Thanks, everyone! Jim, I don't know of anyone who has compared the 50MP and 60 Macro-Elmarit-R. Given that the 50MP is not so strong on the Zeiss look (being strong on sharpness but not boke), it might make a lot of sense to compare though. The f/2 is one difference, of course.
crazeazn and Smridevan (how do you pronounce those two names? ),
25 shots is just what it took I had to stop down a little to avoid funky colours in the branches against the sky (and to avoid the 1cm in focus problem and get a gentle fall-off) and so I needed to go close to get that large-format look. This meant stitching. I usually use CS4 for stitching, but it wouldn't do the 25-shot version, so I used Autopano Pro.
Luka, thanks a lot for your careful comments, much obliged. The bed was taken in very harsh cross-light, almost contre-jour. Great photos from you too! The white, broken tree in the rushes is astoundingly good. Have you been traveling a lot recently? The NYC shots were almost your trademark for a while, and now you shoot completely differently.
Wow, lots of tree photos here. Some recent images I can contribute (also posted in the Leica M8/M9 thread, so apologies to those who may have already seen these):
Carsten - Yes, these are from recent vacation. My wife and I car camped + BB for two weeks, took about 1200 pictures. I was hoping to take more but bad weather was against it. I still have some more to process. I am also taking pictures in NY, but most are shot with 'non-alt' lenses. Soon I will run out of non-NYC shot, then for sure I will be posting them again.
Ron - I enjoy your shooting style very much. Clarity, transparency of your ZM35+ M9 shots are impressive. Last two shots are my favorites. Berry shot for the play between focused to oof, last one with its dramatic composition.
carstenw wrote:
Under what circumstances would a 1DsIII hold you back, compared to a 5DII?
1D3, not a 1DsIII ; I purchased the 1D3 for the better AF, but after using so much alt glass for the last 6 months or so I've realized that my Canon Ls have gotten almost zero to little use. I'm just a mere hobbyist who has been taking photos of friends and family for the last 15+ years or so and didn't jump into the megapixel myth, but I've realized I would benefit in having all my lenses as their intended focal lengths back like when i shot film. The only thing I may regret is the big /nice viewfinder of the 1D series camera. I even toyed with purchasing a 5D classic, but having live view is super nice. I've acquired most of my alt-glass inadvertently and at great prices but I know I can scale down and reduce my kit.
Carsten - thank you. #1 and 2 are a bit tricky it seems. They look sharper on desktop, not quite on my laptop. Hopefully they are not looking too soft.
Carsten, have you tried using a smaller aperture to get more of the trees in focus? It's hard to see the leaves or in focus parts of the image with the background.
Round a bit this way, round a bit that way, some more… I try to shoot organized, but usually I end up shooting some more. For this tree I started in the bottom left, did column-major (up before sideways) towards the right, and then shot some more around the edge.
carstenw wrote:
Luka, they look just right, I find, at this size.
Thank you for commenting on that question. Tree barks in medium distance has been a bitt tricky subject in terms of sharpening for me as I would like to avoid the oversharpened look.
I love your stitched tree series. I enjoy the detail of leaves in sharp detail quickly transitioning to oof in a seemingly wide angle, effect not achievable with small fx censor without panorama. What's remarkable to me is there must be so many shots that are just blurs, and you / software somehow manage to identify and stitch them.
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; I purchased the 1D3 for the better AF, but after using so much alt glass for the last 6 months or so I've realized that my Canon Ls have gotten almost zero to little use. I'm just a mere hobbyist who has been taking photos of friends and family for the last 15+ years or so and didn't jump into the megapixel myth, but I've realized I would benefit in having all my lenses as their intended focal lengths back like when i shot film. The only thing I may regret is the big /nice viewfinder of the 1D series camera. I even toyed with purchasing a 5D classic, but having live view is super nice. I've acquired most of my alt-glass inadvertently and at great prices but I know I can scale down and reduce my kit.