Not yet big enough for cowboy boots: only about 1 inch long...

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Not yet big enough for cowboy boots

Oct 14, 2012 12:58:08 #

HOT Texas Loc: From the Heart of Texas

only about 1 inch long

Oct 14, 2012 13:34:46 #

Nikonian72 Loc: Chico CA

Sony A100 camera at ISO 200, with 50-mm lens, 1/160-sec at f/1.7.

Your focus looks tack sharp. The enlargement reveals just how narrow is your DoF at f/1.7. A higher ISO, or more light on your subject is needed to decrease your aperture, to increase your DoF.

Oct 14, 2012 14:14:21 #

HOT Texas Loc: From the Heart of Texas

Thanks, you can't go by f stop on a manual focus lens, the lens is a manual focus Minolta MD 50mm 1.7 but reversed on m42 mount extension tubes @ f16 The camera will not read the f stop.

this is a old camera with a higher ISO will have lots of noise. even with N/R on. you can reduce some of the noise with software but then it wouldn't be tack sharp like I like it.

Would love to have more light, but shot in the shade on a cloudy day thought it did just fine. And again I don't care for the crop.
:)

Oct 14, 2012 15:38:49 #

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

Very Nice!

Oct 14, 2012 15:44:02 #

HOT Texas Loc: From the Heart of Texas

Blurryeyed wrote:

Very Nice!

Thanks Much!!!!

Oct 14, 2012 21:21:38 #

Nikonian72 Loc: Chico CA

HOT Texas wrote:

Thanks, you can't go by f/stop on a manual focus lens, the lens is a manual focus Minolta MD 50mm f/1.7, but reversed on m42 mount extension tubes @ f/16. The camera will not read the f/stop.

ALL of the information i know about your image was recorded in your Exif, via communication between your camera and lens. That is impossible with a reverse-mounted lens. The evidence says your camera recorded lens information.

Oct 15, 2012 07:31:51 #