Nice images Juan and Collin!

Love seeing your images Michiel - feels like I'm on vacation!

I usually can’t wait for autumn and all the changes that happen, be it colours, smells, temperatures – all good. But another big reason for my love of the season is the shapes of trees that become evident and which have been hiding behind a clothing of leaves all summer, making their shapes smoothed over and relatively boring. Most trees of a certain species all look very similar when clothed in leaves, but strip that layer away and what is revealed is a beautiful and unique creation.

Lovely images.

I received the Richard Freniac grip for the DP2 M today, and what a lovely piece of work it is. The perspective I took the image from makes the grip look slightly deeper than it is; when you look from the top of the camera, its thickness at the highest point is less than half the lens height.

It transforms the camera, for me. See here:

FYI to all DP2M owners: BHPhoto has BP-41 batteries in stock again. I just ordered two more. I've been checking their website every day.

My VF-21 viewfinder is still backordered though.

Just received and installed the beautifully made grip by Richard Freniac myself. Superb!

Is it just me or does this image have some 3D-ishness to it?

One more pic.


_SDI0208 por John Loves, en Flickr

Hi,
Can you help me get rid of this kind of contamination?
How do i prevent this or post process it so that its eliminated.
These are shot with vivid/shade, sunlight/shade, neutral/shade and neutral/auto...

The Camera Store just posted a field test of the Merrill:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3VjyHQiqdE

Chris(from The Camera Store in Calgary) called the camera "crap". I output a couple of 40" prints for our Sigma rep here in Alberta to take down for Chris to see. Apparently with the prints on the table there was little left for him to complain about! ) Here is what I sent down:

Exquisite, Collin; the top one's sublime. Folk find it easier (and 'edgier') to complain/criticise than to praise or constructively criticise. I ignore it usually; your solution is the best!

Thanks Kit. I Love looking at prints from this camera, and in the end that's what really matters to me about what I shoot.

Yeah, the DP Merrills are the sort of tools that separate the boys from the men!

Tariq: as a hard-core printer (and the inventor of the 50% viewing-on-screen-to-see-how-the-print-will-look method!), I am sure you appreciate the DP2M files at least as much as others to, and probably more.

I love mine.

Black and whites are really nice. I converted an earlier image and it looks good. both for comparison here:

Tariq Gibran wrote:
Yeah, the DP Merrills are the sort of tools that separate the boys from the men!

How do you mean

Kit Laughlin wrote:
Exquisite, Collin; the top one's sublime. Folk find it easier (and 'edgier') to complain/criticise than to praise or constructively criticise. I ignore it usually; your solution is the best!


+1
Nice work!

Collin; nice work and a nice way to handle it. I find the DP Merrill cameras very interesting.

How is Red Deer nowadays? I haven't been there in a few years but I have friends who grew up there and still have family there. Harsh winter in Alberta this year?

sculptormic wrote:
Tariq Gibran wrote:
Yeah, the DP Merrills are the sort of tools that separate the boys from the men!

How do you mean


Just in reference to the whining by Chris in The Camera Store video review posted above. I know a lot of that was him just playing devils advocate, but it's just funny - and annoying- to hear all the minor complaints given the ultimate image quality the DP Merrill's are capable of at base ISO in the right hands.

By the way, there is a rumor of a FF Foveon coming next year. Given that the DP Merrills surpass conventional bayer FF 24MP sensors and are very close to the best 36MP sensors at base ISO, a FF Foveon could be amazing.

http://photorumors.com/2012/12/22/impress-magazine-2013-predictions-new-foveon-x-trans-sensors-nex-camera-all-full-frame/#more-36650

Kit Laughlin wrote:
Tariq: as a hard-core printer (and the inventor of the 50% viewing-on-screen-to-see-how-the-print-will-look method!), I am sure you appreciate the DP2M files at least as much as others to, and probably more.

I love mine.

Ha ha, thanks...though I can't claim to be the inventor as a friend showed me that 50% trick.