Grenache wrote:
Looks like you and the 85 are doing fine, Bob. Lots of drama in the sky. Looks like it is on fire.
Meant to tell you - not that I have seen you shoot IR, but that lens has no hot spot when shooting infrared. A rare feature in such a wide aperture lens. Not sure if that is something that Contax worked on deliberately or not, but it is a nice side effect either way.
Happy holidays, all.
Jim
Yes, things are coming together nicely for me with this lens. I need to work on some 3D scenes more but I'm having fun just shooting what's before me. Good to know about the IR. I should slap the lens on my old 20D which was converted for IR only. I need to see if I have a battery that still works!
R.Young wrote:
Ah ok. I quite welcome auto aperture right now, photography can be difficult enough without stop down metering, I must be wasting a lot of my shutter life by chimping as much as I have to
What is difficult about stop down metering?
Concerning the shutter lifetime, I doubt that I will ever reach the end of it before buying a new digital camera.
I use a focus chip which not only records maximum aperture, but also lets you select the aperture you shoot at so you can log your exif properly. This means shooting in full manual, focusing wide open, stopping down, setting the shutter speed then setting the aperture on camera then taking the photo. Fine for most types of shot. But annoying if I'm rushing for example in the rain or when the midges are out in Scotland. Not to mention trying to get a photo of the girlfriend before she gets impatient. It's a good excuse to shoot wide open though!
Here's a experimentally processed shot. It is likely to be the three-masted Schooner gaff-ridged "Linden" from Swedish speaking Åland in Finland. Here visible at the horizon in the outer south part of the Stockholm archipelago. Shot in an evening by end of summer. Original shot is kind of boring, tried to make it more interesting. CY85.
Definitely an interesting shot. I had to look at it a couple of times which says that it has interest. I like the effect.
Speaking of the CY85, I've been playing with my new lens acquired from Granache a few weeks ago. I've been trying to keep this lens on the camera exclusively and find that this is not a problem!
Thanks Bob and nice imagery yourself. I think that's a good way to make use of something recognizable good that one feels dont get enought attention: glue it on the cam for a week or two :-)
Carsten, you just take a vertical stripe and multiply it. Then use a mask to bring back the ship and then play with transparency. Very simple but I was looking for more of a tranquility feel than you made out of it.
When I recently bought the CY85/1.4 (EOS converted), I was told it's a great lens for IR. I've always loved IR photography and even converted a Canon 20D to iR only via Life Pixels many years ago. Well I decided to charge up the old BP511s and see what the CY85 would do on the 20D.
Now, these are not necessarily stellar images in their own right but there's definitely a sharpness and perhaps a 3D look on one or two that I might experiment with a better composition to really test this out. The shot of the picnic table was taken at f/2.8, the rest at either f/4 or f/5.6. Too early to tell but if this lens is a hit, I might have to look around for a better IR camera!
I had guessed that. How did you add the "speed"?
