Christopher J Osborne

Will-Wetzlar Maginon 85mm f/2.8 lens, M52-M42 36-90mm focussing helicoid and M42-Sony E mount adapter

Will-Wetzlar Maginon 85mm f/2.8 lens with masking tape to ensure a snug fit

Will-Wetzlar Maginon 85mm f/2.8 lens mounted on a Sony A7 MkII

Another example of a typical plastic-barrelled lens from a fairly modern full-size 35mm slide projector, probably from the 1980s. You can use my standard method for adapting projector lenses from the 35mm slide projector lenses page with this lens. And the results…? Very nice! Maybe not quite in the class of the Leitz Colorplan, but then again that lens costs a lot more! But they're very sharp at the point of focus with nice shallow depth-of-field and lovely separation between the two.

This first set of 4 were all taken within a 20 minute walk of my home in Edinburgh and processed in Adobe Lightroom:

This next set of 6 were again all taken within a 20 minute walk of my home in Edinburgh but were processed using Sliver Efex Pro 2:

One of the distinctive features of this lens is the flare patterns you get when the sun is in just the right place at the edge of the frame. To enhance the effect I processed this image in Color Efex Pro 4 using the "Black Gold" preset.

I wanted to see how this lens would perform for macro photography, so I use a very cheap set of Sony e-mount extension tubes. I have to say I was very pleased with the results, even though these were shot "in the field" completely hand held!. (Though I wasn't overly pleased with the extension tubes themselves, which are very cheap and not very conveniently designed. I won't bother linking to them here as I can't honestly recommend them.)

With this final set of images (also shot using the cheap and 'orrible extension tubes mentioned above) I decided to explore my inner goth (;-)) with some photographs of dead flowers! Unlike the above 2 macro shots, these where taken at home on my dining table with the camera firmly fixed to a tripod.