3 – 11 Sunrise
Like on the morning of 9-11 in the United States, the sun doesn’t rise straight on 3-11 in Japan.
And I saw it the same in here.
Nine years ago Japn saw its one of the biggest earthquake and the Tsunami. Since then even the sun seems to aboid to see the eye to eye straight. ———-
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Morning Sky – Dec’19
This one was by the Fragmented lens on Nikon Z. (Camera itself set the ISO to 12800 (not me) = So, the noise was too high — still, as an image, it wasn’t too bad. Unlike a soft smooth image, the roughened up texture showed quite strong impact. I like it.
This image was too murky though, that was what this homemade lens was made for.
Only a decent lens in this post = Zeiss Distagon —– costed me a bit. 😀
Small part of disposable camera lens makes not too bad image !
This Pentax lens itself IS a pretty good decent lens, even if it was for 110 size camera but mounted on a full size mirrorless Nikon Z.
We can take picture in any excuse. Nothing hinder us to be creative.
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First Reiwa (令和) Sky
So, this is the sunrise (over the roof) 1st of April 2019 06:18 ( = British Summer time 07:18) by Zeiss 18mm F3.5 on Nikon 850
And this is the same sky but a minuets before of the top photo, taken by 110 Pentax 24mm on Nikon Z7 (It seems Zeiss lens showed much clear image —– of course, 110 lens costed me only few pounds as a junk, in contrast Zeiss was £800 even for a second-hand = be humble, don’t expect too much) 😀
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PS : Looking around the Net-sphere, it seemed that the news of naming the new era in Japan took so much attention from all over the world. The tradition to name the Era originally came from Han dynasty of China though, like most of the culture in China it ceased to exist under the communist rule. (So that the young Chinese except Taiwanese, even can not read their own classic literature like Laozi 老子, Confucius 孔子 — let alone to understand them) Yet still, as nearly 1/4 of world population is Chinese, some of them might have studied classic, hence able to read the “Chinese” character 令和 of which the meaning is more or less the same to us . (Some character’s meaning is quite different between Chinese and Japanese = such as for flowers, Chinese use 華 , Japanese use 花 but for Chinese this letter 花 mean mor like a lot of mess, therefore 花子 in China mean a beggar wearing tattered rug. — without knowing this, quite few Japanese girl got their name Hanako 花子 ! )
The meaning of the character 令 is “telling or announcing” = so that, with an additional 金 (metal) to its left hand side, like this 鈴 it’s become “Bell”
And the 和 mean “come together or harmonize” so that a word 平和 mean peace ( 平mean “flat or plain”) = Everybody come together in harmony” is a Peace.
Therefore, 令和 Rei Wa mean, Calling a Harmony or Telling, be in Peace”. (May be not as strong as “Shut-up, you the Devil”) 😀 (By the way, officially Reiwa starts on the 1st of may, coinciding with the new Emperor to take the throne. This, one month ahead schedule was for the people to prepare such as for printing the calendar.)
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In Comparison — (D850/Z7/A7R)
Strangely it may sound though all those photos were taken on the same settings = AV, ISO 100, Shadow and -2 comp. But the lens of top photo was Nikon mount Zeiss 18 mm F3,5 (at 5.6) on D850 and the photos below, the Left were Pentax 110 Auto 24 mm F2.8, the Right were So-called Omunifocus Fun lens about 28 mm F13. The timings were as marked. (despite the same Shadow setting, why the sky on this picture was not so orange was = that they changed the color so quick.)
And those photos were by a Nikon Z7 camera. Left was Pentax 110 lens, Right was Fun lens. See within 2 minutes, how quickly the sky changes. By the way, camera was not stationed on a tripod but hand-held —— while changing the camera and the lenses, time fly. (In comparison, Z7 can give clearer and clean image than A7R)
Those photos were by the Sony A7R camera. Again Left was Pentax 110 lens, Right was Fun lens. Note, in here right photo was the earliest photo among all those photos. (seemingly, A7R gave the most orange shifted color)
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Morning Sky on Oct’ 2018
( 13-10-2018 / 06:04 —– by Zeiss Distagon 18mm F3.5 for Nikon on Nikon D850)
It seems this was the only second morning red sky in this autumn. Whether it was the matter of the angle of the Sun or the clarity of the Air, we don’t have red sky in summer.
(The same sky by Omnifocus Fun lens on Sony A7R —– / 06:05)
( 05:58 —– by the Kodak Vest Pocket camera lens on Sony A7R)
(05:55 —– / Zeiss Baby Ikonta lens on Sony A7R )
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Morning SKY – 18
Took on 18-01-2018/02:41 (This photo got funny reflection of the room)
England was having only +9° weather and severe gale force wind, nevertheless the life goes on and as usual, still, a morning is keep coming.
