PAW 2008, Week 22

Fellow PDMLer and a great friend of mine presented me with the close up diopter filter. My longest lens is SMCP FA 77/1.8 Limited which I promptly tried.

Raspberries
SMCP FA 77/1.8 Limited at f/4.5

PAW 2008, Week 21

My Bike
SMCP A 50/1.2 at f/2.0

PAW 2008, Week 20

Speaking of wallpapers...
SMCP A 50/1.2 at f/8.0

PAW 2008, Week 19

This year the Independence Day (actually it is 60th birthday of State of Israel) happened to be exactly in the middle of 19th week ;-). Curious holiday, the Independence Day is. This year one of the bigger banks ordered a whole bunch of country flags in China. Unfortunately Chinese sub-contractors rotated the Star of David a little. All these flags came out badly. I think there is a law somewhere that demands that only geometrically correct flags be used. Anyway, we had a trip in the vicinity of Rothschild boulevard in Tel Aviv and I collected quite a few incorrect flags. Here they are.

SMCP A 50/1.2 at f/5.6.

SMCP A 50/1.2 at f/4.5

SMCP A 50/1.2 at f/4.5

PAW 2008, Week 18

And so I was, enjoying the speed and image quality of SMCP A 50/1.2 to the full. But then I realized, I haven't taken even a single shot at infinity range. That asked for a trip to the sea shores of Shfaim Nature Reserve.

Alone.
SMCP A 50/1.2 at f/9.

Just as well, this lens is not showing any color aberrations related to high contrast areas.