On Leighton’s brocolli shot a couple pages back… when I first looked at it I thought it was seaweed and barnacle covered rocks. My wife said the same thing. But we live near the coast in Maine where that is a common sight. Maine has large broccoli fields, but they are in northern Maine in what was traditionally potato country. I haven’t been there in many years.
GeorgeBo wrote:
Ok, something a little different from me. Maybe the lack of sleep
Southern Va barn fisheye this morning. Lightroom on iPad
Fisheye-NIKKOR Auto 8mm f/2.8
Always love your fisheye shots, George: This one looks like a hand-woven basket!
I find visualizing the shot challenging enough with my rectilinear super-wides (18/2.8D & Voigtländer 15/4.5 Heliar), and the thought of trying to think "yeah, super-wide, AND fisheye projection" intimidates me. As a result I never considered getting a fisheye (well, aside from some Technology Lust for the OP 10/5.6): It doesn't help that the vast majority of sample photos Nikon used to use for advertising their fisheyes were cliché compositions, nowhere near as interesting you seem to come up with. Again, great work, George!
grantgoodes wrote:
Always love your fisheye shots, George: This one looks like a hand-woven basket!
I find visualizing the shot challenging enough with my rectilinear super-wides (18/2.8D & Voigtländer 15/4.5 Heliar), and the thought of trying to think "yeah, super-wide, AND fisheye projection" intimidates me. As a result I never considered getting a fisheye (well, aside from some Technology Lust for the OP 10/5.6): It doesn't help that the vast majority of sample photos Nikon used to use for advertising their fisheyes were cliché compositions, nowhere near as interesting you seem to come up with. Again, great work, George!
jbouchard wrote:
On Leighton’s brocolli shot a couple pages back… when I first looked at it I thought it was seaweed and barnacle covered rocks. My wife said the same thing. But we live near the coast in Maine where that is a common sight. Maine has large broccoli fields, but they are in northern Maine in what was traditionally potato country. I haven’t been there in many years.
Knowing the size of the broccoli these would make gigantic barnacles.
leighton w wrote:
Thanks for sharing these Doug. The old Nikkor held up extremely well. All the 50mm HC images on this thread always look good to me. I have thought about getting one many times.
All of the Manual focus 50mm 2.0 F lenses are excellent, the 1.8s too. Does not surprise me.
rafaelcasd wrote:
All of the Manual focus 50mm 2.0 F lenses are excellent, the 1.8s too. Does not surprise me.
I think I noticed how good the 50/2 HC was when you shared images of the car show you frequented. I noticed the sharpness and the separation you got from it.
saph wrote:
Phong, the glass in my copy is very yellow. My understanding is that's from a radioactive element in the glass. I haven't used it in a while, but I don't remember it being soft.
Samy, your are right in that samples are better than opinion, All the 35mm 1.4 are very sharp at 1.4 but if you have really bright and dark areas, they will show some glow in the image. My sharpest 35mm 1.4 is the N, and I have a sample of all of them.
As far as the yellowing due to the Thorium element, in these days of electronic sensors, it is more of a feature for interesting colors than a problem.
The N version will play with sunset light and can be processed in interesting ways, or made to look normal. No glow here at 1.4 as there was no bright light
Thanks Scott. I will give that shot a try when I am back there next Friday night/Saturday
George
mp356 wrote:
Nice use of the fisheye George. My mind saw your image and then thought what would that wagon wheel look like centered in a fisheye view.
Scott
saph wrote:
Phong, the glass in my copy is very yellow. My understanding is that's from a radioactive element in the glass. I haven't used it in a while, but I don't remember it being soft.
