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Subject: [OM] (OT) Playing at 21mm
From: Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 13:16:36 -0400
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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