(noun) - A vanitas painting was a particular type of still life immensely popular in the Netherlands (and Paris, to a lesser extent), beginning in the 17th century.The phrase comes to us courtesy of a Biblical passage in Ecclesiastes, in which the Hebrew word hevel was incorrectly taken to mean vanity of vanities. vanitas painting, while possibly containing lovely objects, always included some reference to man's mortality-most often a human skull (with or without other bones), but also by way of burning candles, soap bubbles or decaying flowers.
Turn the camera off and remove the cap that covers the lens mount on the front of the camera. Remove the cap that covers the back of the lens. Hold the lens in front of the camera so that the little white dot on the lens aligns with the matching dot on the camera body.
1 Place your camera at a certain distance, depending on the focal length of the lens. 2  Michael Tapes has a neat â Distance Tool â on his website that you can use to calculate the proper distance. 3  For example, for the Nikon 50mm f/1.4G lens, the recommended distance between LensAlign and the camera is roughly 4 feet. have a Nikkor 35mm 1.4 manual focus that recently took apart and there is an adjustment screw on the side which appears to adjust or calibrate the distance marks to the lens right or left. Would an auto focus lens have this same adjustment.