Shooting With Vintage Lenses

[RallyValley]

Today I received an adaptor to let me use some lenses my dad gave me a while ago. My dad brought them in around 1980 - before he even met my mum - when he had a passion for photography. They are all in pristine condition and served him faithfully until he gave up taking photos when my brother and I hit our teens and became camera shy.

It was a bit of a challenge as there was no interaction at all between the lens and camera - the aperture is set manually on the lens, it was full manual focus and the exposure meter was not working so it was a mixture of guesswork & trial and error while playing with shutter speeds and ISO.

These were all taken with a Tamron Adaptall-2 70-210mm f/3.4-4 MACRO with a 2xTC

[*kirty*]

I like them! They feel 'warm'. :)

[Are You Serious Jo]

I've got an old manual 50 that I love, if you go here http://www.flickr.com/photos/81363891@N04/ and look in animals I have a few up that I used the 50 for (the fog shots). I really love it for animal portraits (as long as they aren't moving fast).

[cruzzi]

The advantage of having nikons is they don't changed their lens mounts.

I can use the lens' from my F801S & F90x on my 70D.

Your first shot is not bad.The eye is sharp, that's good

The others are a little soft.

But that could be the settings rather than the lens'

edit.

50 mm is supposed to be the closest a camera reproduces as to what the eye sees.

If that makes sense.

Anyhow I know what I mean.

Edited February 7, 2013 by cruzzi