Lee Greatorex Photo/3D blog

50mm - Cobh

Pun intended! Inspired by June 2011 Black+White Photography Magazine runner up Imre Csokonyi. Happened to come across some vintage cases during a visit to the Cobh Heritage centre.

50mm 1.8

Unlike the inspiration I wanted to pick out the leathery colours as well as the texture (trying to work in more colour to my work).


I still do enjoy B+W though, I can see why it is used to bring out the textures more in leathers.

Shots taken June 13th Cobh around 8pm, Samyang 8mm.

Been a while since taking a photo of the moon. Think this is an improvement over the last one. Earlier today as well I took some photos around town with the Fisheye (will upload them here tomorrow).

Tamron 70-300mm (at 300mm) f6. Click for larger view!

My dad used to buy as many cameras/accessories from car boot sales as possible, usually picking up old box brownies or similar for about £5-10 each at most (giving me some of the duplicate or broken cameras he had). Along the way people tended to just give away the rest of the photo gear they had just to get rid of it.

After moving to Ireland I only managed to take 1-2 old camera bags with me (one of them containing a Bolex 8mm clockwork movie camera!). One of the bags has an old 35mm camera which needs some repairs and a lens which didn't fit it. the mystery lens fits my nikon though!!



The Marexar-CX 28-200 3.8 is a manual lens, the nikon doesn't recognize it (like the recent fisheye I bought) however it works fine in full manual mode. It has no lens cap and has taken a battering, nice heavy duty lens though looks like it could take a few more. From what I could tell the CX range was made between 84-94. Online reviews seem to be pretty positive about the lens! I was just surprised and happy it worked, I'm impressed with the results! Will give it more of a test soon. Here are the tests shots I took with it: (shots were from hand so may be a little motion blurred, ISO was quite high just to test it indoors)

I bought this a few days ago. A cheap (279 euros roughly) and cheerful fisheye which works well. On cameras below the d90 it won't recognise the lens so you need to run in manual mode and ideally get a light meter (otherwise a bit of trial and error is required).

I still need to get used to composing with such a wide angle/distorted view (usually I stick with my 50mm now or use the 70-300mm for wildlife work) but overall I'm very happy with it!