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I just bought a pretty cheap Albinar 28mm f/2.8 macro lens for the XD-11 and gave it a test drive today.
Unfortunately after I finished the roll I realized I had the ISO on the camera set incorrectly. The ISO of the film was 160 and I had it set to 125. It wasn't a disaster, but all the photos were slightly overexposed so I corrected them in Photoshop.
The depth of field is pretty shallow as well which led to some cool flower shots that almost look like paintings.
Take a look.
Yes, I live in Massachusetts and have a neighbor with cactus planted in their front yard. Surprisingly I think it's actually alive and survived our winter.
I loved the contrast in this photo.
These blossoms are clearly a bit past their prime, but this was the sharpest of the pictures I took of them. It was windy today so sometimes I just snapped and hoped the focus was good.
I took all of the flower shots with the lens wide open at f/2.8 and the effect in some is pretty cool; they almost look like paintings.
I got my first roll back from the new Hi-Matic. I was a bit worried that a camera that old would have light leaks but that's not the case. Apparently it was so lightly used that even that wasn't a concern.
I took a couple of shots in the backyard:
And since Fluffy is a monochromatic cat, I desaturated and cropped one of the bed shots.
Just a few...This is the film that was in the Minolta when I got it. These shots are mine but it had some pictures on it that my father-in-law took that were at least five or six years old. I'm amazed the film developed as well as it did.
Fluffy
As I mentioned a while back, I borrowed an old Minolta SLR and a couple of lenses from my father in law and have sporadically been taking pictures.
Here's the camera:
So far I've focused on the prime lens, which is an MD Rokkor-X 50mm f/1.4. The one thing that jumped out as being different than my Lumix was the control over depth of field. The 50mm is so sharp that wide open I'd be the DOF is only a few inches. Here are a few examples
This a picture of the leftovers I had after a bunch of us met up with Reesie last Friday for dinner at Sichuan Gourmet in Framingham. One of the best and spiciest dinners I've ever had. Notice how the sharpest part of the photo is the dark beef with the sauce. The rice in front of it is not as sharp and the vegetables towards the back are starting to blur into the background.
The reverse is true as I focused on the back of the plate. nice sharp green beans and bok choy, blurry meat and rice.
Another example. The left side of the glass is in sharp focus, the right isn't. Not to self: Clear glass works well with backlit shots...other stuff not so much.
And one last picture off of our registry. We (and by we I mean Pam) just got this for Christmas from her family.
Here are the first photos I took with the Minolta film camera. The film was old, which I think probably added to the graininess a bit.
The entire gallery is here
The fence in the backyard:
Fluffy:
