Wednesday, October 3, 2012

old houses and radioactivity

            I've returned today to the woods, to shoot some abandoned house that I had explored some nights ago with with my friends. Also was a chance to test my new Asahi Pentax 1.8/55 lens. 
           The building is surrounded by woods, deserted areas and a residential complex for old people that seemed to completely ignore me while jumping fences and walls.
           Interesting fact that I've read about this lens is about its radioactivity. It's deadly good. It seems that the use of thorium oxide allow to minimize chromatic aberrations while utilizing lens of lower curvature that are cheaper to produce. However I hope that at least in this case, the radiation is barely strong enough to penetrate my skin, although it says that some models can radiate doses close to a typical chest x-ray.