Iris flowers - Show your pics

[Michiel Schierbeek]

Thank you for your kind works Michiel and your beautiful picture. As far as I know they are not on ebay but Vuillerens castle has its own web shop where you can buy them:

http://www.jardindesiris.ch/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=37

Cheers
Peter

I was talking about the lens actually. It is a photoforum, remember:ROTFL:
I could not find one. I have Iris flowers in my garden in france but they
are still not blosseming.
greetings, Michiel

 

[petermcwerner]

I was talking about the lens actually

Michiel, Here a search that will bring up a Switars:

http://photography.shop.ebay.com/items/_W0QQLHQ5fPrefLocZ2QQ_dmdZ1QQ_dmptZCameraQ5fLensesQQ_sopZ1?_nkw=alpa+switar+&_sacat=625&_trksid=p3286.m270.l1313&_odkw=alpa+switar+-(robocop%2C+phi%2C+%22lapel+pin%22%2C+mexico%2C+jet%2C+omega%2C+dec%2C+bottle%2C+malt%2C+moda%2C+francovka%2C+sweater%2C+airline%2C+pilots%2C+knitwear%2C+cheese%2C+alpine%2C+franzbranntwein%2C+beer%2C+grinder%2C+eucerin%2C+bains%2C+aviation%2C+chalet%2C+watch)&_osacat=625

1) The 50/1.9 is the later, much improved version. Do not go for the 50/1.8 and make certain it is the MACRO version. I saw only two 1.9 Macros at prices near $1,500

2) Even more difficult to find than the lens is the adapter. They were made many years ago in Japan, I do not think the firm who made them still exists. I found a single lens with M adapter:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ALPA-KERN-MACRO-SWITAR-50mm-1-8-AR-w-LEICA-L-M-adapter_W0QQitemZ120395458431QQcmdZViewItemQQptZCamera_Lenses?hash=item1c0820e77f&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2|65%3A1|39%3A1|240%3A1318|301%3A1|293%3A1|294%3A50

but it is the 1.8 version. Unless the seller agrees to sell you the adapter alone (you can always try) you would have to buy th 1.8 plus adapter, a separate 1.9 and re-sell the 1.8 to have the best.

Note that the rangefinder coupling to the M usually does not work. I had the combination for years without being able to use it before buying the G1.

Hope this helps
Peter

 

[Michiel Schierbeek]

Thank you Peter,

This lens looks temting but (to) expensive and hard to adapt. I will stay allert, sometimes you run into things by surprise.
I did not know about these lenses and their connection to Alpa.
Thanks anyhow for looking into it.

Greetings, Michiel

 

[scho]

Some Siberian Blues and another "plain Jane". Taken with G1+Tachihara+homemade adapter back+Rodenstock APO Sironar-S 135mm f/5.6

 

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[Cindy Flood]

Found some Irises on the side of a country road.
G1 and Canon 50 f/1.2 ltm wide open