When The Wind Comes Right Behind The Rain

I went to the camera store expecting to make an ill-advised purchase, and I surprised myself by not, in fact, doing any such thing.

I ended up picking up two cheap lenses:

A Tamron 70-210 AF for a Nikon (AF doesn't work on my DSLRs because they don't have screw-type AF, but whatever) and a Soligor 35-70 + Macro lens for my Minoltas.

 

I also picked up a 3 pack of Fuji 400 film, along with a roll of dubblefilm Jelly and dubblefilm Echo, both 200 speed, both look like a lot of fun.  

I used the roll of Jelly when I was walking on the canal, and I took the types of photos I normally would, so this will be interesting when I develop it later.  I used a roll of Fuji at the same park I posted pictures of from the Tamron lens, I'll be interested to see what the difference is from manual and metering vs what I get from the automatic mode on the D3100.
 

When I Jumped Out On That Road

Okay.

Here's the D3100 with a known functional Nikon AF-S lens:

Everything looks about right, but it was super dark, and over exposure would be kind of helpful.

I guess I'll try it again during the day. 

I Find The Simple Life Ain’t So Simple

I threw a handful of the photos from the D3100 with the Tamron lens into Lightroom a few minutes ago.  I learned that yes, it is pulling basic metadata and encoding it. More importantly, however, my photos (in automatic mode, suppressed flash) are about two stops over exposed.

 Here are a few comparison pictures:

The darker pictures are the ones that have been corrected in Lightroom, and adjusted down two stops. 

I am about to pack up and head to a small, decently lit urban area with a Nikon AF lens that I know works correctly and see what I get.  I’m tempted to use the Tamron with in full manual mode as well. I haven’t decided on that one yet.

 I’ll post some updates shortly.

 

Runnin' With The Devil

I should probably actually upload the three or so of these that I will have written up once I’m done here, I was doing so well posting something every day, and then this past week I have been still writing, but experimenting with slightly stupid things and slightly stupid ways of doing the things.

 Anyway, today I came across a couple of rando camera lenses for stupid cheap, and some wacky film.

 I picked up a Tamron 70-210mm Nikon AF lens, and found out later that the lens requires an in-camera motor for the AF to work…Which I didn’t have handy. As for image quality, I was using the D3100, which seems a bit off, but the light was also a bit off.  Anyway, here are a few of the photos from that:

 

 

Good to see that Word 2000 isn’t going to allow me to drag and drop my images…I guess I’m going to have to add these when I post them.

 Anyway, they appear to be super over-exposed. I feel like I’ve been getting that out of the D3100 the last few times I’ve used it. I should probably throw a full auto lens on there and see what that’s about.  If the same thing happens, I should probably go full manual and meter some shots to see what is going on there.

 I’m also going to try that lens on the D40X and D3500, because duh.

 It looks like I’m going to be using it primarily on the older film SLRs with the body mount auto focus though. Which will be good.

 Which reminds me, I need to throw at least one of these pictures into Lightroom to see if the lens is at least including metadata.

 Then there’s Clippy.  Everyone complains about Clippy in Windows XP, but here he is…Staring me down in Office 2000.