Nothing like jumping in at the deep end!
Using M42 adapter, so camera aperture set wide open, using the lens to control aperture and focus manually. Apparently in retrospect it might have been wise to use Av mode, letting the camera sort out all the other bits and pieces, but I thought I’d go for broke and work in full manual to start with.
Sadly it took me a while to recognise the camera’s exposure indicator, which was jumping up and down trying to tell me something, so these were perhaps a little overexposed… I was Feeling Lucky on Picasa later, which made them kind of interesting if still awful:
ISO 100, f2.8, 1/125. Bright sunny day… oops.
And then I went indoors and overcompensated:
ISO 100, f2.8, 1/160 (I’m Feeling Lucky with Picasa)
Manually focussing on rapidly moving things (like kids) is tricky with no form of focus indicator. On the Praktica, you have the nice little split-circle guide, and I understand that spiffier DSLRs than the 20D have some bells and whistles that help you out with this. But today I was going it alone. The focus wasn’t brilliant, but I thought these worked okay.
ISO 100, f2.8, 1/500
ISO 100, f2.8, 1/400
ISO 100, f2.8, 1/1600
But here’s today’s mystery:
So the lens is 28mm/f2.8 (although the actual aperture numbering on the lens goes down to 2- that’s another mystery)… but the image info recorded by the camera has the focal length at 50mm. How does that work? Is it a default figure from the m42 adapter? That’s my guess. I’ll see what happens when I use a different lens.
