The Kitstar 200mm is a lens that I acquired very cheaply on Ebay last year – it was an impulse purchase, really, since I knew very little about the lens other than it had a OM mount, and I was intrigued by its unusual maximum aperture. My intention was to compare it with my [...]
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OM mount Kitstar 200mm f/3.3 on the Sony Alpha 700
Posted in 3rd party lenses, Bower α Adapter, Digital SLR, Manual Lenses, Photography, Sony Alpha 700, Sony α, Telephoto, tagged Kits Camera, Kitstar, Olympus, OM mount, Ritz Camera, Woodland on April 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sony Alpha 700 Macrophotography – II: D.O. Industries 135mm f/4.5 on Spiratone Bellowscope
Posted in 3rd party lenses, Bellows, Digital SLR, Macrophotography, Manual Lenses, Photography, Sony Alpha 700, Spiratone, T-mount on Alpha, Telephoto, tagged A700, Bellows, Bellowscope, David Goldstein, DO Industries, Fuji, Gold, Jewelry, Macro, NAVITAR, Sony Alpha, Spirarone on February 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Anyone ever hear of D.O. Industries? I had never come across any lenses from them until I suddenly ran into this little beauty on EBay, going really cheap. It seemed to be an enlarger lens, but it had what appeared to be a T-mount type threaded mount. A quick email ( an even quicker [...]
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 GW Masonic Temple, National Treasure, Nicholas Cage, Olympus Manual lens, Sony Alpha 700, Washington on January 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
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, DP Forum, Olympus Manual lens, OM on Sony Alpha, Zuiko 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 [...]
