This Space for Rent

Hi there, I’m not actually commenting on the cat, but I’ll jump on the occasion. I was having a look at your modded cases gallery (I’m certainly stealing you the riveted-aluminium-angles idea by the way, it looks so slick), carefully examinating each picture. When it struck me : first, that bluish outline around out of focus edges. Then, you’ve got a Pentax *ist DS. Finally the exif data reporting f/0! You’re using some old lens! Aren’t you! Probably some fast 50mm. Maybe adapted from an obscure mount. God, I’m so relieved to see someone else using ancient gear in his day-to-day life. May Science be with you. Have a nice day. Oh, and thanks for the Discount thing. I heard reddit appreciates it.

I’ve got several old lenses of different types. My primary lens at the time I took the pictures of the glowy server case was a 5cm f1.2 smc k, but the front of the casing (the part that filters and hoods screw onto) managed to disassemble itself, so it’s been put aside to wait for me to either pay to repair it or to drill some access holes so I can screw it back together with the rest of the lens. These days I use a 5.5cm f1.8 super-tak, a couple of Soviet lenses (5cm f3.5 pancake, 4.1cm f2.8) and a Soligar 3.5-10.5cm f3.5 zoom – all screw mount, of course, and my other k-mount lenses (Cosina 7-30cm zoom – my only automatic lens – and lensbaby) sit around and gather dust while waiting for the f1.2 to be repaired.

It helps that the *istDS has terrible autofocus in anything other than the most absolutely sunny day. Even with my poor vision, I can focus in about as quickly as the camera does, and I don’t have the “crank out to infinity, then slowly wind down” fallback when something like a honeybee jumps out of view.