First Shot With Night Owl Lens

[rpcrowe]

The Night Owl is a 75mm f/1.7 lens designed for a surveillance camera which I adapted to my Sony A6500 using an M-42 to E-mount "dumb" adapter.



I think that this lens could be a fairly nice portrait glass - especially for female portraits. I like the way that it rendered Stella's face and I think hat i might be quite flattering to human females.

It is certainly inexpensive! I paid less than $45 USD for the lens and adapter with shipping. The lens was new

The unique thing about this lens is that it doesn't have a diaphragm. It is f/1.7 and cannot be stopped down. I have ND filters that I can use. Focusing the lens with the A6500 is quite easy because of the aid of Focus Peaking.

I have three photo shoots scheduled for the next two weekends during which I plan to do a lot of informal portraiture using the A6500 with the native Sony 50mm f/1.8 OSS lens, with the Night Owl, with the Russian 58mm Helios and with a Canon 85mm f/1.8 with MC-11 adapter.

[Shadowman]

Nice, it gives a miniature effect.

[Ken MT]

Do you mean the dog?

[Shadowman]

Do you mean the dog?

Ken,

Were you referencing Richard or me?

[Ken MT]

The dog

[rpcrowe]

I would expect that the impression is given by the abrupt drop off in DOF due to the 75mm lens at f/1.8 shot relatively close to the dog!