I love the washing machine shots! Have fun and share your images with us.
Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>* On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 2:47 AM Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > My new Irix 11/4 arrived today. I haven’t had a chance to do any serious > photography with it, but my one word review would be “fun”. > > A bit more detailed would be: > The build quality is impressive. I did get the higher end (metal rather > than plastic) version. The focus ring is nice and smooth. Unlike my old > Rokinon 8/3.5 this came with a hyperfocal guide. I had to calculate and > make my own for the Rokinon and that was critical for making the lens > usable. > > Note that this lens is manual focus. Wide open, hyperfocal gives you > something like 6 feet to infinity, I expect that most of the time I’ll just > set a focus range and not worry about focusing for specific shots. > > This lens has a lot of nice little features: > > It is weather sealed. > > There is a detent at infinity focus. If you’re out photographing anything > beyond about 10 feet away, you could just leave it here not worry about it. > > The focus guide is adjustable, If it’s not perfectly calibrated, you can > remove a cover, loosen a screw and set it properly. > > It has a focus lock. As I said, most of the time I’ll probably use the > hyperfocal guide and set it for the distance range I’ll be shooting, > depending on amount of light, and size of room, i.e. will I be > photographing dancers, or out in the big blue room. > > It will tell the camera, electronically, what the focal length is. It > being manual focus I was a bit startled when I powered on the camera and > didn’t get the screen to set the focal length. > > The good news is that it does have a filter holder. The less wonderful > news is that it is for a gel filter on the back of the lens. > > It does not have a manual aperture control ring. > > It has an integral lens hood. The lens cap seems to be pretty nice and it > clicks into place. > > Spending the money on it just because it was on sale may not have been the > wisest move fiscally, but I think it will prove to be one of the best > mistakes I’ve made in the past few weeks or months. > > A few quick snaps to play with the angle of view: > My washing machine, my miata and my office. I’m a few feet in, so the > section of the office in view is probably about 8x8 feet. > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72177720301223643 > > -- > Larry Colen > [email protected] > > > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
