Despite the effort to find time and the struggle to know when to stop I have managed to complete the first painting from my latest series. I originally came up with the idea in November of 2009 so at this rate it would take awhile. Fortunately now that I have the basic look and feel set out future paintings, in theory, should “develop” faster.
It was a beautiful day today and the flowers are starting to bloom. I wanted to continue testing my new macro lens so I though that it would be interesting to try it with a film body. I used Kodak color 200 film and the PZ1-p. I then scanned the negatives with the Epson V700 at 3200 dpi. While it was interesting to do this I certainly missed the immediate feedback that you derive from using a digital camera and trying to squint through a viewfinder at odd angles is not as easy as using live view for composition. After all that though I am pleased with the results and can’t wait to shoot some more with this wonderful lens.
Well I thought I would be able to predict where this camera focused but apparently not. It’s a little too random for my liking, however as far as massively out of focus pictures go I like this one. Ohhh look at the pretty colours, aren’t they pretty.
With the limited time I’ve had to spend with this lens so far I have been very impressed. Although I want to take more pictures before coming to any conclusions, if the build quality is any indication of the optical performance, I will not be disappointed. The images I am including were all converted to jpegs using the K-7’s built in image processing however I re-sized them in Lightroom.
I thought it would be fun to expose a roll of film through my x-700 which I bought new as a teenager. I shot with colour film and converted to black and white using Lightroom which is just as real as a BW created by a digital camera. I may post the images that I left as colour separately.
