nex-7 with leica-r 60mm macro

http://sonyalphanex.blogspot.com/2013/02/sony-nex-7-with-leica-60mm-macro.html

photoomaha wrote:
Adam, I like your choice for composition with this. How do you feel the 24 1.8 performs? I am trying to decide between that and the canon 24 f2 FD. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

I absolutely love the 24. But I always give the caveat that the 24 has the classic Sonnar rendering. This is what I love about it, preferring the Sonnar's smoother look to the more in your face Planar/Distagon look that is what people today associate with Zeiss. Half my current lenses are Sonnar's so you can probably guess I like them (The 24/1.8, Nikon's LTM 50/1.4 S.C is a clone and Sony's 85/2.8 SAM is a direct copy of the C/Y 85/2.8 Sonnar, my other current lenses are a CV 35/2.5, Nikkor 50/1.8 AI and 300/4.5 AI'D)

The 24 is very sharp in the centre even wide open, if stopped down it gets superbly sharp across the frame. Good microcontrast, but not to the Planar/Distagon level. Colour is excellent, but has the ZA signature which is more akin to the Hassy Zeiss look than to the ZE/ZF, G or C/Y looks.

After all the angry chattering, scrambling, fence climbing, running, jumping, and barking were done, all parties retreated to relative safety, exhausted, but alert and ready for the next round.

With the Minolta 17/4 @ f/5.6.

been away for a while and it seems i've missed a ton of beautiful shots.

a few from my vacation:

sony 16mm showing i should really make a corner shift correction profile for it:





rokkor 58/1.2:



leica R 350/4.8:

This is from about a month ago. The people on the bench are my friends, and I took this while we were waiting for others to catch up.

Taken with NEX 5n and 16mm 2.8


USS Torsk in Baltimore by DannyLamNYC, on Flickr

@sebboh, I think the 16mm looks great in a Kubrickian "Shining" sort of way. NIce set. +1 on the great shots in the last page or so.

300mm Ai-s Nikkor 4.5 (cheap), pk-13 extension ring. Not great reproduction ratio, but the working distance is ridiculous. You can shoot skittish moths and butterflies etc. @f8 no flash, ISO 400.


lox 2.28.130202 by artistwithlight, on Flickr


lox 2.28.130086 by artistwithlight, on Flickr

Canon FDn 24/2.8 @ f8, 30sec:


Pylon by specularist, on Flickr

FDn 35/2 @ f8, 30sec:


Marina Power Station, Cork by specularist, on Flickr

Arizona
NEX-7 & Elmarit M 28

The Monarch by Mawz, on Flickr
NEX-7, Sony 85/2.8 SAM

I really love this combo, compact, great IQ, close focusing and cheap (the lens that is).

Nice, crisp photo Mawz!

NEX-7 + Tokina 300mm AT-X f2.8 SD


SH_020313_DSC00122 by srhphoto, on Flickr

Simon.

Beachcombing in Great Otway National Park, West Oz.
NEX-6

Nex 5N

Another one from my NEX 7 + Tokina 300mm f2.8


SH_020313_DSC00155 by srhphoto, on Flickr

Simon.

sony nex-7 + 45/2:

Some shots with the Canon LTM 100/3.5 & my NEX-7, just trying to get a feel for the lens.


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Hey look I'm a Flamingo.

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OK, how's this pose?

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Distagon 35mm 1.4 and Speed Booster on NEX-6:

- L.

So, finally got around to the local wetlands again after far too long. The exotics were still a little far out, but I don't know if there will be enough time this year for me to really track them down.

All the normal characters are out in abundance though...



wak 3.2.131339 by artistwithlight, on Flickr



wak 3.2.131343 by artistwithlight, on Flickr



wak 3.2.131355crop by artistwithlight, on Flickr



wak 3.2.131320e by artistwithlight, on Flickr

Leady - That bird shot with the booster is awesome.

Can someone tell me if Leica M lenses and rokkor lenses can be used on the NEX with the speed booster?
-Jim

Jim Schemel wrote:
Leady - That bird shot with the booster is awesome.

Can someone tell me if Leica M lenses and rokkor lenses can be used on the NEX with the speed booster?
-Jim

definitely no on leica m, rokkor lenses can really only be used if you convert them to canon mount first (easy on the 58/1.2 but difficult on most of the rest).

a couple with the 40 cron: