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p.223 #1 · Alternative Image Thread 3

5D, Zuiko 40/f2

I have done a couple of b+w conversions.

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Nov 07, 2009 at 09:11 PM

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85/1.2 SSC

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Nov 08, 2009 at 07:12 AM

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p.223 #3 · Alternative Image Thread 3

Nice shot's everyone, and thanks for the nice comments...

Nov 08, 2009 at 10:19 AM

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Canon s90

Nov 08, 2009 at 11:00 AM

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p.223 #5 · Alternative Image Thread 3

Nice one spyro, I saw it on your flickr earlier.

What's been your impression of the s90 so far for street shooting?
I'm looking at getting one for precisely that so I figure your opinions are going to be the most relevant -as in speed & useablity NOT IQ is the primary concern

cheers

Nov 08, 2009 at 12:03 PM

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p.223 #6 · Alternative Image Thread 3

Nice shots Leon and Spyro. Funny, I tried a s90 and was disappointed with the IQ. I felt the gap with Oly Pen and Pana GF1 was too large and steered me in that direction.

Nov 08, 2009 at 12:31 PM

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p.223 #7 · Alternative Image Thread 3

Nice mood in that shot Spyro.

Thanks Philber. I've been searching for a capable PnS for the occasions a 5D is intrusive/inconvenient. Can you elaborate on why S90 disappoints you?

Nov 08, 2009 at 12:49 PM

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Playing outside few nights ago with my Super Tak 55/1.8:

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Nov 08, 2009 at 01:47 PM

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p.223 #9 · Alternative Image Thread 3

Leon, it was not disapppointing per se, as if it were "bad". I just felt that the performance of the micro 4/3 was so much better as to justify the price difference and then some. That is a personal judgement depending among others parameters on what size/weight/cost is deemed acceptable for a "small" system.
From memory, the key differences were colour, contrast and absence of visible defects (distortion, CA). I tried the Pen and GF1 with a prime 20mm f:1.7

Nov 08, 2009 at 02:36 PM

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p.223 #10 · Alternative Image Thread 3

I went for a walk with the kids and dog yesterday. My wife had the 5D, shooting Christmas portraits all day, so I brought along my new-to-me beater 10D that I picked up recently for cheap. Had the Rokkor 58/1.2 and FD 35/2 with me.

One from the Rokkor:

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A few from the FD 35/2:

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Nov 08, 2009 at 04:48 PM

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Stunning colours Paul, we don't get an Autumn like that in Australia, must be a magical time of year especially for kids (and photographers).

Nov 08, 2009 at 05:27 PM

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Indeed. My favourite time of year. I don't know what's best about the leaves; the colour, the sound or the smell

Nov 08, 2009 at 05:43 PM

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p.223 #13 · Alternative Image Thread 3

Zuiko 24/2.8

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Nov 08, 2009 at 06:02 PM

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New bridge here in Waterford, known locally as 'The Cat Flap'.

Oly Zuiko 55mm ƒ1.2 @ƒ5.6 20sec 5DMKII ISO 320. Some nice short star trails in the original.

Nov 08, 2009 at 06:55 PM

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Excellent, Ronan!
Nice symmetry and reflection.

Nov 08, 2009 at 07:09 PM

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Some wonderful stuff on this page! Dmitri, great tonality on that smoke shot. Paul, love the fall colors. Seems like we're a bit further along in Montreal - hardly any leaves remaining. Ronan, the symmetry really makes that shot a looker.

Two from today's playground visit with my 2 year old.

GF1 and Summicron-R 90/2

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GF1 and Nikkor E 50/1.8

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Nov 08, 2009 at 08:17 PM

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p.223 #17 · Alternative Image Thread 3

Ronan ... Sweet !!

Nov 08, 2009 at 08:21 PM

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M8 + Voigtländer 28/2:

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I'm really impressed with the very low distortion of this lens! Of course it'll be worse on FF, but probably still very good. The last one is corrected for distortion, but the second is not! Those are at f/2.8, while I don't remember aperture for the first shot. Probably f/2.8-4.

Nov 08, 2009 at 09:16 PM

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p.223 #19 · Alternative Image Thread 3

Empire - Gotta ask, what's going on in this picture? Controlled burn?

