Street Photography 9 - Zone test with f1.4 Rikkenon Lens 50mm

Here are my 9th attempt at Street Photography...

Camera: Pentax ME Super
Film: Kentmere iso400
Time: Early morning Saturday, 2010 - Snow Storm
Lens: F1.4 50mm Rikkenon

I went out on Saturday morning taking my XA and ME Super with me, its snowing hard and first time on such conditions. Not even cold and numbness in my hand tell me not to take photos outside downtown and looking for some interesting spots... here are some of my photos taken during this session.



Zone focusing @3m F11.0

Morning walk

Sidewalk

Whereto?

Snow fun

Group March

One Point

Stop

Closed

Quick snap

White Stair: in focus

I was pretty much dismayed by the results of my developed film, images which were supposed to be sharp and tack(@f1.4) looks soft and out of focus. It probably have something to do with the way I handled the film prior to developing and also I noticed a weak fixer and uneven development on some film areas.

Im still going to try out how sharp these lens are using Zone Focusing method. Maybe on my next session i'll bring two lenses on my next session to compare how sharp and tack they are onced got processed(hoping its a good development) One are Rikkenon F1.4 and the SMC Pentax F2.0 both prime lens and be used with zone focusing method.

Samsung Galaxy Captivate?

Recently I lost my phone after buying some goods on the grocey strore, I was really upset and mad at the same time having lost my contacts and files that comes with it. Its been days since I lost my nokia phone and decided to pick up a smartphone that can surf, make some little application and lots more.

So this is my choice and I was lucky to prefer this over the iphone 4/Blackberry which is quite popular here. It got pretty much all the things I ever needed for a phone aside from touch screen and downloadble application...(yeah ps1 games!) it got a decent 5.0 MP camera that goes with it too. I am excited to take some photos on my next session and was pretty surprised by the image quality this phone can produced.

Some camera controls for this phone are:

- iso can be set max of 800
- exposure compensation
- you can select which area to focus and its touch screen!
- has whitebalance and other photo effects
- has auto focus and macro modes too
- its pretty fast when taking photos
- panorama mode

Downside for this phone is I have to take out the SD memory card everytime I load/unload files, using a usb cable wont work with this phone and that's what turns me off(needs to find a compatible driver for my xp windows). Here are some photos of my new phone.