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Re: [OM] (OT) Playing at 21mm

Subject: Re: [OM] (OT) Playing at 21mm
From: John Hermanson <omtech1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 08:04:00 -0400
A wealth of great subjects there Bob.  Nice work.
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Bob Whitmire wrote:
> Went out this morning with the (relatively) new Zeiss 21mm 2.8. Found  
> an old Landing Craft Resupply Cargo (LARC) at Port Clyde and took a  
> couple of snaps. One color, one black and white. In the color shot,  
> you can gauge the scale of the ship by the size of the pilot house at  
> the stern, and by the fact the tires (tyres) are better than six feet  
> tall. The torpedo shaped gizmo in the foreground, which I cannot  
> identify, is _very_ long, giving a good glimpse at how the lens  
> handles that whole near-far thing. I rather like the black and white  
> conversion as a shot unto itself, and again think the lens did a  
> smashing job.
> 
> http://www.bwp33.com/page15/page15.html
> 
> For those interested in such things, it's a manual lens, Nykon mount,  
> built for full frame. The D3 lets me dial in the maximum aperture and  
> focal length and thus matrix metering is available. And while it's  
> manual focus, the little dot-thingie in the viewfinder shows itself  
> when focus is achieved at the designated autofocus spot in the  
> viewfinder. I _really_ like this lens, but it's limitations are as yet  
> unknown to me. FWIW, Zeiss included the little metal prong on the  
> aperture ring so I could use this lens on my old Nykon Photomic FTN  
> finder, if I still had the body and finder. <g> (Nykon & Pentax mounts  
> currently available, Canyon mount due out soon, mid-summer if I recall.)
> 
> --Bob Whitmire
> www.bwp33.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
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