Shot with a Canon EOS 50D (w/ Jupiter-6 180mm f2.8 lens)
- Shot on Aperture priority
- Focal Length: 180mm (35mm equivalent: 288mm)
- Aperture: f2.8
- Exposure: 1/640s
- ISO 800
Was playing around with my new baby – a Jupiter-6. It is a 180mm f2.8 M 39-mount lens built in Russia in (or around) the ’60s. I bought it with a Canon-mount converter and attached it to my 50D.
I have been spending a few minutes here and there shooting random objects to get around metering and focusing with it. It, quite naturally, has no auto focus and has manual aperture. It somehow short-circuits the Canon sensor into thinking it is an f2.0 lens, I haven’t quite figured how. I’m using it exclusively on Av at the moment, but will need more time to experiment.
I learned photography using a manual-focus camera, but that was built for it. This body does not really cater for manual focusing, so even though it beeps on focus I still find I need to adjust it ever so-slightly.
While trying to practice focusing I was pointing the camera at my wife. She was browsing the web on her phone at the time and hit the wrong button so she (jokingly) growled at the phone. Since my shutter release was already half-depressed I just shot a couple of frames and, as they say, caught the moment.
(#56 of 366 X 2012 project)