Spider by Mawz, on Flickr
NEX-7, Nikkor 85mm f3.5 DX VR Micro

Playing around with Sony 30mm macro.

Top of fire hydrant by bcaslis, on Flickr>

Wonderful pictures and so much talent here! On my daily way to the bakery, sometimes I take the cut over the cemetary. As today.

I've had my 7 for a couple of weeks. Plasticmotif sent me a MD 50 1.4 which I took to an abandoned house today. I'm sure they'll be a little controversial but I love the lens.

The two of the baby doll head are cropped but otherwise monochrome jpegs right out of the camera.





A bit of sharpening for the window using the raw file.

where'd the other .3 aperture go? (1.4 :P )

plasticmotif wrote:
where'd the other .3 aperture go? (1.4 :P )

Fixed it, what can I say? I'm a moreon..

And thanks again for that beauty...

m lux 35mm pre asph, inappropriately shot wide open:

sebboh wrote:
m lux 35mm pre asph, inappropriately shot wide open:

new toy? looking forward to your work with it

This is a bit of a cheeky post

M8 with Vario-Sonnar 28-85, just cos I could!

I reckon this post has potential for belonging to three threads in the Alt forum

amazing pictures from so may people on here and particularly like Philip Reve's wide angle images - the portrait from taran is beautiful

Nikkor 50mm f1.8

Phillip Reeve wrote:
sebboh wrote:
m lux 35mm pre asph, inappropriately shot wide open:

new toy? looking forward to your work with it


sort of, brad was nice enough to let me borrow his. it is awesomely tiny, a few more wide open:





and one at f/8:

@seb, that is a wonderful dreaminess, on the lux, congratulations on your purchase.

@philip reeve, I am enjoying the winter landscapes you are making with the Heliar, I can almost feel the cold.

New toy, 58mm Voigt SLII"N"... quite an amazing little beastie, rocks on NEX-7.


IMG_2049 by artistwithlight, on Flickr
Zelenpol half case, JM soft release "rainbow", Ciesta leather finger strap,Voigt 58mm SLII"N"

Obviously, my 7 is more stylish than I am

and a photo with the voigt @2.8...

delray 2.9.135150 by artistwithlight, on Flickr

From last year's Cherry Blossoms Festival in DC, nex 5n w C/Y 85mm 1.4, wide open (double post from Zeiss thread):

More from last year's Cherry Blossoms Festival in DC, CV 50mm f/1.1 wide open with nex 5-n:

W/ the lowly SEL16F28 and ultra-wide adapter, on the 7:


DSC06251.jpg by Taylor Sherman, on Flickr

Derek, I do enjoy the rendering of the Luxes wide open and/or close to. The OOF is so very Leica-ish

Phillip, great work with the CV 15!

Jacob D wrote:
Derek, I do enjoy the rendering of the Luxes wide open and/or close to. The OOF is so very Leica-ish


me too, it's quite a unique look that i've always been fond of.

i'm still getting a handle on how the lens performs – it seems to have very little change in exposure or dof stopping down from f/1.4 to f/2, rather the glow just changes a bit. it does have significant focus shift at medium distances. i've been surprised to find out that it's actually pretty sharp wide open at infinity across the frame with none of the field curvature issues that the 40 cron has (at least on aps-c ). at near and medium distances sharpness seems to drop off a cliff outside the central third. at some point i'll have to compare it to the 40 cron and c/y 35/1.4 but my initial impression is that it has a very different draw than both. the lux stronger SA that doesn't go away until the lens is stopped down considerably more than the other two would need to be. it also never seems as bleedingly sharp as the other two centrally though that may be more of a contrast thing than a resolution thing. on the other hand it seems much better behaved across the frame than either of the other two and is thus probably the best landscape lens of the group.

anyway, here is the same shot i posted earlier except at f/1.4 instead of f/8:

taran wrote:
@seb, that is a wonderful dreaminess, on the lux, congratulations on your purchase.

@philip reeve, I am enjoying the winter landscapes you are making with the Heliar, I can almost feel the cold.

New toy, 58mm Voigt SLII"N"... quite an amazing little beastie, rocks on NEX-7.


IMG_2049 by artistwithlight, on Flickr
Zelenpol half case, JM soft release "rainbow", Ciesta leather finger strap,Voigt 58mm SLII"N"

Obviously, my 7 is more stylish than I am

and a photo with the voigt @2.8...

delray 2.9.135150 by artistwithlight, on Flickr



Oh where, oh where did you find that soft release?

Nex 7 with the Summicron 50 R, both