Lens adaptation chronicles

Excellent image. Nice colors and sharp subject.
Thanks for sharing,
barondla

further ad adapttions. Recently I noticed an ad for a "Nkon 2x extender for Novoflex" and gambled that it had the genuine (weird) Novoflex bayonets in both ends and not any fixed Nikon parts. Indeed, there was a Novoflex to NF adapter on one end. By now this interesting quality destroyer has been mounted behind my three element Noflexar-T waiting for the right motive and light.

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Any results yet?
Thanks,
barondla

Results, yes, but nothing to brag about,. the "seeing" as astronomers call it was terrible, and as usual the spotmetering point had moved, so my snaps of the moon were unusable-

Whwn the birds decide that spring has arrived for good and sit quietly on a suitable tree branch in my garden I will try once more.

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Hi,

As of late, I have a Fujifilm GFX-100 which replaces my old Pentax 645D. And, it is quite common for GFX owners to adapt all sorts of other medium format lenses. In my case, P645 and P67 ones. Right now, in manual focus mode only but there is an auto focus P645 adapter coming later this year.

As such, I have only one GF lens, a 45/2.8, which happens to correspond to the weakest lens in the P645 system.

This is a shot of a gourd my wife decorated shot with the GFX 100 and P645 120/4 lens.

Stan

as usual I am adding to my own theme of expanding my adapted glass library.

This time not with an ancient manual wonder to support my neoluddite cravings to avoid autofocus and autoaperture, but with a non-pedigree plebeian lump on my narrow frame Leitz auto thing.

I was growing tired of swapping 50 and 90mm M-.mount lenses onto the Lmount CL and thought a modest zoom would complement the excellent 11 to something wide zoom . So I found a Lumix 20-60 and tried it on my usual distant architectural test subject, Not as much detail as I used to get with much longer lenses and higher resolution sensors, but quite acceptable. Comparison with an equally big, but heavier 60mm lump (an S-planar with C/Y to L adapter) did not give more detail, but very slightly more contrast. Conclusion; Luddite style optics do not give convincingly better pictures (even if 1:10 is what the S-Planar is made for, it does focus to infinity).

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A sunday morning stroll along the piers in front of Oslo city hall gave entirely satisfactory snaps of the 800year old city protecting castle.Even using the cheap 20-60 glass but sending the raw-file through the photoshop washing machine helped rectify the cameras too optimistic light metering by adjjusting levels drastically, No solution to enclosing a copy here though since the address of the corresponding Jpg file is on my archival E- disk and I doubt that this will transe\fer anything to be uploaded. So one will need to accept that even a non Leitz L-mount can record worthwhile snaps

I have now discovered the "arrow method" of enclosing pictures, but did not follow the new guidelines of how to get better quality.

Image looks fine. Definitely a worthwhile snap. The castle is a fabulous subject. We don't have 800 year old buildings in the USA.
You can have a bigger thumbnail photo. When you click the arrow upload symbol, notice there is a box that shows percentage uploaded. To the right of the percentage, there is tiny box icon depicting multiple sizes. Just click it and your image will appear without viewers have to open the link.

Enjoying your adaption chronicles.
Thanks for sharing,
barondla