03-22-2011, 12:13 AM
While I have a Canon DSLR, the first SLR I used, and which I still have in good working condition, is a Nikon Nikkormat FTn with 5 lenses. 2 not so special ones (50mm f2 and 35mm f2.8), a nice-ish lens (135mm f3.5) and two nice lenses (55mm f3.5 1:2 micro and 85mm f1.8).
But I always forget that I also have a mint condition, boxed Ultra-Micro-Nikkor 55mm f2. It is an industrial use lens with very high resolution (500 lines per mm in the 12mm center circle, ZERo distortion and no vignetting wide open. It has a Leica screw mount.
It is a nicely crafted all metal lens, with no ficus ring/possibility and an aperture range from f2 to f8, in half f-stops.
Used on Leica-screw-mount it is an 1:4 micro lens, with biting sharpness, even wide open. With the right adapter it should/will work fine on a 135 format SLR to, I do not know what reproduction ratio it will have then (more close up, but I do not know how much). Photo samples I have seen show this lens to have a very nice bokeh quality
These Ultra-Micro's are highly sought after, prices sky rocketing after Michio Akiyama wrote about them in his Red book Nikkor.
I am wondering what path best to take... find/figure out a Leica screw mount adapter for Canon EOS mount for close up small DOF photography, or something like a Sony NEX with appropriate adapter and 1:4 lens, for bitingly sharp flower stuff?
But I always forget that I also have a mint condition, boxed Ultra-Micro-Nikkor 55mm f2. It is an industrial use lens with very high resolution (500 lines per mm in the 12mm center circle, ZERo distortion and no vignetting wide open. It has a Leica screw mount.
It is a nicely crafted all metal lens, with no ficus ring/possibility and an aperture range from f2 to f8, in half f-stops.
Used on Leica-screw-mount it is an 1:4 micro lens, with biting sharpness, even wide open. With the right adapter it should/will work fine on a 135 format SLR to, I do not know what reproduction ratio it will have then (more close up, but I do not know how much). Photo samples I have seen show this lens to have a very nice bokeh quality
These Ultra-Micro's are highly sought after, prices sky rocketing after Michio Akiyama wrote about them in his Red book Nikkor.
I am wondering what path best to take... find/figure out a Leica screw mount adapter for Canon EOS mount for close up small DOF photography, or something like a Sony NEX with appropriate adapter and 1:4 lens, for bitingly sharp flower stuff?