/6:45 (ISO 800, 2 sec)
Looking out the window, I noticed rather fancy sky. (Except the last photo, all the pictures here were taken by a Nikon mount Zeiss 18 mm lens / on AV mode)
/6:47 (ISO 800, 2 sec)
On front of my eyes, the Sky changes minutes by minutes.
/6:49 (ISO 200, 6 sec) —– When those 6sec exposure occurred, the camera was hand-held, while the top of the lens was pushed against the window glass. 😀
/6:54 (ISO 200, 6 sec) (Notwithstanding its hand-held 6 second, the picture was surprisingly good. —– don’t you agree ?)
/6:56 (ISO 200, 6 sec)
/06:59 (ISO 800, 1.3 sec)
/07:01(ISO 800, 1 sec) (The light in the each picture was a different aircraft —– so many of them flying)
/07:09 (ISO 800, 1/3 sec)
/07:32 (ISO 200, 1/20th sec)
/08:04 (ISO 100, 250th)
/08:33 (ISO 100, 640th)
At last, the sun came out.
/08:36 (ISO 100, 80th)
(Only this picture was taken by a homemade G9 lens on Nikon D850.)
—– Related Post / “Morning Sky” / “Paint the Morning Sky“
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F & M Window decoration for 2017
It’s an old story still, I don’t want the staffs stuck and left over. (Get clean up before the year changes. ) 😀
Hee Ha, — of course all those photos were taken before Xmas, but I was busy making a lens. 😀
And those pictures, if the image was distorted, they were taken by Nikkor Fisheye 16mm F3.5. And the rectilinear wide-angle image were by Zeiss Distagon 18mm F3.5 —– the rest of fuzzy images were taken by a homemade G9 lens all on the Nilon D850. Thanks for watching ! (Don’t drink too much tonight.) 😀
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A7 doing Good Job or just Meddling too much ?
Quite a while, time to time (I don’t remember how many years)
I’ve been taking picture of the sky from my window. Naturally, its
looks changes season to season, and it’s not necessary a dramatic
beautiful sky. It’s just a sky.
As I don’t go out for drinking or look for a bottom of the girls,
watching the sky is a healthy alternative (and cost nothing.) 😀
Not just watching but taking photo mean, by a camera.
So that, my Nikon with 18mm Zeiss lens has been a fixture on front
of the window quite a while. And, — as I got Sony A7 and the adapter
to fit a Nikon lens to its E-Mount, I tested its 18mm lens on the A7 body.
—– though, the sky over dence leafy tree is a very contrasty image =
to the SONY camera. (Canon 5D or Nikon D810 just take as it IS)
But, A7 is keep meddling (— are they try to brighten the dark shadow
of the tree ? — how do they know what image I want to have !)
DO they believe that they can make it for ME ? — how patronizing.
— should I say,”Thank you very much” OR “Silly YOU, stop it” 😦
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Exactly the same trend to “Smart Phone” with hundreds of the
Fancy App, Sony can do many tricks, such as the Panorama here.
(Above was a part of 18mm — 360 degree Panorama
— in my kitchen) 😀
And this was a Panorama made by a 16mm Nikon Fisheye lens
(vertical line shows no distortion !)
— may be a fun to some user though, I’m very sceptic to those
too much Digital intervention. It’s rather spoils the spirit of
the Photography than enhance it. Spending more time gazing
at the PC screen, than to stand against the subject = we are
going into more and more virtual environment and
losing the real touch of the life.
—– And to the camera company themselves, = if the digitally
stiched-up photo is good enough, who need to buy expensive
wide-angle lens ?
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Useless Information (?)
Image here was made by a Tri-color Pinhole which I could mount on
the A7 camera through Nikon to EOS and EOS to E-mount adapter.
(What a hustle ! = I’ll tell you later.)
