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Re: [OM] Ooooh, I'm so Dizzzzzy

Subject: Re: [OM] Ooooh, I'm so Dizzzzzy
From: ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 12:01:54 +0100
That is rather attractive, Moose, very 3-D.

Chris

> On 14 Aug 2017, at 06:45, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> You all know my penchant for odd, even weird imaging thingies. I've not been 
> a fan of normal centers with swirly outsides and bokeh. A few work for me . . 
> .
> 
> Yet, inadvertently, I am now able to make them. 
> <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=22271 
> <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=22271>>
> 
> Here's the rig that took the that shot. I could almost have put it in the 
> Visual Conundra gallery. :-) 
> <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=22269 
> <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=22269>>
> 
> If one want's swirly, there's the Petzval's, beautiful brass, annoying 
> Waterhouse stops, for a few hundred $$. Or there's the LensBaby Twist 60, for 
> $280, or an old Iron Curtain lens, for $60+.
> 
> Of course, all those are designed to cover FF, so on smaller sensors, much of 
> the effect is lost - for good or ill. :-)
> 
> I've been curious about the use of CCTV lenses. I see them promoted for 
> macro, which doesn't much interest me, but for normal focal range I've 
> wondered how "bad" they might be, and in what ways. Fotasy solved the 
> research/choice morass by offering a 25/1.4 C-Mount TV lens and C=>µ4/3 
> adapter package for $27, Prime shipping and no tax.
> 
> Turns out that wide open, it's a swirl monster, amount then adjustable by 
> aperture. In bright light, though, f1/4 is too bright. The rig above uses 
> most of a set of step-down rings to adapt a 72 mm ND8 filter (3-stop) to 30 
> mm filter thread on the lens. Cool looking, no? I do now have a NOS 30 mm 
> filter coming.
> 
> Still pondering what other things it might be good for. Doesn't focus very 
> close, but the Oly MCON-P02 should fix that.
> 
> Spinning Moose

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