December 26 2009

These first two were shot with a very beat up old 50mm f/1.4 non-AI lens, you can see the haze it gives in the second picture of Tim under the Christmas tree. It is sad to see a lens in such an abused state -- the indexing tab was removed and the aperture ring cut in an attempt to convert it to AI, but it was not well executed. It also has filter ring damage and a hard-to-turn focus ring, plus the haze.

Despite all that, as you can see it can make nice photographs.





I now have an operatable Zenit with a 16mm fisheye lens I am excited to try out!