Prime Of Your Life

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nobody@flickr.com (mick sz4) — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 23:42:05 -0700

mick sz4 posted a reply:

Panasonic 20mm f1.7 on a µ4/3, or in old English thats 40mm on a full frame. Normal vision / perspective, well near on as a 35mm film negative is around 42mm diagonal. Strange how most lens manufactures decided that 50mm would be a "normal" lens !

Most µ4/3 users are now aware of the superb quality of the 20mm f1.7 pancake.

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nobody@flickr.com (chickentender™ (Eyewanders Foto)) — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:52:14 -0700

chickentender™ (Eyewanders Foto) posted a reply:

Man oh man do I love this little group. It's taken on a life of it's own. I practically forget to check in these days but it doesn't seem to matter a whole lot.
Along this thread's lines. I returned some time ago (gosh over a year ago now) from my travels and the combination of my K7 with a 50mm and a my little GRD3 (at a 28mm equiv) was the perfect combo. If I did it again I'd be VERY tempted to take my (semi) recently aquired 31mm limited... but I'd definitely weigh that option against the cost of loosing the little beauty.
Keep posting the good stuff Primers!

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nobody@flickr.com (Vlachbild) — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 11:33:02 -0800

Vlachbild posted a reply:

Would do it with my 35mm 1.4 on A65

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nobody@flickr.com (chickentender™ (Eyewanders Foto)) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:59:10 -0700

chickentender™ (Eyewanders Foto) posted a reply:

A belated but hearty welcome to you indeed. This group still slowly grows in quantity ,but quickly in quality. I've been very transient around the globe for the past 1 and 1/2 years but hope to be more involved in the not-too-distant future. Cheers and hello!

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nobody@flickr.com (Cogger) — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:08:25 -0700

Cogger posted a reply:

Welcome to the group, that's some cv!
Liked the photos - in these days of do-everything lenses and and all-night-party colours, you have to step back from the fray and think to shoot mono with a prime lens.

Hello everyone! Stephen here!

nobody@flickr.com (Stephen Nesbit) — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:31:20 -0700

Stephen Nesbit posted a new topic:

Just thought I'd post here before i started sharing some of my images.

I'm a 37 year old guy that has cameras on the brain lately, and use photography as a way manage pain from various injuries.

I started out as a hobbyist photographer when I was about 16 and ended up returning to college much later in life (at age 30) to study photography in college as i loved the many ways to capture light that I could find.

Even though I already knew a bit about photography, I wanted to know more, so I took some black and white photography courses that taught me how to develop my own negatives and to process my own prints. So from start to finish I was taking the picture, processing the negatives, and turning them in to gorgeous black and white prints. A small portfolio of these won me a 1 year scholarship at the college and I've been ultra-hooked on photography ever since.

As a side-note, you have an entirely new appreciation for photography after you learn to do all of this work BY HAND in pitch black rooms with no light!

At that time I was using a Nikon F2A Photomic with a Nikkor 50mm f/1.4, and I loved that camera.

Not long after I won the scholarship, my apartment was broken into, and all of my camera equipments was stolen, so I suffered through 2 years with no camera to use, and that about killed me, until I saved up and bought a Canon Eos 40D, along with a Canon 50mm 1.8 II prime.

I just recently got my hands on an Olympus Pen E-PL1 micro four thirds camera, and a few other lenses that I'll be using to 'freeze time' ;)

A couple vintage lenses with appropriate adapters.
Industar-50-2 f/3.5, a Russian-made lens from around 1959.
SMC Pentax-M 50mm f/1.4 from around 1973.
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II made around 2009.

The Industar-50-2 just arrived after a 4-week wait from Russia, and I had to spend 2 hours cleaning it before it was functional again but now it's a gem and waiting to be used!

Anyway, I've babbled enough, so I'll end here with a link to my set of black & white Nikon photographs that won me my scholarship, then go share a few photos!

Nikon B&W

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nobody@flickr.com (victorsez) — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 21:18:08 -0800

victorsez posted a reply:

50mm Summicron on my old single-stroke M3. I've used that combo for many years and on many trips. It's all I need. Travel light!

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nobody@flickr.com (Rolandave Bola) — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 06:58:29 -0800

Rolandave Bola posted a reply:

i've done it a couple of times w/ my 50mm 1.8 on a d300. went on a trip for 4 days. having been used to zooms, it was difficult at first, but got used to moving around eventually. though i had a tammy 17-50 f2.8 in the bag, i never got to use it during the whole duration of the trip. but i must say, a 50mm on a cropped-sensor body really gave me some hard times, but it was fun, there were challenges along the way w/c made my shoot more interesting.

i'm planning to doing it again.. but this time w/ the 35mm f2d. :)

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nobody@flickr.com (Kevinim82) — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:09:53 -0800

Kevinim82 posted a reply:

Santa put a brick in my stocking because I was bad the whole year. On further looking the brick ended up being a nikkor 50 f1.2 (very similar to a lensbaby composer in many respects.) The nikkor is a glass monster, and a little work of art in its own right... goes good bastardized on a canon camera.

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nobody@flickr.com (Rolandave Bola) — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 23:49:07 -0800

Rolandave Bola posted a reply:

mom gave me a nikkor 35 f2D for Christmas..