Thanks Midorikawa, I was thinking along those lines. I wanted a 2nd opinion to make sure I wasn't missing anything. This lens is coming off a broken camera, and because we couldn't figure out what was wrong with the camera I wanted to make sure it was normal vs it being part of the problem the camera was having. If that makes sense, I'll experiment see what I come up with. I appreciate the help.
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Sure thing. It takes a really good eye to be able to expose right with no light metering, but it can be done, and when done right, they come out amazing.
For example: linky linky. <---this was with my Nikkor-H 28mm lens from 1959. Dark, but that was intentional. This is the main corridor of a school built in 1903 just north of here, and since abandoned. I got permission from the property owner to be there. :-)Coworker: Distro of choice?
Me: Gentoo.
Coworker: Ahh. A Masochist. I thought so.
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Ooooooooooooooooo wow, took a look at the rest of your site. Amazing stuff.
I'm dragging my friend out tomorrow for more practice, she is hating me because I'm forcing her to model too.I'm giving her bacon for it, no seriously she gets a BLT out of it. It's great when you can pay your friends in bacon.
I'm the 5th horsemen of the apocalypse. Bringer of giggly bouncy doom, they don't talk about me much.
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Quoth Andara Bledin View PostOoooh, nice. Abandoned schools are particularly disturbing, for some reason.Coworker: Distro of choice?
Me: Gentoo.
Coworker: Ahh. A Masochist. I thought so.
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Even with an ancient lens, the camera, even an ancient one like the D1x, will give you exposure info.
Shooting full manual is definitely an art, but it's not rocket science, nor is it brain surgery, especially if the camera has an LCD to review shots with.
If I shoot full manual, I choose the aperture I want, then adjust shutter speed as needed.
Even my last film SLR, a $70 Pentax, had a light meter built in. That thing was a massive pile of shit, but using the meter gave some properly exposed photos.
Midorikawa, that is a BEAUTIFUL photo! It's exposed perfectly, if you ask me. One of my hobbies is the good old "urban exploration", i.e. exploring old/abandoned/closed buildings.
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Actually, I talked to Nikon on this one. The new Nikons use communication with the CPU in the lens to determine light metering, rather than a sensor in the pentaprism/pentamirror like they did back when this lens was made. Most websites say the lens is not compatible with my camera, and I suppose it's technically not, but it still shoots photos beautifully. I don't have any light metering because in 1959, there were no integrated circuits, and definitely not any circuits small enough to fit in the lens of a camera.
This is the lens I used to shoot the image:
Because of this, the aperture and focal length show as N/A in the EXIF information in the shot. See for yourself.Coworker: Distro of choice?
Me: Gentoo.
Coworker: Ahh. A Masochist. I thought so.
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The lenses work! ow I hurt. Decided to test on the side of a mountain.
I'm thrilled, I have a vintage plane and car show coming up in may.Now I just need to practice getting to know the settings before then so I can set up quickly and I should be good. Yay....Now I'm going to go curl up somewhere and whimper.
I'm the 5th horsemen of the apocalypse. Bringer of giggly bouncy doom, they don't talk about me much.
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Quoth Midorikawa View PostMost websites say the lens is not compatible with my camera, and I suppose it's technically not, but it still shoots photos beautifully.
If it's a digital SLR, you can really experiment with full manual settings without wasting film. Just keep adjusting until it looks right - and most SLR's made in the past 30+ years (both film and digital) have exposure meters built in anyway.
That lens is definitely older than me, but hell, it's physically compatible, that's all that matters at this point.
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I adjusted until it looked right, I got some neat shots that way anyway. I prefer mad science photography you end up with interesting things that way.
So we have a mad scientist, and a Nikon ninja, Bean what would you like to be? We could start fighting crimeI'm the 5th horsemen of the apocalypse. Bringer of giggly bouncy doom, they don't talk about me much.
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