Pickles

38 Pickles 

I think the dog is named Pickles, but I heard the little girl in this photo call it a different name just the other day. Of course, I am not sure, it may have been a different dog. 

This photo was made with a medium format Hasselblad lens. It is a 150mm Carl Zeiss Sonnar f4. It is huge on my SONY 7r. I have a Bellows lens shade for it, but I do not use it much and I can only imagine using it with the camera on a tripod. I also have a small aluminum shade and a focus handle for this lens.

It is really an odd look for a digital camera and one that I truly love. One aspect of this odd look is the adapter. Rather than a telescope style where the objective lens is the largest and the cone gets smaller toward the camera. This lens has a larger base, so the widest point is in the middle and the adapter creates a bulky middle of the lens that narrows at both ends.

The adaptor also has a tripod mount that is essential for the unbalanced look of the lens on a small camera body and not a boxy Hasselblad. I don’t really know what other photographers think of it, but I do believe it is beautiful.

I think that the basics are still the same using a medium format lens. Clearly, the sensor shape is different, but I believe because of the distance to the sensor, the aperture is generally correct (f4) even though the lens was created for a larger format. Likewise, the focal distance seems correct, it generally matches the focal range on the body of the lens.

I made this photo with this Hasselblad lens built in either 1958 to 1961 if it was made in East Germany; or 1969 to 1971 if it was made in West Germany. I believe it is a West German lens because it does not say. There is the Hasselblad brand on the lens barrel so I feel that it is a West German product. The serial number is duplicated by the east and west.

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