[Theme] Df (D750)+ Rodenstock Heligon 100mm f/1.6

[Jakov Minić]

Andrew, I wish I had a D750

[Andrew]

You are shooting a lot and That is important!

[stenrasmussen]

True words And!
I keep shooting a lot but the misses ain't satisfied 

[Jakov Minić]

All these were shot in one day last year at Keukenhof
Thank you Andrew and Sten!
I am like an open book, you can see the exact date and time of the image taken in the title of each image

[PeterN]

I love these examples. Whenever I am ready to "go special" I will look for such a lens!

[Jakov Minić]

This photo could have ended up in various threads.

Busy finishing off the week before a lazy weekend

Thanks PeterN!

Good morning NG.

Edit: Forgot to mention it's a one photo stack.

[Andrew]

Again something new from you, Jakov!

[HCS]

Oh no ... Jakov, you're loosing it, you failed to get it all unsharp 

Seriously, especially the last shot is great, Sir! Just the right amount of sharp and excellent colour composition.

[John Geerts]

Jakov, it's a lovely, creamy, yellowish unstacked bug

[Jakov Minić]

Andrew, Hans and John I am honored that you like my stacked fly

Hans, I know I am losing it... i am getting things in focus...

[Mikes]

Edit: Forgot to mention it's a one photo stack.

 

[Bjørn Rørslett]

If the rear lens group of these superfast lenses is removed, you get much longer working distance. I hardly need add that the level of optical aberrations skyrockets concomitantly, but hey, you don't shoot with these lenses to get *ultra sharp* pictures do you?

I tried this trick briefly with my Oude Delft Rayxar 65 mm f/0.75 lens. Autumn colours came through beautifully and of course, such a lens is just about bokeh. In fact, so much bokeh there hardly is room for anything else.

Shot this morning with the Df literally on my door step. This kind of lens visually "enlarges" any space to the extreme so you hardly need to move around to find new scenes

[Andrew]

Just very well done!

[John Geerts]

That's an impressive setup !

Here the Firethorn  ( Pyracantha )  with the extension tube on D200

[charlie]

If the rear lens group of these superfast lenses is removed, you get much longer working distance. I hardly need add that the level of optical aberrations skyrockets concomitantly, but hey, you don't shoot with these lenses to get *ultra sharp* pictures do you?

Funny you should say that, as we speak a Heligon f/1.5 is on my desk in pieces. Because the f/1.5 version of this lens has even shorter working distance than the f/1.6 version, I never used it. I decided to see if I could rearrange the lens elements to see about getting infinity focus. I pulled all of them out and started putting them back in with different combinations until something made focus. Right now it looks like I have three elements on the desk and 3 in the lens. Not sure how useful it will be as I haven't used it much yet, but I got it to focus to infinity.