shells in the sand.

Yesterday on a bike ride along the Rhine I discovered some beautiful shells on the shore and photographed them.

the macro effect: EOS meets Minolta - part 2.

After the Minolta MC Rokkor-PG 1.4/50mm in part 1, I used now the Minolta MD W.Rokkor 2.8/35mm lens with my EOS DSLR @ 2.8.

the macro effect: EOS meets Minolta - part 1.

It's wonderful that you can use your old prime lenses at your modern digital camera. I have some great Minolta lenses that I use with an adapter at my DSLR.
This time I used my Minolta MC Rokkor-PG 1.4/50mm lens at my EOS to shoot some macro pictures @ 1.4.

the macro effect: the bellows macro setup.

Last time I shot macro pictures with two monster setups (part 1 and 2), but this time is much more monsterously, because I used an old M42 Pentacon bellows in combintaion with a Helios 44-2 2/58mm lens at my Canon DSLR.

It's a little bit tricky to photograph with a bellows and it's better to use it with a tripod, but I wanted to make some quick macro shots, therefore I didn't use one.

without the bellows

without the bellows

my little wannabe frankenstein camera. part2.

Just some more random pictures which I made with my Canon EOS 500N and the Zuiko Auto-S 1.8/50mm lens. Now I used an expired Fuji Superia 100 film.

my little wannabe frankenstein camera.

In August I bought as a bargain a srcappy Canon EOS 500N with the battery grip to use simple AA batteries at the Mimapi Altertümchen. I wanted to use my M42 lenses via adapter at the 500N, but some days later I bought very cheap a broken black Olympus OM-1 with the great Zuiko Auto-S 1.8/50mm lens at a fleamarket. As I just have an adapter to use OM-lenses at EOS cameras, I decided to use the 1.8/50mm at the 500N. The Sony lens cap I found at the same time on the street.
At the back of the camera I put an exposure chart, because the lightmeter doesn't work with manual lenses.

I shot some pictures from the Fernmeldeturm Grünwettersbach, a French hydrant and Rhine signs in France and Germany with the EOS and the Zuiko lens on a Kodak Gold 200 film.