Snap the town by Mag lens (3)

How weird ! ? ? ?  (of the image of Mag lens or my eyes ?) —– I know.   😀

(I’m going to further this with G10 lens etc — some may say, It’s an obsession.) ——– Oh, my my my, it’s snowing.

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Snap the Town by Mag lens (2)

Some more snap shot by a homemade So-called Mag Lens.

With your annoyance even more to come.  😀 

PS :  By the way, I’m editing this blog on Toshiba Laptop with W-XP and Google Picasa —– though, when I see the same on iPad, the images looks darker and the color seems more saturated (in other words,”Picture looks more exaggerated”)  They were displayed differently on each device by device but my intention was not so dark.   Murky doesn’t necessary looks gloomy.  😀

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Snap the Town (by Mag Lens)

It was nothing to do with Xmas though, I went to a camera shopping.  Alongside, I had my Mag lens, Fun camera lens, Sony A7R with me.  (I made a fun with shop staffs while testing D850.)  On the way back, I did some snap shots of the town-scape.  (All of them were shot by Mag lens except the last one which was by Fun camera lens)  = Have a fun.   😀

How’s that ?   😀

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G10 Lens

Generally speaking, the converging lens was designed to project an image — and supposedly a good image.  So, whether it was a cheap toy camera, one time use camera, their lens was designed to make an image as good as its cost allowed.  Its mean when I re-use those lenses, naturally they create quite usable images. (and from their deep depth of field with rather small iris, those images were somewhat focus-free)  But, even among my homemade lenses, if the lens came from somewhere which was not expected to form clear projection (by its lens own), the image was rather hope-less (without having the other lens to compensate the aberration together)   A Lens, which I scavenged from Canon G10 compact camera was that kind.

Photo left was a PENTAX Zoom compact camera.  From this one what I utilized was a mere lens barrel.  And from the photo middle, Canon G10, compact zoom camera. From this massive Hi-tech camera, what I found useful was just a front element of the lens, that’s all. (Like a stepper motor driven F-aperture, stepper motor driven focusing unit etc etc — not mention the screen system, image sensor etc may be used “one-day”  😀 )  And the photo right was the finished product, G10 lens for Sony A7R. = Looks cool isn’t it !  (sample photos which I said hopeless quality may come soon)  😀  (Zen Buddhist would say that, Even a hopeless lens should have a Karma which made him to play a role.) —– Incidentally, today (06-12-2017) was the exact 100 years anniversary of the Independence of the Finland —– Kiitos !

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Halina Lens

Hong Kong based Chinese Co. who made Halina camera, Hakin was an interesting company.   In fact, Halina itself was an utterly insignificant cheap camera still, they started to make the cameras as early as in the 1950s = started about the same time to many Japanese camera makers.  They all started to make cheap tin-toy cameras.  From there, the Japanese camera industry developed and evolved to the today’s Hi-tech industry. 

In contrast, Halina stayed almost the same position since.— or, they might just stick to the cheap products to sell in the poor country.  —– I would say they were serious people though, they only managed low-tech, or they never wanted more.  (It might be an old Chinese philosophy to know the position !)   (Still, they made TLR (ish) camera, Auto-exposure camera even 8 mm Cine = surprisingly many many cameras.)   It seemed, they try to survive against digital camera (unless the PC / Printer was handy no print to give to the friends ) still, phone camera killed them off.

For me, it was yet another Toy camera lens still, yet another try.

In most of the case, so-called Focus free was done by the smaller F-aperture’s Depth of Field.  So, instead to have focus free, I emphasized even stronger blurred image by removing the small F-aperture (iris) (= hole in a plastic = Photo left)  Then, the Lens alone was mounted in the center of a metal panel of the camera mount (photo middle) —– Then, on the camera (Sony A7R) (Photo right)

What the photo looks like with this lens was —–

(Those photos were from the Dorkbot gathering.)

(Not the best occasion to test the lens still, the lens could handle the very tricky lighting condition rather well ! —– Other than the big halation, the images were quite normal aren’t they.)

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Sky–Moon–Pinhole

This photo was a morning view from the kitchen window. (But not everyday’s view.)

I was making a thin metal panel (commonly known as a drink can — I didn’t buy = I just found it.  :-D) to a DSLR Pinhole panel.   And this was the outside view then. (30-11-2017 / 16:03)

The same outside was looked like this by the Pinhole !

Then next moment, the moon appeared on the sky (may be the cloud hiding her was moved away)

What ? —– I took a picture with D810 / Zeiss 18 mm lens as a fixed shot.  (16:14:40)

A while later, the moon disappeared and the sky got dark. (If you take a photo of the dark sky, they will show you a red color = may be a reflection of the city’s illumination and the shorter wave-length of light (= like blue) was attenuated easily in the earth’s atmospheres, hence the sky looked red.)

Whatsoever, have a quiet nice evening.

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XP Again ?

It’s not right.  The HP laptop, which I’ve been using for net connection, suddenly died. In the righteousness of the eastern heaven’s standard, such unfairness shouldn’t be happened to such nice man like me !  😀   Theoretically, I can still check Email or my blog using my phone though I wouldn’t do such awkward work.  HP seemed to be hopeless. Even worse, it’s on Sunday = no help. My friend in the WW workshop texted me “It will be saved” though, I can’t wait till Wednesday meeting.  With a kind of last moment struggle, I tried to revive long dead Toshiba with XP on it. —– Basically, this one is working except the connection to the net. (MS said, that they can’t configure) THEN, if MS said so, how about IntelPROSet Wireless ? = Oh !  It’s works.  Then configure its connection with the router password etc etc. (so-called tinkering = and update many program)   😀 

It was a funny situation.  Window was saying that they no longer support, still they supply some update for XP.   In this way, I managed to access my Email and a lots of lots of trouble, reached to my blog (this one) —- still, in a certain extent it IS working !

So, somewhat sneaked out the trouble, and while thinking whether HP could be repaired or not or buy new one —– I’m testing this one (= TOSHIBA saved from a scrapyard) to upload a new post. (while finding out loads of mismatch.  😀  )

Still it’s a fun !   Honest.

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Twilight in Greenwhich

It was a rather murky twilight moment in Greenwich.  That’s all.

Looks rather normal picture was taken by so-called Fun Lens.  Fuzzy images were taken by the Gaudy Lens, and if it was very fuzzy, they were done by the Mag Lens —– but I don’t think you ever bother to know.   😀

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Autumn Color

Those photos were taken by a single glass homemade lens, called Gaudy Lens on Sony A7R Camera —– you may wonder why needed to use High spec’ camera = the matter was not the spec’ but its small size.   😀

This last photo was by the Mag’ Lens, not by Gaudy Lens —– any way looks the same = doesn’t matter.  As those both lenses got a lots of halation, picture never looks sharp.    Yes that’s what I wanted. = I just wanted atmosphere, or Impression.   In that requirment, those lenses are doing good job.   😀

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Moth

(It seemed, those photos were the color comparison sample of the lenses.  Left was taken by a current Canon EF macro but the right was taken by a lens from a Kodak Instamatic mounted on an aluminium can in reverse direction. — See next photos)

The old lens for a film may be adjusted to the color compensation on the print making then.

Monstrous home-made lens is still working as a macro lens though, not very easy to use (Very dark with x6 magnification = you don’t know where you are watching)  —– Yet still, think the cost = don’t ask too much.   😀 

The small moth parched on a washing-up sponge must be a survivor (or, could she be the one waiting next spring ? — I’m not sure)

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