance encounter (with a suitable character lens)

A lens I found was a single meniscus glass lens which can make the image like this photo —– of course, this lens could be mounted in the centre of much lager lens though, such large lens tend to have rather longer focal length etc etc. So, I decided to make a hole in the centre of this lens and put other one-time use camera lens in that hole. It took only 5 min’ when I made a hole in that plastic magnifier lens, but this time I had to drill a hole into a hard glass lens. If I push too hard, the glass will chip or worse clack altogether. = slow slowly work took half day.

The one-time use camera lens was pretty small. (I used only front lens ) Which makes the image like this. ( = unlike you expected, the centre lens produce the bokeh, and peripheral lens would creates detailed image. )

So, the concentric double lens was mounted on the camera = AND suprisingly, the image came out was rather normal. = the image was just fuzzy mediocre lens kind. (The size of centre lens was 6mm, Outer lens was 14mm which has 4.4 times larger area = in exposure level, the effect of 6mm lens was too small = negligible) (Yet still, the fuzziness wasn’t too bad even though it was far less than what I expected)

I need to get better subject —– image was somewhat similar to the Godo lens.

The fuzzy lens suite for the flower photo. Nobody complain. 😀

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