Jim (Markus), those photos you posted have such appealing grain, maybe I will try stand development indeed! Thanks for the tip on Ubuntu Studio.
Jim (Muller) thanks for the info on your experience with davinci. I am still taking baby steps with the video part, audio will be the next step. Lots of rabbit holes and time sinks, but I don't mind.
As Ray mentioned, the bright (yes, I turned up the brightness all the way in bright sun and it shows through) ZR 4-inch monitor is really nice. The other fun part is you can fill in the full name of the lens for each non-CPU lens # you enter info for. I don't remember that feature in the Zf (although they should be able to add it in the firmware). I prefer to document the MFNG lens as much as I can in the image metadata. So when I am really old and ornery I can at least identify which lens I used for which photo
Nice sunset (or sunrise?) on that water's edge. It makes me want to be there.
There are too many Jim's here now! Call me anything else you like (as long as it isn't late for breakfast).
Don't let me stop you from trying video.
AFAIK, neither OBS nor Resolve do any color or brightness/contrast modification though maybe they do and I just never looked. Video is just so much more demanding and memory-intense than single-shot photography: Every second of video is dozens of individual frames.
Scott's loons are marvelous. If I guess the location properly, last spring I took a bunch of pics of one of those loons sitting on a nest on the edge of that pond, a rare sight. But they weren't with MFNG so I can't post them here.
Samy and Ray, thank you for the kind words on the Loons. It was a very cold morning with several swimmers out of view to the left of the image. They commented on being somewhat numb when they got out of the water.
Scott
mp356 wrote:
Thanks Jim. It was taken at Echo Lake on a foggy morning. This one taken at the same time.
Scott
Gorgeous! btw - that's about as close as I ever get to loons. Sometimes many at a time, other times waiting while they feed along the shoreline, in canoes, row boats , speed boats, on wilderness lakes on an island in lake superior. They are the most skittish bird ever. But go to FM's nature forum, and they get so close you can see their pupils. Sackem-Frasem-Rasem
saph wrote:
Jim (Markus), those photos you posted have such appealing grain, maybe I will try stand development indeed! Thanks for the tip on Ubuntu Studio.
Jim (Muller) thanks for the info on your experience with davinci. I am still taking baby steps with the video part, audio will be the next step. Lots of rabbit holes and time sinks, but I don't mind.
As Ray mentioned, the bright (yes, I turned up the brightness all the way in bright sun and it shows through) ZR 4-inch monitor is really nice. The other fun part is you can fill in the full name of the lens for each non-CPU lens # you enter info for. I don't remember that feature in the Zf (although they should be able to add it in the firmware). I prefer to document the MFNG lens as much as I can in the image metadata. So when I am really old and ornery I can at least identify which lens I used for which photo ...Show more →
Zf has the feature, Samy. One of the few that on announcement had me thinking long and hard about it as a long-term purchase option. Then Nikon rolled it out to other cameras and I thought, "never mind"
pbraymond wrote:
That looks like nice color at the bridge, a very filmic look Serge. A Fuji sim or S5 magic?
Ray, it is the Fuji S5 with all settings set to standard, sharpening and NR off. I have played with the different film simulations and settings quite a bit but prefer the former.
lumenspixel wrote:
... If you consider it sharp to the borders prior f6,7 that triggers my attention.
No tests yet. You might want to look at this video (which someone posted earlier to this forum, sorry for the repeat but I can't find that post).
Put https: in front of this: www .youtube. com/watch?v=LinEzenQmgI and remove the spaces. When I put in just the link my browser doesn't like it.
The gentlemen being interviewed write a blog called The Thousand and One Nights which describes the development of various Nikkor lenses. The 35mm f/2.8 is described in this episode.
It says the "New Nikkor 35,, f/2.8", released in 1975 and which has 6 elements instead of 7, is better.
As for tests, I'm not sure what is important for you. When focused on, say, the center image of a row of distant trees or buildings, anything on the periphery will be further away. For the full width of a 35mm lens that makes the edge objects 12.4% further away. If the focus is set at or near near infinity so that the peripheral objects are good, the center objects will be closer and perhaps too close for that focus. I don't know if or how the lens is supposed to compensate for that. Perhaps the ideal focus is designed to cover a flat plane source in front of you rather than an equidistant arc. Closing the aperture makes that moot of course, but you want to be able to open it up. And what you consider landscape may not necessarily be a distant mountain range.
jimmuller wrote:
No tests yet. You might want to look at this video (which someone posted earlier to this forum, sorry for the repeat but I can't find that post).
Put https: in front of this: www .youtube. com/watch?v=LinEzenQmgI and remove the spaces. When I put in just the link my browser doesn't like it.
The gentlemen being interviewed write a blog called The Thousand and One Nights which describes the development of various Nikkor lenses. The 35mm f/2.8 is described in this episode.
It says the "New Nikkor 35,, f/2.8", released in 1975 and which has 6 elements instead of 7, is better.
As for tests, I'm not sure what is important for you. When focused on, say, the center image of a row of distant trees or buildings, anything on the periphery will be further away. For the full width of a 35mm lens that makes the edge objects 12.4% further away. If the focus is set at or near near infinity so that the peripheral objects are good, the center objects will be closer and perhaps too close for that focus. I don't know if or how the lens is supposed to compensate for that. Perhaps the ideal focus is designed to cover a flat plane source in front of you rather than an equidistant arc. Closing the aperture makes that moot of course, but you want to be able to open it up. And what you consider landscape may not necessarily be a distant mountain range.
Just musing on how to go about about this....Show more →
Very useful information. I knew about the Thousand and One Nights but will watch the video with interest.
If my understanding is correct this lens has some field curvature in landscape use. Which can work in favour or against you. I did not remember that they wrote that the subsequent 6 elements was better. I have always assumed that successive iterations should always demonstrate progress but that has not been the case with my copies (two in fact) of the last AIS 5 elements version.
Another note: I have used a little the 35 2,0 O lens and was not much interested in since it appeared to me inconsistent at infinity. After testing a little more I realised it was sharp from f4 but with wavy field curvature forcing you to close at f6,7 for landscape use but perfectly usable more open for three dimensional objects. I often need time to understand the quirks of a lens.
Thank you for your patience.
lumenspixel wrote:
And three more with the 35 2,0 O:
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Like Scott said, very nice.
You shot those with the Nikon 35mm f/2.8 on a Sony body? Anyway, I'm not sure why you'd be looking for a different 35mm, unless the landscape pics you want are different. Those pics are awesome.
