Photo Tour of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

I took an early morning stroll today through the world famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It is just across the Harvard Bridge, about a 30min walk or a 10min bike ride from me, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I thought I'd give everyone a photo tour of its high-tech campus.

The Stata Center, designed by Pritzker Prize architect Frank Gehry, opened in 2004. It is the home of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), and the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.



















MIT Media Lab, designed by Pritzker Price architect I.M. Pei (better known for the Louvre glass pyramids and the Bank of China tower in Hong Kong), open in 1985. It is home to host the List Visual Arts Center, the School of Architecture and Planning’s Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT), and MIT’s Program in Comparative Media Studies.



I noticed this bicycle repair station next to its entrance. Cool idea.



The Department of Chemical Engineering on the left, connected by a sky walk to MIT Biology.



Heading north on Ames St.





Up the road on Ames St. and Main St. is the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. They had a public gallery that displayed scanning electron microscope artworks.







Hope you guys enjoyed the photos. Check out the full-res versions here.

 

Thanks guys! Wish my Canon FD 20mm came in the mail before the shoot, but I think the 35mm held its own. Just gotta take a few dozen steps back haha


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Your 20mm on a 1.5x crop APS-C camera would yield a 30mm full-frame equivalent. The shots above are taken with a 35mm lens, so you will get a wider field of view.

If the Ultra Wide Angle converter will make your lens into a 15mm, that would be 22.5mm on a full-frame. This is very wide, good enough for most architectural shots imo.

So, you'll have no problems at all.

 

Yes, you're right. I literally went there at the crack of dawn so there was soft morning light. That's also why you don't see any people in the photos

 

I agree. Artistic controversy usually means breaking the mould and pushing the limits of our sensibilities.

Then again, I should take pictures of Boston's ghastly city hall (brutalist architecture). It looks like Hitler's bunker...

 

Totally, what a contrast!


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I was thinking the same thing when I was shooting at MIT, "boy, wouldn't it be nice if I had a tilt-shift lens so the buildings wouldn't be falling over in my photos?"

I thought about getting a medium-format Hasselblad lens with a tilt-shift adapter if I was more into architectural photos. The best part about the E-mount is that the possibilities are almost endless.

 

Wow, f/0.85? Speaking of huge aperture lenses, it reminded me of this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/281346516691?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT (Leica 90mm f/1.0 for $950). It is a lens for an X-ray machine, I thought about buying it and adapting it to the A7, then I came to my sense. Apparently, Leica made a 90mm f/1.0 Elcan-R with a regular camera mount for the US navy a few decades ago. That lens sold at auction for something ridiculous.