Seaport Village - X-Pro1 and 35mm f1.4 Lens

[Chris Dodkin]

Took a lunchtime wander through a local tourist hotspot in San Diego - Seaport Village.

Armed with the X-Pro1 and the 35mm lens - also a CPL filter which arrived yesterday, and proved useful as an ND filter when shooting wider apertures in sunlight (as well as being a polarizer of course).

Note: The lens hood on the 35mm lens makes rotating a filter a nightmare - you end up taking the hood off, rotating the filter to suit, then re-attaching the hood. - Pain in the rear!


Anyway - a few shots - all from in camera JPEG:

Giant Nutcracker at f1.8 in 'close up' mode

Reflection in sunglasses at f1.4 in 'close up' mode

Spanish/Mexican style tile at f2 in 'close up' mode

Eye eye Captain! Pirate at f2 in 'close up' mode

Balloon Man at f2.8

Heart in the tree bark at f4 in 'close up' mode

Millinery shop at f5.6 in 'close up' mode - note lack of moire pattern on the cap

Cactus on the cob at f2.8 in 'close up' mode

'King of beers' at f2 in 'close up' mode

 

[Brian Moore]

Very nice (and characteristic) set of Chris close-ups.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Great set, Chris. Love the cactus - took me a while to figure out what it was, which is fun.

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Thanks Brian and Rob - I did take some non close-up shots, but they just didn't have the same appeal to me as the close-up stuff.

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Based on using the Fuji lens hoods yesterday, I have placed an order for a vented metal hood for the 35mm and 18mm lens today, so we'll see how that works out,

Found a nice 52mm threaded metal filter designed for 'Leica Summicron' on EBAY - so hoping that will do the job and allow access to CPL etc.

 

[Pete Askew]

A very fruitful stroll there Chris. I do like these detail shots of yours and the X Pro-1 is certainly doing the job isn't it. So, is the plan to rotate the hood with the filter?

 

[Chris Dodkin]

That's step one Pete - however the hood will take a different filter size inside (62mm I think), so if I like the hood I'll get a new CPL and move on from there.