We call this "Bring out the Dead"One of the items left out on the street for the clear up. I remember these things used to cost a lot of money, now outdated and discarded.
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Andrew, what lens did it used to be?
Andrew, what lens did it used to be?
When testing for focussing errors with my SLRs (think Minolta XD7 and Nikon F3 and FM), I used sheet music and photographed that under a 45º angle, like so:I made a test bed and put batteries on my flash and started shooting. The focus of the test was to study if and how the different LTM adapters I have work with the frontfocusing Voigtländer 75mm.
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The outcome of the test: I'm super bad at making test benches
I have to definitely redo and use something similar. Simple and effective! Flat surfaces so that there's a clear progression in distance. And definitely only one place to focus on. I remember where I focused on... the whole 2 seconds after the factI used sheet music and photographed that under a 45º angle, like so:
... and with that I had to Google 'how many days until Spring'. Thanks for the inspiration of counting down 67 days.My fiancée's collection of seashells...
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