{"id":58,"date":"2015-07-11T21:45:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T01:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nostorynorm.com\/blog\/?p=58"},"modified":"2019-03-13T12:26:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T16:26:01","slug":"strange-bedfellows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nostorynorm.com\/blog\/strange-bedfellows\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Bedfellows"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found my old 35mm film SLR, a Canon FTb. I haven’t used it in 25 years or more, though it still seems to work. I thought I might try selling it and buy a new lens for my digital camera but it turns out not to be very rare or valuable, so I’m not gonna get much for it. Then I found out there’s an adapter to mount the old Canon FD lens on my modern digital camera. So I got a hold of that, cleaned up the old lens and went out for a walk. Here’s some of the shots…
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\nIt’s a 50mm f1.8, but on the digital camera, which has a smaller image sensor, its equivalent to a 100mm lens on a full frame camera. There’s no auto focus mode for this lens, so I had to manually focus these shots. I also had to set the aperture manually, but I like to shoot aperture priority anyway, so I’m used to that. In fact I rather like having the aperture ring on the lens barrel, something I’ve always missed on the digital cameras I’ve used. All these shots are hand held (no tripod).<\/p>\n

These pics are processed from raw files. Post-processing was limited to adjustments for white balance and ETTR, and in a few cases, tilt adjustment (I still can’t manage to consistently hold a camera level it seems), other than that no cropping. I did not apply any sharpening, as I wanted to see how the lens performs. Overall, I’m pretty pleased with it.<\/p>\n

I down-scaled the images for the blog post, but the full size jpegs will be on Flickr, here: https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wwnorm\/sets\/72157655352370348<\/a><\/p>\n

The old Canon was my first ‘serious’ camera and I took a lot of pictures with this lens, back in the day. I only shot black and white with it then, but now I know it can handle color too, cool! So I end up with a ‘new’ lens after-all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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