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<\/center><\/p>\nI checked the screen preview on the 5D’s LCD and it looked two stops overexposed, so I took another at f\/11. Now this did not smell right. Years with manual cameras have done a decent job of calibrating the exposure meter in my brain, and f\/5.6 looked about right to me.<\/p>\n
Getting home I dropped the snaps in iPhoto and, sure enough, the original at f\/5.6 was right, the other two stops underexposed. What gives? Well, I had cranked up the brightness of the Canon’s screen to maximum in a vain attempt to make the thing visible in daylight. As a result, everything looks over exposed. So I have now reset the screen to the factory default.<\/p>\n
The picture above is about half the original, yet is wonderfully well defined on a 13x enlargement. So those magicians at Leitz Wetzlar had it all right some forty years ago when this lens was first sold. A 40 year old lens on a 4 week old camera…. OK, so it’s not auto-anything, but I mostly use long lenses on landscapes, which tend to be fairly stationary beasts. I’ll leave sports photography to those far more expert than I will ever be. Or want to be, in that genre.<\/p>\n
As for that LCD screen, I have adopted a one hundred year old technology to solve the problem. Diving into my 4″x5″Crown Graphic kit, I borrow the well worn black T shirt which I use to see the focusing screen on that behemoth and stick it over my head and the camera. This actually makes the LCD screen visible. Some things never change.<\/p>\n
On the way home I spotted this gaggle of $1mm homes perched on a cliff overlooking the Pacific. Anywhere else these would be slum dwellings but here in California these are considered luxury weekend getaways. Right dead on the San Andreas fault.<\/p>\n
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<\/center><\/p>\nWhatever you think of the architecture, you may agree that this old lens still does the job.<\/p>\n
Here’s the center section at a 30x magnification ratio:<\/p>\n
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<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That’s Heath Robinson to British readers Having written about the complexities of getting my old Leitz 200mm f\/4 Telyt to work on the Canon EOS 5D, I took the Rube Goldberg collection of lens, adapters and digital body combination for a spin yesterday, in that wonderful afternoon light you get right before a storm. Ergonomically … Continue reading Taking Rube Goldberg for a spin<\/span>