RE: All Saints' | Wszystkich świętych | short photography series from my hometown
I was fascinated by the 50mm with which you captured such interesting mystical images of that Catholic tradition. I have a question about the Pentacon Electric 50 mm, f/1.8. is manual? has a ring to place it on your d3100?
I have a 50mm 1.8 series E is manual and good I have a few years accustomed to manual approaches.
the aesthetics of the photos fascinates me, the soft light, the colors, I produce a tranquility. here in my country Venezuela, many Catholic festivities are celebrated but of syncretic origin, half African half Catholic. and the difference is marked here is very colorful and noisy religious activities, instead your graphics make me see that the atmosphere was very relaxed and apasiguado. I like.
thank you for sharing, excellent pictures.
greetings, peace and love
Thank you! Yep, Pentacon Electric is a vintage manual lens. It has some "auto" switch which blocks aperture blades in the position of f/2.8-4, but it's not compatible with Nikons, so I use it as fully manual lens. Since it has M42 screw mount, to affix it on Nikon body I need an adapter. The adapter has additional lens, enabling it to focus to the infinity (that's just how Nikon works), unfortunately it does screw up quality of the photos (esp. below f/5.6) a bit. However, comparing Pentacon to other vintage lenses, it's the best choice - it's one of the sharpest, has multi-coating thus performs nicely even in full sunlight, no part of the lens retracts thus hitting camera's mirror or adapter (it's the issue that for example Helios and Carl Zeiss Jena lenses have).