2020年5月17日日曜日

Wide angle lens today




I have been advocated only on standard focal length lenses between 45mm and 50mm these days, I took Fujinon 28mm/3.5 for taking a walk this morning. As 42mm threaded mounting flange it has, K&F mounting adapter is invited for Sony E-mount. Also I'm keeping Sonner 85mm/2.8 with the same thread screw mount lens.
SONY Alpha 7-Ⅲ is an indispensable mother digital imaging format at  all, I'll continue enjoying on this marvelous machinery for the time being.

2020年5月15日金曜日

Mikohata beneficial site in Asago-City






This place has been left untouched till few years ago, but now all the piled and beautiful castle like beneficial site are destroyed completely leaving some processing factories are partially lower workplace.
It's a matter for regret that the people in the village government office realized the importance of  this kind of legacy, just worth leaving. The residence of the foreign engineer is cared for exhibition, no meaning for apology of complete destruction. Large parking place and well painted Ore transport truck was put outside there, it seemed to have been attached intentionally, it does not  suit, it scatters the smell of tourist inviting strategy, childish and nuisance at all.
On the way back with making detour, dropped I an inn to Mikata Shrine, no visitor was there as usual.

Northern Osaka, Kameoka to Kyoto Saga Tenryuji








From Northern Osaka through Kameoka to Arashiyama was the way to shoot photos yesterday. It was fine and warm like a Summer day, light source was good enough. Because the Emergency Declaration would be stopped very soon, tomorrow? It was an indispensable opportunity never to experience if I loose. All the visiting places would be very crowded avoiding our periodical rainy season.
The first was Anao-ji, second was Horin-ji Temple near Togetsu-Bridge and the third was Saga-Tenryu-ji.
Also, today, I would go out for the same purpose.

2020年5月14日木曜日

Along with Hatsuka-River



Along with Hatsuka river I went up to North yesterday with visiting several shrines and temples, that supplies Sengari Water Source. Very few traffic and pedestrian were there even in the country side. Light source for photo shooting was enough except an incredible mistaking that I left a battery for Alpha 7 behind on the charger, so all the photos yesterday was on Alpha 6400 APSC format.

2020年5月12日火曜日

Kyuuanji-Temple today





The target today for photo shooting was Kyuuanji-Temple at Fushio-cho Ikeda-city. Light source was enough to get good transparencies.
Leitz M-Tele-Elmar 135/4, MD Macro-Rokkor 100/4, Rokkor 45/2.8 and MD Zoom-Rokkor 35-70/3.5 were accompanied with SONY Alpha 7-Ⅲ Digital format camera.
Only a aged couple was there, no other visitors were recognized at all. Because the cafeteria is closed, the gate of the temple should be closed, so everyone thinks. I believe in God, protecting me from external irritations.

2020年5月11日月曜日

Nishinomiya Taisha-cho Hirota-Shrine





I visited Hirota Shrine at Nishinomiya Taisha-cho today. Fine day supplied good enough lighting source for photograph shooting.  As Minolta MD Zoom 35-70mm/3.5 lens has cleaned and prepared for testing, I could not help doing the behavior, also long deserted MD Macro-Rokkor 100mm/4 was the same situation.
The second group lens of MD Zoom had apparent a-spherical surface curvature in the rear, it was recognized while cleaning. Strictly speaking, this is not a zoom lens but a vari-focal lens, because focusing step should be done in every change of focal length, every change of picture angel.
Careful and polite maintenance procedure should be done periodically to clean every surface to establish transparency, light cloudy is the worst phenomena to reduce the picture quality, especially the cloudy exist in the Balsam layer is fatal for the lens itself.

2020年5月10日日曜日

Minolta Uniomat 45mm/2.8 on SONY E-mount



Old lens Minolta Rokkor 45mm/2.8 was transplanted on SONY E-mount. The original camera is Minolta Uniomat-Ⅱ Range finder produced over 50 years ago, 1960. As a matter for regret, lens shutter construction does not have Iris leaves independently, eye closing is done by shutter blade. So, it's very inconvenient for my use, removing shutter construction thoroughly and make use of an original Iris system. Deeper consideration led me some conclusion, following the original concept on iris setting, fixation of shutter cocking shaft at some adequate angular position make it possible to control iris closing rate by rotating controlling inner ring.
Consequently, this small 45mm standard lens is applicable on SONY digital format, and it will show remarkable result as a Triplet old lens.