YOU JUST MIGHT FIND....
YOU GET WHAT YOU NEEEEEED
AWWW YEAH.
- THE ROLLING STONES
Once again I asked and I received.
So I used to have this amazing macro lens back in the day...around 2002 for my NIKON 5000 the grandfather/grandmother of my NIKON 8400 which is what I use now for work and art. Anyways long story short I had this macro lens and it rocked. It had major barrel distortion(bad lens) but i didn't care. Because pictures woudl come out simply amazing...
Like this one...
see all the side distortion? its not suppossed to be there.
So when i sold the 5000 i sold the lens and got the 5400 and a new set of lenses. the new lens had less distortion and took away most of the fun but it was still pretty cool. I sold that one and i got the 8400. When I got the new lens...
NO DISTORTION.
Like at all.
Like nothing.
I almost cried. I emailed the guy I had sold my first camera to and got no response. I scoured the internet to no avail. The lens was gone.
I remember telling many people my sadness about my long lost lens in the past year.
then my prayers were answered very quietly. ask and the universe listens...i swear it does.......So the day before I am telling my coworker about my trauma....
(The universe must have been like "I am sick of this girl's story already lets give her a lens" LOL)
and the next day after that I got my medium format pictures. So i remembered that my brothers wife still had a bunch of camera stuff left from the sale of old man's stuff who we shall now call the
photography angel (cause this man's passing away and leaving his collection of cameras and lenses has been nothing but a gift to my life)
So I go over and we are looking for a light meter for the rolleiflex and my brothers girl says "look there is a lens here maybe you can use. Its called a micro or something like that." I read and i am like "macro. Oh yeah these are cool." and that's it I really didn't think anything of it.
I take it and I tell her "yeah let me see if it fits my camera at home. Prob not but we'll see...never hurts to try."
When I get home and put it on the camera I almost had an orgasm. I couldn't believe it. THE LENS I LOST for 3 years. It wasn't the same brand but it has the same distortion. It actually fits my lens adapter. (i don't use an SLR)
So here are the pictures I took today.
remember ask and you might not get everything you want but fuck it...
YOU GET WHAT YOU NEED. and thats good enough in my book!
