Day Prime 2023

Hard to find lens, fairly rare. Made for Robot cameras, 24x24 or 18x24 tops. Still, with a nice vignette and lots of field curvature it covers the FF sensor in a charming way. Meyer Görlitz Robot Primotar 1:3.5 F=3cm (approximately 1936).

30.1: Winding water


30.2: Old crane


30.3: Reflections


30.4: No entry


30.5: Fence (a demonstration of field curvature)



Edited by Snegren - 04 February 2023 at 20:35

Day 35 MDii 35/2.8 on a tilt adapter a7c
Lunar New Year Lion Dances, Chinatown, NYC

35.1 Stepping across the street


35.2 Dancing in the sun


35.3 Drummers accompany the dances


35.4 Performers after


35.5 Impressionist lion

Day 30 hike with the SMC Pentax 30mm F2.8 on the A7RIV. I didn't record the aperture used.


ISO 100 1/200 s f/5.6


ISO 100 1/1000 s f/2.8


ISO 100 1/100 s f/8


ISO 100 1/200 s f/5.6

A big day 35 with a 16mm projection Meyer from the 30s, one MC and one MD Minolta and one Minolta with AF.

Lets start with Hugo Meyer & Co. Görlitz Kinon III f=3.5 cm. I cut the barrel as the highly recessed front element was suffering from vignetting (the difference in field of view between 16mm film and APSC is just too much). A great deal of field curvature outside the area of intended use leads to swirlyness.

35.1: Laurentius (field curvature)


35.2: Luma (enough swirl?)


35.3: Le Centaure


35.4: Keep moving forward


35.5: X marks the spot


35.6: A basket case

Minolta Shift CA 35MM 1:2.8. It was the same case as the Minolta RF250. You know it exists, you want it but not enough to go digging in your deepest pockets. Until opportunity presents itself. No that is not right, until you let opportunity present itself. It is a disease. I've been told that all men suffer from some sort of hoarding syndrome, be it stamps or comics or.... Well, better be lenses.

Back to the lens. I am mesmerized by the whole concept of shift lenses. The mechanics of it is so great. Keep the camera level and shift until composition is made. Focus, set aperture to f/8, snap. The opposite of point and shoot.   

35.16: Rotterdam, The White House


35.17: Words


35.18: Blaaktoren from the cube-houses


35.19: Stayokay


Maximum shift:

35.20: Rotterdam, Wijnhaven


As a panorama of three, easy stitching:

35.21: Rotterdam, Wijnhaven


35.22: Rotterdam, The Old Harbor

Nice series from all lenses Paul, plenty of swirl with the first and that shift lens seems to work very well. I'm still looking to add the 35 mm OM Zuiko shift to my OM collection, but haven't found one yet, these photos tell me I really need one . 35.23 shows why I like my AF 35/2 so much and the panos are nice. I also throw a pano into day prime once in a while, I see it as another way to show how the lens can work.

pegelli wrote: I'm still looking to add the 35 mm OM Zuiko shift to my OM collection, but haven't found one yet, these photos tell me I really need one . 35.23 shows why I like my AF 35/2 so much.

Shift addiction! Now I know that Laowa has issued a 20 mm shift lens in FE mount (a much more practical lens than the 12 mm with 1.4X teleconverter/shift adapter, 17 mm is soooooo wide, the lens is soooo heavy) I'm sold!

The Mino 35/2 is indeed one of the real Minolta gems.