I finally got around to visiting the George Washington Masonic temple in Alexandria – it’s a shame that I haven’t been able to get over there, since I work close by – but DC traffic is hard to deal with on any given day. I visited on Martin Luther King Day – since it’s a [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Olympus OM mount lens on Sony A700 – Part II: George Washington Masonic Temple with a Zuiko 35-70mm f/4
Posted in 3rd party lenses, Bower α Adapter, Digital SLR, Manual Lenses, Photography, Sony Alpha 700, Sony α, Zoom, Zuiko, Zuiko on Alpha, tagged Sony Alpha 700, GW Masonic Temple, Washington, National Treasure, Nicholas Cage, Olympus Manual lens on January 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Olympus OM mount lens on Sony A700 – Part I – Zuiko lenses on Sony Alpha series cameras
Posted in 3rd party lenses, Bower α Adapter, Digital SLR, Manual Lenses, Photography, Sony Alpha 700, Sony α, Zuiko, Zuiko on Alpha, tagged Bower α Adapter, Zuiko, Olympus Manual lens, OM on Sony Alpha, DP Forum on January 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A while ago, I had written about a Bower made Minolta AF to OM adapter that I was able to use on my Minolta 800si/Sony Alpha 700 to mount Zuiko and other 3rd party OM mount lenses.
The Bower adapter is actually a weak teleconverter since it has a glass element that permits infinity focus [...]
Sigma 24mm f/2.8 on Sony A700
Posted in 3rd party lenses, Digital SLR, Minolta AF Mount, Photography, Sony Alpha 700, Sony α, tagged Sigma 24mm super-wide lens, third party lens, Westminster MD, Bohrer Park in Gaithersburg on January 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In an earlier post discussing the DSLR crop factor, I had mentioned that if you really need to shoot really-wide angles, just use your film camera – because ultra wide-angle PRIME lenses (24mm equivalent or better) for DSLRs are still prohibitively expensive. The Kit zoom lens that Sony bundles (18-70mm) and the other lenses [...]
Sony Alpha 700: Macrophotography with Bellows and Hansa 50mm f/3.5
Posted in 3rd party lenses, Digital SLR, Macrophotography, Manual Lenses, Photography, Sony Alpha 700, Spiratone, T-mount on Alpha, tagged 75mm Spiratone Flat field lens, Bellows, Cheap Macrophotography, Hansa 50mm f/3.5, Macro, Macrobel, Macrotar, Macrotel, Spiratone Bellowscope, T-mount on January 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A few weeks ago, I found this vintage Hansa 50mm f3.5 on eBay at a very reasonable price. It was new in the box, and the seller told me that it was an enlarger lens and that I’d have to find some kind of step-up adapter to get it to fit on M42 Pentax thread [...]
