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Gear Talk => Lens Talk => Topic started by: Grahame Hamblin on January 30, 2016, 10:18:54

Title: $4.00 lens
Post by: Grahame Hamblin on January 30, 2016, 10:18:54
Purchased microfiche lens sometime ago thought i should try it  Nikon 810 hand held 320th sec.has it potential http://
Title: Re: $4.00 lens
Post by: Tristin on January 30, 2016, 10:55:20
Bokeh looks nice, but the pics is pretty over cooked.  Hard to really give it any judgement.
Title: Re: $4.00 lens
Post by: pluton on January 30, 2016, 19:13:52
Do tell more about the lens.  Perhaps show us a photo of it?
Title: Re: $4.00 lens
Post by: Fons Baerken on January 30, 2016, 19:27:47
This is what i found

https://www.flickr.com/photos/real_jax/5338810350 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/real_jax/5338810350)
Title: Re: $4.00 lens
Post by: Grahame Hamblin on January 31, 2016, 01:26:40
You are quite right over processed. Minolta zoom 7.5 to 12. I will use it more with a little more care and write down data etc. but was surprised at apartment sharpness.
Grahame
Title: Re: $4.00 lens
Post by: Wannabebetter on April 24, 2017, 21:31:17
Bokeh looks nice, but the pics is pretty over cooked.  Hard to really give it any judgement.
I'm not quite sure what you were getting at. Too much, post-processing? Perhaps I should have my eyes -- or head -- examined.

Incidentally, I came to the post after searching "microfiche lens" on this site. I'm actually rather surprised there aren't more posts. This is certainly one area the boy-scientist in me wants to explore. Especially, micro/macro UV/IR.
Title: Re: $4.00 lens
Post by: Grahame Hamblin on April 25, 2017, 09:20:57
must get that lens out again microfich lens are great. go to surpleshed and brouse also type in projection lens any lens out of scanners security camerras etc enjoy.i drilled a hole in  body cap and stuck lens in
Grahame
Title: Re: $4.00 lens
Post by: Tristin on April 25, 2017, 09:27:11
I'm not quite sure what you were getting at. Too much, post-processing? Perhaps I should have my eyes -- or head -- examined.

Too much compression and sharpening to be able to judge the lens' rendering. 

The file size limits for images here are quite generous . . . ;)
Title: Re: $4.00 lens
Post by: Matthew Currie on April 26, 2017, 17:28:58
One of my favorite macro rigs comes from a "Compugraphic" typesetting machine, which had a turret on which various small macro lenses were mounted.  Most of them fit into a microscope adapter, and a few that did not were easily machined so that they do, and the result is a few that work very well, with varying magnification.  Apertures are a little dim, but they're pretty sharp.

I'm too lazy to go back and find the NEF originals now, but here are a couple of small JPG's made with the D3200 and a couple of those lenses, which ones now forgotten:

Title: Re: $4.00 lens
Post by: Wannabebetter on June 13, 2017, 09:14:32
Too much compression and sharpening to be able to judge the lens' rendering. 

The file size limits for images here are quite generous . . . ;)
Oh... yes, of course. Thank you!
Title: Re: $4.00 lens
Post by: Wannabebetter on June 13, 2017, 09:32:42
must get that lens out again microfich lens are great. go to surpleshed and brouse also type in projection lens any lens out of scanners security camerras etc enjoy.i drilled a hole in  body cap and stuck lens in
Grahame
Actually, I've had www.surplusshed.com bookmarked for about as long as they've had a website! I'm one of those anal retentive sorts whose bookmarks are organized like the Library of Congress and exported with each new OS iteration or computer. In my experience, Surplus Shed is one of the least expensive alternatives to that other source of surplus optics and scientific ephemera useful for restoration projects and home-brewed gadgetry. Really brings the steam punk out in me! American Science & Surplus -- www.sciplus.com -- is another source that occasionally yields a worthwhile item useful to the weekend mad scientist.
Title: Re: $4.00 lens
Post by: Krishna Kodukula on June 13, 2017, 14:50:27
Thanks for sharing those links.
Title: Re: $4.00 lens
Post by: Grahame Hamblin on June 16, 2017, 03:29:20
Had  play with this cost $5 no brand no markings that i can see hand held in the wind will play some more
Title: Re: $4.00 lens
Post by: Wannabebetter on July 19, 2017, 18:52:45
Thanks for sharing those links.
You're very welcome!