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Mt. Tateyama – The Photos (#5)

These are some photos taken at Kurobe Dam, Toyama Prefecture while on the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route.  All taken with the Vivitar VMC 50mm f/1.7 m42 lens on the Pentax K10D.  I realised while processing these photos that most of the edges are quite blurry, even at a usually sharp aperture.  I’ll have to [...]

Mt. Tateyama – The Photos (#3)

Vivitar VMC 50mm f/1.7 : f/8 : ISO – 100 : Shutter – 1/2000

MC Jupiter-9 : f/8 : ISO – 100 : Shutter – 1/4000

Vivitar VMC 50mm f/1.7 : f/5.6 : ISO – 200 : Shutter – 1/4000

Mt. Tateyama – The Photos (#2)

Second set of photos from Mount Tateyama in Japan.  Again, a little dark in spooky looking (maybe I was in a bad mood when I processed the photos) but they do reflect the environment, cold, majestic and haunted.  These photos were on the 2nd day at 7am on a cold walk up [...]

Mt. Tateyama – The Photos (#1)

This first batch of Tateyama photos look pretty bleak, all being monochrome with dead trees and branches, but I think there’s beauty in such darkness and simplicity.  The first four shots were taken with the Vivitar VMC 50mm, a lens which I really liked using and the last was taken with the Jupiter-9, a [...]

Mt. Tateyama – The Equipment

The night before the Mt.Tateyama bus tour I was deliberating what lenses and equipment to take with me because usually I just throw in most of my lenses and end up using only a few of them.  The biggest decision I made…no Takumar lenses.  That’s right, the trusty Takumar lenses were left behind to [...]

Three lenses in a day!

The Jupiter-9, Vivitar 50mm 1.7 & the Soligor 28mm 2.5 all came today and I had a little play with them all.  The Vivitar and the Soligor seem fine for what I paid for them (under $40 USD inc shipping), I’ll do more tests with them over the next few weeks and [...]

New (to me) m42 lenses

I bought two lenses, both m42 screw mount from a Pentaxforums.com member, A Vivitar VMC 50mm 1.7 and a Soligor MC 28mm 2.5.

Although I already have a Pentax M 50mm 1.7, it’s not a screw mount and it will interesting to compare the two.  If the Vivitar is on par, I’ll probably sell [...]

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