Happily Ever After
Life in The Rural Retreat with a beautiful wife, three cats, garden wildlife, a camera, a computer – and increasing amounts about running
Earlier posts can be found on Adventures of a Lone Bass Player, where this blog began life. Recent entries can be found here.
Making Use Of The Small Numbers
by admin - 19:06 on 12 January 2013
Hope triumphed over experience this morning when I was one of a reduced number of traders at the Cromarty Community Market. Post-Christmas penury, plus fog, meant few customers and no profit. Such is life.
The fog wasn't even picturesque and exciting. The Pentax didn't find it that way, at least, so my hopes of some dramatic landscapes were also dashed.
Today's Snapathon addition may look like another can't-find-anything-so-go-out-in-the-garden snap, but you'd be wrong. In fact, it's me testing the creative possibilities of a pre-digital lens I was given a while ago: a Chinon f1.7 50mm prime, no less.
Such a wide aperture results in a tiny depth of field. Combined with old school manual focus, that meant a bit of effort to capture the frosty grass sharply. A snap of the jumble on Matchgirl's sofa-side table proves just how small the DOF is at f1.7.
This would be a great portrait lens. Shame I've got no-one to snap, unless Squirrel James volunteers. The only problem is that the lens might break...
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