So. CAP Hollywood is coming up. And I'm pretty excited. I like videos. and I've been done with this documentary project a while. Oh, and about that. My group got an honorable mention. Yeah, that's cool. Proud of that. I think I'll try next year, but who knows? So for CAP Hollywood, I'm definitely going to put in work. For once. I loaf...too much. I really should try more. I could probably do okay in school. In preparation, I bought a new lens and a mic. I previously had no audio equipment/experience. It'll be something new. Maybe I can learn a bit in terms of audio effects for a certain character in our short story. I've never explored the depths of Adobe Audition.
The lens I got was an old Russian M42 screw mount for, I believe, Pentax cameras. I've been in the need for a 50 prime for a while, but didn't want to get the popular "nifty fifty" Canon 50mm f/1.8 because my sister already has it. No need to get the exact same lens. And I like to do my research, and eventually concluded to get the Super Takumar 50mm f/1.4. Quite a nice lens I must admit. Nike bokeh and what not. Not going to get into specifics. One interesting thing about this lens is that some of the glass elements contain Thorium-232. Now, Thorium is special, because it's radioactive. Boom. Whoa. After a bit of research, I found out it's ever so slightly radioactive, though. Had my family concerned for a moment there. Apparently, you would need to be exposed to it for 100,000 hours a year for it to reach the minimum dose linked to increased risk for cancer. There are a bit under 9,000 hours in a year. So, we're fine. The half-life is 14 billion years...So Thorium over time decays, and tints the glass a bit yellow. This can be fixed by exposure to sunlight or UV light. That's all the details I'll give. But it's a fantastic lens. Mic hasn't arrived yet. So until then, here are pics from the lens.
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