Wilson's Promontory- birds

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Super-Takumar 135mm f/3.5 with a short extension tube, uncropped
Subject to lens distance: ~2m





The bulu-test

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"Albert mentioned that the test for a lens' sharpness would be the bulu-test, where you see if the sensor is capable of resolving the individual strands of pubic/facial or head hair." - from tanyeehou.blogspot.com

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Super-Takumar 135mm f/3.5





"Shit in my camera bag, and you'd wish I was never born."

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Super-Takumar 135mm f/3.5

Interestingly, we are starting to see some JPEG compression artefacts. The sharp boundary between the subject in focus and the bland, defocused background causes a boundary layer of stray pixels to adopt the colours of the subject.