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Pillar of the Community
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I was out of town and stopped by a 2nd hand store that had lots of junk and some antique stuff and found a bag in the middle of some old brownie cameras and what not. So I picked it up and fond a camera with 4 lenses and a camera for $10.95...Being the sucker I am for old lenses I bought it... I never realized what Ray had told me some years ago when I started coin shooting...that you will end up with a ton of lenses figuring out how they work how they are designed, what they are designed for....any way teh lenses are the C/Y mount so I had to order an adapter so I could mount them and I also bought a cheap EOS extention ring set for like 13 bucks so I could play with them and see if they could be used.... the lenses were 28mm,35mm,50mm and 85mm's...the 85 seams best to start with so I finally found a combination to get a shot off..lets see what you think of my grab bag lenses...2 different coins, one shiny and one real toned     I still have alot to work on lighting and cropping..none of the lenses are a macro type, which is why I bought the rings....let me know what you think of the pic quality, sharpness and color. thanks G |
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Pillar of the Community
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1879 needs some help with lighting and contrast but I love the 1884 shots.
Edited by rmpsrpms
08/19/2014 10:32 am
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Pillar of the Community
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I'll have to retrieve my photo bucket account.. but for now, I took some more pics..... the new lens is an old contex lens, a Carl Zeiss Sonnar 85mm F/2.8 for these pictures,, I also got with the bag, another Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm F/1.7 and a Kiron 70-150mm macro f/4 lens and a Kiron Kino precision 28mm f/2 the 85mm seems bes even though its not a macro lens...here are some pics..  same coin and different lighting its hard for a pl/dmpl coin to get right..   and some toned silver. and a copper pennie from 1935  Still like to know your thoughts on the quallity and shapness of the lens..... thanks.. |
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Pillar of the Community
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These look good, but can't really tell sharpness at this size. You need to show 100% crops to compare sharpness.
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Bedrock of the Community
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 But I like the tonal range! |
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Pillar of the Community
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One of the this I like about the Sonar 85mm is that it captures the coins color as it is in hand, even though I have a tuff time with the lighting... I tried to learn something about the 100% crop that Ray mentioned I have never done it before so heres a go... I used the canons DPP program and selected tools/trimming.. set aspect ration to 1:1 then, boxed out my coin and hit OK. Then I used my Irfanview to resize it so it would be under the 100kb for posting...IS THIS CORRECT? heres the shots..   Am I making any headway? thanks G |
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Pillar of the Community
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I still have to resize them well under 800x probably around 550x until I can figure out my photobucket account...
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Pillar of the Community
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Gene...the 100% crop I was referring to is down to individual pixel level (detail crop), not 1:1 aspect ratio of the whole image...Ray
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By cropping I think what is meant, is having only the coin in the photo with little or no background showing, like the last image above and some of the Morgans. This site has an image optimizer that and get your photos under 100kb for posting. I usually crop it first. Any basic program can do that: Preview on a Mac, iPhoto, etc... The photos look pretty decent
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08/22/2014 12:36 pm
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