Nov 08, 2009 at 11:12 PM

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Cheers guys, greatly appreciated.

Also wondering is it a bush fire or a controlled burn there. I know Summer in Australia can often bring bad fires.

Nov 09, 2009 at 12:36 AM

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Empire wrote:
Nice one spyro, I saw it on your flickr earlier.

What's been your impression of the s90 so far for street shooting?
I'm looking at getting one for precisely that so I figure your opinions are going to be the most relevant -as in speed & useablity NOT IQ is the primary concern

cheers

Thanks mate

Sorry I just noticed your question just then. The s90 for street... well its crap in many ways. Its a canon lens, therefore you get a lot of red/blue CA (the correctable kind though). Also you get extreme barrel distortion in the wide end in raw, which has forced me to shoot jpegs to benefit from the in-camera lens and noise correction (which are both very good). Noise corrected jpegs are good up to 1600 in colour and 3200 in B&W, I havent managed to perform such good noise correction from a raw file in post. The 28mm lens in the 4:3 native format is more like 30mm wide in 3:2 format which looks more like 32-33mm after the camera has finished chopping the barrel distorted corners, so keep that in mind too. The photo I posted is supposed to be 28mm to give you an idea. The camera is responsive enough when prefocused. However sometimes even with every useless feature switched off (IS, AF/servo AF, soom-screen MF, i-contrast, blink detection and other stuff that I have no clue what they are), the camera simply doesnt take take the photo immediately but 1-2 seconds after you press the button. No idea what is causing this but its a pain in the street. Thankfully it doesnt happen very often but it does cost me a couple of photos every now and then. Writing to card seems slower than the LX3 too. Another "fault" is that my autoiso doesnt go higher than 800 no matter what, the camera prefers to take a dark photo than bump auto iso to 1600-3200. Maybe I have a faulty unit but it doesnt bother me enough to have it checked.

However: the camera fits in a pant pocket, doesnt need a lens cap, the lens is very sharp even at f2 and it does usable ISO3200. Cant beat this. I've also bought the external flash which can be triggered wirelessly from the built-in flash and it works perfectly.

Nov 09, 2009 at 04:57 AM

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p.223 #22 · Alternative Image Thread 3

Just like Canon's AUTO ISO on the 5D Mark II, in M and Tv it's still broken, stops at ISO400... Canon call this a feature

Enjoying the S90 then Spyro? The Ikon still getting some use?

Nov 09, 2009 at 05:27 AM

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Ronan O Keeffe wrote:
Cheers guys, greatly appreciated.

Also wondering is it a bush fire or a controlled burn there. I know Summer in Australia can often bring bad fires.

This was in a wetland area, the fire literally burned across water through the reeds. I think it was kids playing with matches out in the dry reeds that caused it and boy it was fierce and fast. I started off shooting right next to it from a dirt track track and it moved ahead faster than I could run. It was a high wind day and the dead reeds are extraordinarily flammable. The fire did come quite close to a suburb but thankfully no harm came of it unless you count the hunreds of hairs on my arm that sacrificed themselves for a closer perspective

You can have a look at the series of pictures here http://www.flickr.com/photos/thelegionofmachines/sets/72157622288081704/

Spyro, thanks for the info. Sounds pretty well right for me

although, im strapped so i'l be sticking with the 35RD untill next year :b The

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Nov 09, 2009 at 08:06 AM

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p.223 #24 · Alternative Image Thread 3

D700 + 105 2.5 AIS @ 2.8.

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Nov 09, 2009 at 12:20 PM

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thrice wrote:
Just like Canon's AUTO ISO on the 5D Mark II, in M and Tv it's still broken, stops at ISO400... Canon call this a feature

Lol idiots...

thrice wrote:Enjoying the S90 then Spyro? The Ikon still getting some use?

Sold on ebay, shipped today, thankfully no significant financial losses

35mm RF is not good for my fast shooting, now I know it for sure. I much prefer my Hexar AF. I've ordered a mamiya 6 for slow shooting, I want to try some square.

This is from today, s90 again:

Nov 09, 2009 at 12:37 PM


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