Showing posts with label Longding district. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Longding district. Show all posts

Friday, 15 September 2017

Industar-61 L/D 55mm f/2.8 lens review

Industar-61 L/D 55mm f/2.8 lens is an interesting lens. What I like the most about the lens firstly is it's small size. It looks very cute on my Olympus M/3. I am sucker for small sized lens since they are handy for me. Secondly, It's a sharp little Russian lens.

What I may not like is the inconsistent colour cast the lens gives at differing light condition. It's a handy little lens for everyday use for subjects you don't want to be very close to and be somewhat discreet.

Since it's a Russian lens, there are inconsistencies in the models as well. I've got few collections of Industar-61 for sale on my ebay account (lilac_may). I got them in lot from Ukraine. I personally serviced them for stiff focus and cleaned any remaining fungus and dust from the inner glass. I've seen that few of the lenses are sharper than others and few have more blueish cast than others.

On Olympus M4/3 it becomes 110mm telephoto lens.

Since I am in a remote place called Longding as mentioned in my earlier posts, my photographic events may look somewhat "has already been done and seen". Please excuse me for this. In coming days, I promise to share more variable sceneries.

Few samples from Industar-61 L/D 55mm f/2.8 lens (one wet day)
RCC building house amongst the thatched traditional houses. Economic differences can be seen in the house type and life style in Arunachal Pradesh. It was just noather foggy and wet day.

  
A child crying because his older sisters left him behind.

  
Wancho vegetable vendor

  
Wancho vegetable vendor. Rain or sun, they always come from distant villages to sell their products. The vegetables are cheap, sold in Rs.10 or Rs.20 categories here.

  
Two very young sisters selling their vegetables

  
A young boy mending the chicken shop

  
Mainland Indian labourers or labourers from Bangladesh are abundant here. The road condition is very poor in this region. 

  
A tree growing from the road of the craft-centre building. 



Wednesday, 13 September 2017

Street photography with Industar-69 28mm f2.8 lens on Olympus OM-D E-M5 II

Industar-69 28mm f2.8 lens is the cutest lens I've ever seen or used! It's so thin, a pan cake lens! The copy I have is sharp enough for everyday used though I have read on various blogs that the lens lack sharpness. I've fixed the lens for infinity by a simple operation followed by browsing online (I have not linked it because I don't remember where but if you are interested, you'll easily find after some Googling).
I am postedin a remote place called Longding which is place towards the India- Burma border. Here, you'll find Wancho people who were earlier well known head hunters. The Wancho people are creative in wood craftsmanship and are known for their various colourful patterns and bead works.

This is again not a technical lens review. Just a walk around photography I've done one day when I went shopping for vegetables in the market.
The lens is prone to vignetting and has swirly bokeh which some likes, some avoids.
All the photos were resized from the standard 16 Megapixels to 3 mMegapixels and some contrast was added on Photoshop before sharing.
 This one is a test photo taken at f2.8. It shows the swirly bokeh and vignetting.
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The below photography was done when I went to the market to get vegetables. All the photos are taken at aperture f5.6. I used a DIY lens hood to add to the contrast made of coke bottle which I will share in my next post.
 Abandoned hospital vehicle. I live in the medical colony as work as Psychologist here.

 Next door granny returning form the market.

 Cute boy in the bakery with pierced earlobe as is the customs here among the Wancho people.

 An astrologer from the mainland India predicting a shopkeeper's fate.

 Wancho vegetable vendor. Women of Arunachal Pradesh are very hard working and enterprising. Most ladies run their household by selling vegetables. 

 A vendor showing a beetle nut to a customer

 A man getting his hair trimmed at the barbers'

 It started raining while going back to my quarter. A cute cat resting behind a thatched house.