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Antonio, great images and very nice colors.

Ray, I found similarly Nikkor-S 35mm 1.4 for a good price and wondering if there is a 50-55mm match up... I guess 58mm 1.4 is the match, but much more then I paid for the 35mm:) The colors were excellent on 35mm but the flare was bad. I tried it with the OM 50mm 1.2 and it was even worse with flare... It is due to coatings of that time. I don't know if you had a chance to try in sunny outdoors...
 
A bit of color:

An almost endless amount of photographic opportunities. Wonderful rendering of colors and tones. And beautiful compositions too. If I may say, I especially enjoyed the composition in #3: the sideway, the visible sky between the building and the buildings on the other side of the street. Everything adds something to the story.
 
These are fab Antonio.

I'm intrigued by the cold water colour photograph. Is there a story with the RIP headstone? So unusual to see one outside a shop.

It is very unusual, and what first caught my attention when I saw the scene. The shop in question is an "antique" shop (I use quotes because it really is more of a junk shop) in Old San Juan. Based on the year of the inscription and the shape, I would say that the headstone was a cover for one of the niches in the mausoleum in the cemetery in Old San Juan, which has recently been under renovation. Somebody probably took it, and brought it to the store to sell.

Thank you for your kind comment, Karen!

Cheers,

Antonio

Thanks for asking and clarifying. I already wondered why it was there but I did not know the right wording in English. Now I know: RIP Headstone. And even more: the plausible story behind it as well.
 
Antonio, great images and very nice colors.

Ray, I found similarly Nikkor-S 35mm 1.4 for a good price and wondering if there is a 50-55mm match up... I guess 58mm 1.4 is the match, but much more then I paid for the 35mm:) The colors were excellent on 35mm but the flare was bad. I tried it with the OM 50mm 1.2 and it was even worse with flare... It is due to coatings of that time. I don't know if you had a chance to try in sunny outdoors...
Which lens are you asking about? The 58 f1.4G (VERY expensive) or the 5.8cm f1.4 I recently had (but had to return due to a damaged aperture ring)? I've shot both on sunny days but I'm not sure into the sun in a way that would induce flare. But, if you're asking about the old one, it's a 1960-ish lens, and I don't think ANY lens from those days was flare-resistant like the best of today's glass... Recent glass is clearly technically better than the old stuff - it's just a question of whether the technical flaws of the old stuff produces characteristics you like or can live with or those you can't stand. One of the best photos I ever took in my life, back in the mid-70's (I'd give nearly anything to have a good print or the negative of that shot back) had three huge gobs of flare in it and they really contributed to the atmosphere of the shot. It was a street shot before I even knew what a street shot was, and I don't know if I'll ever top it.

-Ray
 
The confusing part: the Nikon/Nikkorex and Nikon/Nikkormat manuals published when the 58/1.4 was current list it as 7 elements in 5 groups. The air gap is shown, but the designers considered it to be a group.
Hmmm, well I don't know if that's a discrepancy or a matter of definitions. I don't know enough about the innards of these beasts to shed any light at all - fortunately I like the way the lenses shed their light...

-Ray
 
Between using the Coolpix A and trying out a Fuji X70, I hadn't shot much with the DF in a month or more. But crazy warm early Spring weather chased my lazy ass into Philly yesterday. Instead of my usual street shooting around the busy center city area, I walked up the Ben Franklin Parkway, past the Basilica, the Barnes Foundation, the Art Museum, the Fairmount Water Works, and Boathouse Row. Then I grabbed one of the bikes from the city's public bike program and rode down to South Philly for the greatest Italian Hoagie known to man (or woman) - but I stopped shooting before I got on the bike. So here are a few from the Basilica (where the Pope hung out a bunch when he was in Philly last summer), the Barnes, the Art Museum, and Fairmount Water Works, with Boathouse Row in the distance... The first two are with the 5.8cm f1.4, the rest are with the Zeiss 25 f2.8...

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-Ray
 
@ Circuit of the Americas....(35-70 ƒ2.8)
Nice shot RT. The more I see of that 35-70 the more I wish it fit my shooting. Looks like such a nice lens, reasonable size, great optics, pennies on the dollar today, and it even auto-focuses! But I just so rarely ever shoot in that range, and when I do it's generally with a very very fast 58. So I couldn't ever see myself using it, but it's one of those lenses I'm just glad is out there and WISH I had a use for.

-Ray
 
Nice shot RT. The more I see of that 35-70 the more I wish it fit my shooting. Looks like such a nice lens, reasonable size, great optics, pennies on the dollar today, and it even auto-focuses! But I just so rarely ever shoot in that range, and when I do it's generally with a very very fast 58. So I couldn't ever see myself using it, but it's one of those lenses I'm just glad is out there and WISH I had a use for.

-Ray

Tks Ray!
IMHO, the 35-70 ƒ2.8 is really the "poor mans" 24-70/28-70 ƒ2.8 :D
 
Tks Ray!
IMHO, the 35-70 ƒ2.8 is really the "poor mans" 24-70/28-70 ƒ2.8 :D
And I'm poor enough for it, but the part of the 24-70 I'd use would be about 24-35... ;) Actually, Sigma makes an art lens that's 24-35 at f2 throughout, but it's huge, VERY heavy (it would be my heaviest lens by far), and quite pricy, so I'd never use it if I ever bought it. But really nice lens if you don't mind carrying it.

Here are a few from a really nice walk through my hometown yesterday with the Zeiss 21 f2.8. My favorite lens that I don't use as much as I should...


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First 2 are my favorites!
That's a bold, bold, blue - I like it! Even more incredible is the 2nd image - zero color and in contrast with the first - and yet it too works! :cool:

And I'm poor enough for it, but the part of the 24-70 I'd use would be about 24-35... ;) Actually, Sigma makes an art lens that's 24-35 at f2 throughout, but it's huge, VERY heavy (it would be my heaviest lens by far), and quite pricy, so I'd never use it if I ever bought it. But really nice lens if you don't mind carrying it.

Here are a few from a really nice walk through my hometown yesterday with the Zeiss 21 f2.8. My favorite lens that I don't use as much as I should...


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Town Walk-13-Edit
by Ray, on Flickr

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Town Walk-30-Edit
by Ray, on Flickr

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Town Walk-35-Edit
by Ray, on Flickr

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Town Walk-46-Edit
by Ray, on Flickr

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Town Walk-27-Edit
by Ray, on Flickr

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Town Walk-11-Edit
by Ray, on Flickr
 
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