[Leica] IMGs: using 120mm 2.8

[Jim Nichols]

Beautiful color and detail, Douglas.

I use my Pentax 135/3.5 with the Fuji X-T2 from time to time for 
butterflies.  The lens is very sharp and the color is good, but the lack 
of close focusing can be a handicap.  I have used extension tubes with 
some success, but that provides very limited focusing range.  For 
distances such as you are using, these lenses can be quite useful.  I do 
recall using the 135 for skydivers, with some success.  It never hurts 
to explore the older lenses.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 4/25/2018 12:44 PM, Douglas Barry wrote:
> Don't really use longer lenses on my cameras, but tried out one of my 
> legacy lenses - a Pentax 120/2.8 - on the Sony A7ii. Went down to the 
> old coal harbour within the main arms of Dun Laoghaire harbour which 
> is about one kilometre from my house, The coal harbour is home to 
> fishing boats now and has a couple of boatyards where boats are 
> stored, repaired, and even bought and sold.
>
> To start here's one of a guy working in the boatyard.
>
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Dun+Laoghaire/DL+24042018+Spraying+off+the+spray.jpg.html 
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>
> Here's the detail. Both can be seen large, with the detail one only a 
> tiny bit reduced fom the way it comes out of the camera.
>
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Dun+Laoghaire/DL+24042018+Spraying+off+the+spray+Detail.jpg.html 
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>
> Douglas
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