This lens is a nice change to the photos you see! Love it 😁❤️

Sooo cool!! So metal that it’s radioactive too

Regarding the radioactive lenses, if you don’t hold the naked lens next to your eye for extended periods of time, don’t sleep with it and if you break the glass you don’t snort the dust and just use it as a normal lens it’s completely safe. Another caviar is don’t leave and forget it attached to a digital camera for a long time since it will kill the sensor. I have a Konica Hexanon 50 1.4 that’s radioactive and it’s one of my favourite lenses to shoot with.

@EddyMaynard

5 ай бұрын

Interesting point about it damaging the sensor, is this true?! Never heard that but it would make sense to be honest

@PitlordWeedsmurph

4 ай бұрын

@@EddyMaynard To be honest, it’s kind of rare. There are so many people using these radioactive lenses for years on a digital body without even knowing. When I’m done with the lens and don’t plan on shooting more I take it out just to be safe.

Love the passion 🔥 some beaut photos

These lenses are amazing! I've pretty much got the full kit. Except a few. The 1.2 is good but the best ive tired on a vintage lens is a Konica Hexanon 57 AR 1.2. Its a amazing piece of glass!

Great video! Love the look of these images and agree that the lens flair doesn’t really fit into the pro or con list. Have you got any advice, or could do a video about manual focusing? It’s my main downfall when I’m shooting with my Pentax K1000 and I’d love to improve.

True, many of the old lenses were infused with Thorium as it handled light particles better, and at some point it was also used in viewfinder glass, it was safe in the lenses, but not in the viewfinders.

Id would love to get this lens and the Konica version but I have the Canon FD 55 f1.2 SSC and Nikkor 50mm f1.2 AIS and I am happy with those, they are great as well. Love the look.

I really like your setting and grading. I was going to say you might want to consider a pop filter for your microphone but then I realised i was hearing the bass best in the music, which sounds like a plosive!

I like thorium lenses. If you don't want to have the warmer yellow look. You can do a custom white balance with that lens and it clears right up. I don't own this one I might pick one up to compare it with the Konica 57mm f1.2 that I do own.

I have no problem shooting wide open and then stopped down, and combining the two for the best of each. If you're on a budget, pick up the Minolta 1.7 lens. You'll be knocked out by it. The 1.4's in 50, 55,and 58 are all creeping up. Maybe the 55 isn't a 1.4....

You might like the Tair 11A. 19 blades bokeh weapon.

One possible risk of radioactive lenses is that it might scramble the firmware/NAND of any devices sitting close enough to it if stored at close proximity for extended periods of time, via bit flips (similar to what cosmic rays can do to RAM without ECC). Don't leave them attached to any modern electronic hardware when not in use - store them away from any devices with firmware, and any solid state storage. I strongly suspect that storing a known radioactive Super Takumar 50/1.4 mounted to a Metabones adapter for a year or so messed up the firmware on the adapter. It had worked fine for years on my G7 and various lenses (including the Tak), but malfunctioned in dramatic ways as soon as I mounted it on a new G9 with a Canon 135mm f2. It crashed with random color pixels all over the screen that reminded me of 8 bit computer crashes. Firmware update fixed it right up, but as the G7 and G9 are close cousins as cameras go, the difference shouldn't be that extreme. So now I keep the Tak in its own container, and only have it in the bag when I know I'll be using it.

@omarassadi2455

23 күн бұрын

For what it's worth, I've mostly read research that says radiation, probably within reason, is barely harmful, if at all, to offline flash storage. The cosmic ray issue is much more of a problem when it comes to [online] non-ECC memory. Who knows, though. But personally, if firmware is involved, I would usually bet on the firmware itself being the source of evil -- I don't think I've ever used a system with proprietary firmware that did not behave pathologically and wasn't horrifically broken in one way or another.

Some early copies of this lens are radioactive, but most are not. Lenses with serial numbers starting with 200 through 255 (and possibly 256) may contain some radioactive elements made with thorium oxide in the glass. The only way to confirm is with a Geiger counter.

You are correct that the lens use a lens element that is radioactive, but it is by no means unique. The first use of a lens element using the radioactive Thorium element was first patenetd in the early 50s. Many of the high grade lenses of 50s, 60s and early 70s used Thorium, or even Lanthanum in the much earlier lenses. One of the most famous ones is the early Leica 50mm F2 Summicron, Many of the Canon FL lenses and the legendary Pentax 6X7 105mm F2.4 ( Takumar markings ) used Thorium. The Yellowing of the glass is due to the use of Thorium, but a prolonged exposure to a strong source of Ultraviolet C light should help clean it up a bit.

What isn't discussed is what happened to the camera company employees who worked with thorium.

Hold the phone, what camera body did you pair the lens with?

@EddyMaynard

Жыл бұрын

Sony a7iv! 😌

Idk why you say you can’t afford a large format camera. They can be had for around $300 with a lens. That’s about 70 more than a 50mm 1.2 in ok condition. Also the film isn’t that expensive unless you’re buying ULF or ultra large format. I shoot everything from 110 micro film to 4x5 large format and pretty much everything in between. 120 format in 6x6 is my preferred format. You can get great depth and separation and it’s very affordable.

No, the lens that is the closest to this is the Olympus OM-System G.Zuiko Auto-S 55mm f1.2 and the Olympus is much better. However, I have them both and like them both. I don't get the lens flare that you are getting with mine. Must me something in your lens.

LUCK REALLY REALLY NEW, WHERE DID YOU BUY IT?

@EddyMaynard

4 ай бұрын

ebay, from a japanese seller! (one of the ones that always put 'from JAPAN [exc ++++]' or something haha)

400 usd😢

@EddyMaynard

5 ай бұрын

Unfortunately yes, I was lucky to get a mint copy a bit cheaper than that. Id say it’s worth it though if you can get a clean one with no dust, haze or fungus. It will hold its value if you ever want to re-sell it, since it’s a very unique lens

@tridentroy

5 ай бұрын

@@EddyMaynard yes but I brought 55mm 1.7 MD

@EddyMaynard

5 ай бұрын

@@tridentroy 55 is a great lens! 😌 enjoy!

Nothing says photography like radioactive and contaminated for your art.

Chromatic aboration is nice, I like it. I kinda get it if clients don't want it - because clients are facktards. but I buy my lenses on character

that bokeh is so distracting tho