MF Adapted Lens Image Samples - Post Your Best!

it's a very nice lens...my shots today did not do it justice. I took a shot that I will never show (of my lamp...had no idea how much dust was on it) and it's incredibly sharp...

Permagrin wrote in post #7442495
Picked up the nikon 180 ais ed today. It was half raining most of the day so I just took some quick landscapes with it. It's huge for a mf lens...72mm filter size (all my other mf lenses have 52mm filters).

I seem to recall there was a time when Nikon designed all their lenses up to 200mm to have 52mm filter rings. The 105 I just bought comes, I think, from that era.

But there are some realities to be observed. The Zeiss Jena Sonnar 180/2.8 uses an 86mm filter. Of course, at f/2.8, the front element must be at least 65mm in diameter. I need to get that lens mounted on the camera and make some images.

Meanwhile, the fixit roll I've been on since the camera show yesterday kept going, and I finally disassembled and properly lubed the Jupiter 85/2. It now focuses without unscrewing itself off the camera, and the preset ring is now loose so that it doesn't carry the aperture ring with it. Now, if I can just figure out how to make a sharp image with that lens. The next lens one puts on the camera after the Nikkor 105 has a tough act to follow.

So, how to you make those MF lenses work on your Nikons? I was worried that I would have to share the 105 with my wife, but no, it won't work on her D100. It will stop down if I press the button, but I can't make it stay stopped down to take the picture. I already knew the meter would not work. Silly--I get full use from the lens, and she has to shoot wide open and meter externally.

Rick "who resisted the temptation to buy a Tamron Adaptall 300/2.8 yesterday" Denney

The D300 and D700 (& D3, D3x) have a new feature that allows the proper metering with the old lenses. They can be used essentially like any other lens (in M or Av) just using manual focusing.

And nice buy on that 105. I own that and like it a lot.

with the nikkor 55 3.5 micro at 3.5

Regardless of what lens or body that was shot with Permie, it's BEAUTIFUL! [Check out that funky bokeh in the bottom right though ]

yeah, I've noticed with these older lenses that bokeh can have some weird oof highlights.

I'm usually pretty shy about sharing my photos, but here's one I took with a Takumar 70-200 for a Pentax adapted to my XT. Film grain was added in.

some examples of the nikon 180 2.8 ais ed with 100% crops. Not great shots but I hope instructive samples of what it's capable of. The exif is in tact.

these shots (and the ones in the last post) aren't processed...just cropped and saved to jpeg in lightroom with the auto sharpening turned back to 0.

and one last with the nikon 55 f3.5 micro with the 1:1 tube on it.

binlerne wrote in post #7443252
I'm usually pretty shy about sharing my photos, but here's one I took with a Takumar 70-200 for a Pentax adapted to my XT. Film grain was added in.
http://jerrin.com …mId=296&g2_seri​alNumber=2

nice. I like the processing too.

Permagrin wrote in post #7442782
The D300 and D700 (& D3, D3x) have a new feature that allows the proper metering with the old lenses. They can be used essentially like any other lens (in M or Av) just using manual focusing.

That's bad news. My wife is already drawn to the D700, and I'm to stave off that inevitability a couple of years, so that the price will go down (as I did with the 5D).

Rick "she likes the big LCD--sigh" Denney

Permagrin wrote in post #7443574
and one last with the nikon 55 f3.5 micro with the 1:1 tube on it.

I have always admired the 55 Micro-Nikkor, and it really does have legendary status. I'm not sure it's any sharper than the Canon Compact Macro (which is quite under-rated), but I'm always on the lookout for one in my (ridiculous) price range. There were several at the camera show, but they had not be used for grenade-throwing practice and were therefore too expensive.

Rick "wondering if the targeted copy work is the reason for the funky foreground bokeh" Denney

I just picked up a Nikon Ai 105 2.5 four hours ago. A lovely little portrait lens. Here's the second photo I took with it. It's shot raw.

Zero pp, no cropping.

Carl Zeiss Sonnar 135/2.8 @ 2.8 on 40D @ ISO1600:

Carl Zeiss Planar 50/1.4 @ 1.4 on 40D @ ISO1600: