Well today's plan to do some morning photography was cancelled waiting for a buyer to come get the Panasonic Team bike. But I spent the hot midday time updating my lens database. These are all the current manual focus lenses I use. All are pretty old except for the two modern Zeiss ones. Spent some time yesterday working my technique again with the Mamiya 645 200/2.8 on my Canon 5DSr. The resolving combination of these two is insane when you nail focus.



Spent some time yesterday working my technique again with the Mamiya 645 200/2.8 on my Canon 5DSr. The resolving combination of these two is insane when you nail focus.

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Now full size crop of the tower from the picture above. No post processing and according to google I was 2.41 miles away from the tower. Bear in mind I've got a heavy lens using a ballhead on the tripod. Not the sturdiest, plus it's over 90 degrees out while doing this test so heat distortion is a real thing. Aperture was set to 5.6 and focusing done via the viewfinder without using my magnifier.



Some of this old glass is just so stinkin' good! I did some further shots of the mountain tops using liveview to get critical focus spot on. When I nailed those you can even clearly see the fenceline posts at the top of the ridge on the peak, crazy! A cool clear morning would yield way better results even with no thermal distortion in the air.

Years ago I shot this scene using the Contax Zeiss 100/2.0. This is several images combined to make the pano. Full size you can easily see each individual on the slopes of the ski resort in the background. You can even tell what color clothes they were wearing. And the slopes are over 8 miles straight-line from where I shot this.