50 Years Ago: The World in 1962 - In Focus - The Atlantic. This is Aberdeen Harbour in Hong Kong, which was one of the main inspirations behind Blackwater Port in THE RAZOR GATE, factfinders. (via @cstross)
Morgan is teething, so out we went for a two hour walk at the crack of dawn. There were ducks. Hello, ducks. Still, I seem to be a bit better, even dog-tired, at getting the focus right on this old 55mm f1.4 Chinon.
Where else’re you going to go when winter bids farewell?
Morning Minecraft.
“11-year-old Joey, who killed his first deer when he was seven, lives in Kentucky with his family.” - Where Children Sleep: James Mollison’s Photographs. It was very hard to choose one to use for linkage because there are all sorts interesting or sad for all sorts of reasons. You should go and look. (via @brainpicker)
Aidan on the beach last month. Pic via iPhone, contrasty enfaffening via laptop. Click here to make with the bigness.
Test shot, Jupiter 37-A 135mm/f3.5 Soviet-era manual lens. Aperture wide open. I need to be tighter on my focus control, but just lookit that 12-bladed aperture smooth bokeh there.
Future Sister-In-Law’s 50th birthday at the weekend, and I was rousted into doing some photo work. Used my newly acquired 55mm f1.4 Olde Manual Chinon lens since we were going to be indoors and I don’t like flash. Now I have to burn 70 images onto DVD. :(
Future Wife and Young Mr Morgan.
Very busy night for some.
(As almost always, click to embiggen.)
Test shot, Carl Zeiss Jena 50mm/2.8 Tessar wide open and ISO 1600. Future Brother-In-Law, who was round visiting when the postman brought the lens.
Test Shots
(clicking makes with the embiggening)
Chinon 55mm f1.4, old, old, incredibly old M42 manual lens. Both shot at f1.4, the can slightly overexposed (in original; fixx0red now) through my own fault. Thoughts: detail on focal plane is crisp, edge contrast chroma is minimal, bokeh is surprisingly smooth. Don’t know how the latter will fare on single light points, though; don’t know how many blades the aperture has. Also: gives camera a satisfying heft again (since standard kit lens is very light and the body weighs less than my old Nikon).
Still, for (edit; stupid memory) sixty-five quid, that’s a damn bargain.