During all those hustle, what I found were — (though they may not
necessary useful to you.) 😀
1) You can use Pentax-K lens cap on Nikon lens. (Photo Left)
2) Likewise, the same Pentax-K lens cap will fit to the Sony
E-mount lens. (Photo Middle)
3) Sony E-mount body cap will fit to the Nikon body. (Photo Right)
4) The adapter, EOS to E mount I got from Ebay (about £5 or so) had
a trouble — as bayonet spring was too wide and obstructing the lens
bottom goes into = I needed to file-down the width of those 3 springs
(where I marked in Red on the photo Right = see enlarged)
(Photo shows the bayonet spring and a broken hence replaced screw)
= If you found the same trouble, you need to do the same — or buy
another, more expensive one. (So, they changed the price to £7.xx) 😀
(Think, why it was cheap = being defective, it became a deadstock and
sold as a scrap. Then, Chinese guy made a Net business to sell away
= how many customers sending back and claim a money back which
would cost more, and the address may not even existed.) 😀
The funny story was, as I put negative feedback on ebay, the seller
contacted me saying if I change the feedback to positive,they will
refund me, so I replied them “As this blog explained, I’ve modified
its defect and now I’m using it, therefore no need of refund, still,
the fact remain I wouldn’t change the negative feedback” —
then, they send me yet another mail
“We will send you £2, so change the feed back to positive” =
Are they thinking that they can buy me £2 ! = What a mentality !
Is this a norm in China ? horrifying isn’t it !
To see the situation, I gave a through check of those adapters.
(To be fair, I obtained even one more EOS-NEX adapter)
In order to make a bayonet fixing tight enough= not clutter,
still smooth enough to dismount, the spring was used beneath
the craw (such as the one I’ve shown few picture before with
red mark), other cheaper alternative is to make a slit in the
claw (Photo above Left = yellow marked) and make the slit
bend to give some flexibility. Though, the other EOS-NEX
adapter showed funny character = Canon’s EFS (plastic mount)
could be mounted but metal mount thousand pound lens couldn’t.
Because the adapter’s female claw was too thick. ==> I needed
to file down the claws thinner. (Photo Right — with blue color
marker = it’s easy to see where I do need to cut !)
(It’s funny to discover, that the Canon is making their
cheap EFS lens mount even thinner and loose.)
5) Nikon G to EOS adapter sold on the Net, the rotating lever may be
too long and stack with the lens bottom. So that, if you found the sign
of such symptom, DON’T mount the lens to EOS with such adapter.
You need to file-down the tip of the lever (marked in Red in the
photo above) a bit shorter, and make sure the lever moves freely.
So, — after I’ve sorted out those troubles, I could mount my
Tri-color Pinhole (here, Pink, Yellow, Sky) to the A7 body.
( Then after thought, I should make another one for A7, since an
Olympus body cap which is fit to A7 is £0.99 and etc is free, but
the use of those adapter which is costing £5, £10 makes no sense.)
And, this was the photo of, now rather familiar view — by
the Zeiss Distagon 18mm, designed for Nikon mount.
—– A nightmare of the mount adapter IS = once the lens stack
to the body, there is no way else other than to destroy the lens.
(Pull-off the screws, fixed to the mount with sheer force or hack-saw
the lens bottom while showering the camera with saw dust.)
Is it funny ?
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PS : If you are looking for the Body Cap for Sony NEX mount to use
for a Pinhole experiment etc. or just for body cover, now in the Ebay
you can find the pair of E-mount (NEX) Rear Lens Cap + Body Cap
for £0.99 —– you don’t need to hastle finding out OM cap. 🙂
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SONY a7 for Pinhole Photo
My friend photographer, Antonio showed me a small camera.
(Along side his big Hasselblad ELM.)
It was a first encounter with SONY alpha camera —– despite
seeing a lots of camera review etc, so the photographic images
were familiar still, the real camera in its fresh was a shock to me.
Almost the same size of the M4/3 camera still, having full frame !
(And the lens attached was a Zeiss, the images were quite crisp.)
So, I tested how SONY a7 camera can handle the Pinhole.
My set of Pinhole was mounted with an adapter (in this photo
the camera was a Olympus) and made a Mono-hole image.
And this one was a Multi-Pinhole image.
Then, this one was a Double-Density Pinhole image.
And those photos were a comparison of the view of my Pinhole
against the Zeiss Planer 35mm lens. (Mind you, my Pinhole is a
wide-angle pinhole with a concave lens attached on front.)
—– the Pinhole view (left) seems wider than 28mm lens.
The most remarkable point of a7 camera IS, despite it is a full frame
camera, yet still as a mirror less, its flange back is only 18mm thin !
—– So, if a panel with a hole was attached on the camera mount, it
will have a 18mm ultra wide-angle lens’ view. And I tested it while
placing the Pinhole panel directly on the camera mount (though,
there were a lot of light leak — still, we can see pretty wide image !)
To compare this image to the photo of 35mm image above,
how it IS wide is clearly visible. (= This is the big advantage.)
I promised to Antonio, I’ll make a Pinhole adapter for his a7
camera. (In practice, I’ll just make a hole on his body cap.) 🙂
And I might buy SONY. 😀
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