#xtranssensor

The latest lens addition to my vintage arsenal is nearly a century old with a circular opening the size of a bottle cap; it's a lens that was made during the 16mm film era. It's a Cooke & Kinic 1 inch 25mm F1.5 in C-Mount! As you can see above the heavy vignetting wasn't added artificially; it's a result of the image circle of this lens being smaller than the size of the #XTransSensor on my #FujifilmXH1! The lens is astoundingly sharp in the center for such a vintage piece and I believe I found a superb copy!! Most people complain about not being able to get this small guy to focus to infinity but mine does! All images I'll be posting in the next few days, came from my first test shoot last night. I will be using this lens a lot. It gave me that extra edge I was looking for other than the clinical precision of modern digital glass! . This dead branch is what's left of a #PaloVerdeTree who's root system was taken over by a neighboring #Saguaro cactus. It acted as a nursing tree to the cactus until the cacti's root system started competing with the roots of the nursing tree. But without these nursing trees in the #SonoranDesert it wouldn't be possible for Saguaro Seedlings to make it into adulthood... (at Phoenix, Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/CijGhERJIXk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The latest lens addition to my vintage arsenal is nearly a century old with a circular opening the size of a bottle cap; it's lens that was made during the 16mm film era. It's a Cooke & Kinic 1 inch 25mm F1.5 in C-Mount! As you can see above the heavy vignetting wasn't done added artificially; it's a result of the image circle of this lens being smaller than the size of the #XTransSensor on my #FujifilmXH1! The lens is astoundingly sharp in the center for such a vintage piece and I believe I found a superb copy!! Most people complain about not being able to get this small guy to focus to infinity but mine does! All images I'll be posting came from my first test shoot last night. I will be using this lens a lot. It gave me that extra edge I was looking for other than the clinical precision of modern digital glass! . This dead branch is what's left of a #PaloVerdeTree who's root system was taken over by a neighboring #Saguaro cactus. It acted as a nursing tree to the cactus until the cacti's root system started competing with the roots of the nursing tree. But without these nursing trees in the #SonoranDesert it wouldn't be possible for Saguaro Seedlings to make it into adulthood... (at Scottsdale, Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/CXMBk-3JklU/?utm_medium=tumblr