Fast Glass....

Fast Glass

EOS Digital Rebel / EF 35mm 2.0
f-22 / 1 sec. / 100 ISO
f-22 / 3.2 sec. / 100 ISO

Shot RAW and processed in DPP. No fancy processing.
The setup for the shot was both cameras on a turntable. A long 1-3.2 second exposure was made as the turntable was moved back and forth to give the background the feel of high speed. I also find a longer exposure gives a nicer rendering of the glass in the lens. Although I did get the look I was aiming for, it is not as obvious or dramatic as I had hoped for. Perhaps the background needs to have more variation than what I was using.

The camera is the venerable Minolta SRT 101, a great camera that was probably Minolta's best seller ever. The lens is Minolta's fastest! Minolta made the 58mm lens when others made 50mm's. One big advantage of 58mm is that it is exactly the same perspective as the human eye. If you have one eye looking through the viewfinder and the other open they will see the same. The 58mm 1.2 was made in 1969 when high speed films were ASA 400 and very grainy!, so the super fast glass meant a lot more back then than it does today with out great high speed films.

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All I have to say is... cool! Neat idea putting them on a turntable...something I would never have thought to do.

nicely done! i like the landscape feel of it. great color

Very creative- cool effect! Do you ever put some film in the Minolta and take some shots for old times sake?

That's a really neat idea to have the subject and the taking camera on a turntable. It sure accomplishes the object of smearing the background. The lower shot has the better exposure in my opinion. The upper did not look bad at all, but in comparison with the lower, the lower wins hands down.

I'm not sure what that is in the lower left extreme corner, but I assume it's the turntable. If so, then I would suggest either a different color for the turntable or a smaller turntable, because as it is, it's mysterious. On the other hand, I feel that it might have been better to have a larger turntable in order to get more of the camera into the frame.