So the weapons of choice were a 25mm Olympus PRO, a 50mm Nikon, and an ancient 85mm Jupiter 9, the last 2 both being manual lenses. Yesterday however I decided to challenge myself (only slightly!) by taking with me 3 prime lenses and leaving the zoom at home. There is not much that it doesn't cover and for architecture and street it is a perfect companion, it's fast, it's accurate, and it's sharp.
My usual lens for architecture and street photography is a wonderful 12-100mm f/4 Olympus Pro lens which on my micro 4/3s system covers a 24-to-200mm full frame equivalent - so basically very wide to quite long. I made a trip into London yesterday and decided to visit some areas that I've photographed many times before. The colour is lively and quite nicely rendered and this lens certainly does not disappoint where it concerns sharpness for this type of shot. But I think it illustrates just how capable these old lenses still are.
I have no idea what aperture I set the lens to for this, I suspect 5.6 or thereabouts. This was one of the images I was going to show and it's of a long exposure night shot that I took with my Nikkor 50mm f1.2 in London last August. As it turns out we only got through 6 or 7 photographers before we ran out of time and as I was last on the programme I didn't get the chance.Īt any rate, you won't be surprised to learn that my 10 pictures were on the theme of vintage lenses and I wanted to demonstrate how manual lenses could be used both creatively, using bokeh, and as a straight forward prime lens for shooting every day shots, in the same way you'd use any modern AF lens. I was meant to talk about some of my pictures last night in our weekly camera club meeting as we hosted a 10x10 night (10 members each show and talk about 10 of their pictures).
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