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A busy weekend with hiking, Yashica and Pentax

Mattias — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:01:37 +0000

This weekend I have been hiking for over 12 hours in steep landscape of Kilsbergen where I live, taking photographs with most of my Yashica and Pentax-gear. A lot of pictures to sort through and aching legs to rest, but then some tests will be posted here :)

Balancing on a stone in the creek

Improve your digital work flow

Mattias — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:58:46 +0000

Google has published the book The DAM Book, by Peter Krogh, about work flow for digital images. Could be interesting even for us manual focus geaks. I got the tip from swedish photographer/bloger Magnus Nelson.

How to remember your manual lenses without EXIF

Mattias — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:50:45 +0000

When you use a digital single-lens reflex camera (DSLR) with modern lenses, you can always go back and look in the Exif to see what lens you used for each picture. But with the manual, old lenses there is no Exif-data from the lens. So if I use my Canon EOS 350D on a photosession, and 3 manual lenses – how do I remember which one I used for a single picture?

Well, I have come up with this rutine. Simple, I know – but useful. Take a picture of the lens before you mount it. If you use some kind of filter, take a picture when you mount it and when you dismount it and put it back in the bag.

Heres from my session the other day… I started with Pentax Super Takumar 35mm/3.5. Added macroring to shoot some flowers.

Add macroring

I took my flower-pictures. Removed the macroring.

Remove macroring

Took some pictures without the macroring. Then changed to Yashica ML 35mm/2.8

Change to Yashica ML 35mm

Shot some images. Changed back to Super Takumar.

Changed back to Super Takumar

A new change to Yashica ML 50mm/2. Well, I think you get the hang of it now? ;)

Change to Yashica ML 50mm

Pros

You dont have to remember a thing… well, almost nothing.
The pictures of lenses don’t need to be good, as long as you can see what they are.
Add keywords in your digital darkroom when you get home, then delete the pictures of lenses.

Cons

You need to know which lens you started with.
Could be a bit clumsy when you’re in a hurry
You dont get the f-stop recorded, so you might want to take notes anyway.