Thanks Philippe, much obliged! The funny thing is that the edges of the building are just outside my crop
Here is another from Tiergarten, ZF 85/1.4 @ f/8. Too bad it is so small, at 1500x1000 it looks much better. Maybe one day we can have a survey about preferred image sizes.
Ulff -- Thanks for you extensive and illuminating comments. And thanks for taking my remarks in the collegial sense they were intended. The more we can pool our result and have rational discussion, the better for all.
I'm glad to find my guess was right about the different times (days) for the exposures. I hope to find the same results as you when I do some twilight comparisons this fall and winter. I love the shots I get with my Canon 24TS and now have the newer 24TS II (yes, I got plenty of good results with the old version!). And the 24-70L has never let me down either.
Now I have the ZE 21/2.8 and 35/2 to see if it improves the coma and edge/corner sharpness, which is the only area I'd like better results compared to what I've gotten in the past.
phillip -- I haven't found any muddiness with the Canons, especially in time exposure twilight. The opposite is more the norm -- excellent color rendition for twilight shots.
Much has to do with the exact moment the image is taken -- shooting a long series for around 20 minutes to 1/2 hour, you can review and see exactly where the proper balance of light takes place. A little too late and the scene is murky and awful. Too early and it is suffused with weak lavendar glow following sunset. And conditions such as dust in the air, or rain having cleared the air make major differences to the outcome of the color symphony.
Carsten -- Great shots, as usual! Like Phil, I love the circular design in the building shot. Your headless dinosaur is a hoot.
I just got back from Cambria, CA, which is up the coast from me about three hours. Lots of interesting stuff to be found! I didn't do too much beach/ocean, and what I did was with the G6, so nothing terribly special (and belonging on a different Alt thread anyway).
But I did get a lot of shots with the Zeiss Contax 50/1.4 in the commercial areas and out in the backroads. Quite a few panos, which I'll post on the Pano-mania thread (if it is still alive!).
Here's a sampling of the Zeiss Contax 50/1.4 shot on Canon 1Ds2. All shots at ISO 200, except the night shot at ISO 800. All hand held. CPL used only on the rosebush pano. PP in LR3, panos stitched in PSE8.
Congratulations on your new lens, TSY! BTW, you could read the Zeiss article on Planar designs (the 100MP is a planar-design lens). They include a short discussion of tubes and close-up lenses for such lenses.
philber wrote:
Congratulations on your new lens, TSY! BTW, you could read the Zeiss article on Planar designs (the 100MP is a planar-design lens). They include a short discussion of tubes and close-up lenses for such lenses.
Michael, I missed saying how much I love your "Hiking trail" and "foliage tunnel" shots! I am still thinking about getting a CZ35/1.4 but I guess for my Nikon I will need the ZF.2.
Thanks Jim! That rubber duck shot is a hoot! I sat with my 3-year old daughter and discussed the various ducks on that shot for maybe 15 minutes
Btw, in case anyone is wondering why I am posting these images both in this thread and in the Spreepark thread, it is because although they really belong in the Spreepark thread, I expect that with time it will disappear into the nether regions of the archive, whereas I expect this thread to last somewhat longer.
Btw, my computer just crashed out to my login prompt, and when I logged back in, suddenly all my photos seems kinda dark. Do these shots look dark to those of you with profiled monitors?
