[Leica] [IMG] PESO - MC Rokkor etc with thanks to Steve Barbour and others

[Philippe Amard]

Nice bokeh indeed.

Just wondering what type of film is that on the window sill? Do you shoot
120 film too?

Amities
Philippe


2016-10-10 22:47 GMT+02:00 Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com>:

> A few days ago I posted a comment about wanting to use my f1.4 MC Rokkor
> (Minolta SRT-101) lens with my Ms. Steve and others pointed me to the
> Fotodiox
> MC/MD to M adapter...So I got one!
>
> For a joke (well may be not too much of a joke) I strapped it on to my Fuji
> X-Pro1 and this is the result:
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/PeterDzwig/PESO2011/
> ForJimMC-Rokkor_Fuji-1.jpg.html>
>
> f1.4 MC Rokkor + Fotodiox MC to M converter plus Fuji M to Fuji mount on
> the X-Pro1.
>  Exposure about 1/55th at f2.8 (the metadata shows 1/55 at F1.0 - but it
> ain't so).
>
> Detail rendition is quite good on this eclectic shot with a smooth picture
> frame
> (containing a picture of Stirling Moss in a DBR3); the ornately carved
> capital
> of a 19th(?)C Indian pillar, now inverted and re-modelled as a candle
> holder!; a
> bunch of empty 12-bore cartridges (don't ask); the broken base of a Roman
> 1st(?)C pot from Austria; a late 20thC marquetry clock and finally at the
> extreme right the edge of a model Jaguar XK120. The point is that it
> renders the
> varying textures and detail well; remarkably so given that its on a modern
> digital camera! oh, and there's bokeh out the window!
>
> :-)
>
> Many thanks Steve and all the others who suggested it.
>
> Thanks for taking the time to look.
>
> Peter Dzwig
>
>
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