Photo taken October 1, 2015 at 12:08 PM at the bottom of the "Ski Slope" on the Property of the Adirondack Mountain Club at Heart Lake (Lake owned by the Adirondack Mountain Club), Lake Placid, NY. Image taken with my tripod mounted A7r and my Minolta CLE MC 40mm f2 M-Rokkor lens and with my Singh-Ray Lighter Brighter Color Combo Polarizer (Warm Polarizer with Color Intensifier). ISO 200, lens set to approximately f11 for 1/80 second. Processed in LR6.
Thanks for the kind words. I tried 4 different telephotos from Zeiss, Leica and Voigtländer, primes and zooms, and the clear winner was the C-Y Zeiss 100-300 f/4.5-5.6 VS. The 100-300 is the heaviest but its ability to capture micro-contrast is phenomenal!
Dave
Grenache wrote:
Werner, love the Rokkor shots prior page.
Dbehrens, that first shot is so detailed, I could reach in and pet the animals.
Jim
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WhyFi wrote:
Awesome work! It's not often that I see telephoto shots that impart that sense of depth and texture.
dbehrens wrote:
Thanks for the kind words. I tried 4 different telephotos from Zeiss, Leica and Voigtländer, primes and zooms, and the clear winner was the C-Y Zeiss 100-300 f/4.5-5.6 VS. The 100-300 is the heaviest but its ability to capture micro-contrast is phenomenal!
Dave
Unfortunately it is very rare and rather expensive... if anyone in Europe wants to sell this lens, please contact me via PM
keerf wrote:
I'm sure I sound like a broken record, but wonderful images everyone! This thread has really gotten amazing.
nehemiahphoto wrote:
Excellent photos as usual Derek. What do you think of the contarex 85/2?
i'm still deciding, just got my first chance to shoot outdoor portraits with it yesterday, which is my primary intended purpose for it (85mm is too long to use indoors imo and my g90 is presumably better for landscape). i love the sonnar look and the colors are quite nice. build is great, but the focus throw is a little long for fast focusing. not sure how i feel about on adapter aperture control or the ninja stars at f/3.5-8. flare wide open can be quite bad, but sometimes that's what i want. perfect amount of glow wide open for portraits, though i wish there was less veilling flare. some wide open shots with it from yesterday:
my biggest complaint so far is that i don't think it's quite as good for portraits as the m 90 cron pre-asph. in some situations it can be better, but it requires more care. it's also a bit bigger and heavier and harder to focus...
Inspired by the recent a7rII praises and amazing shots on this thread, I decided to get one. I had a7 last year and around this time last year I sold it when I got m240. The reason for selling a7 was nothing but the skin tones and harshness of the images from a7. Right after I took few shots from m240, I developed a little aversion to a7 files and ultimately sold a7.
This weekend I got the a7rii and I felt the memories of a7 file coming back to me looking at the skin tones. It's just same again. Very little I could do to change the hues on the file and feel the files are so less malleable compared to the dng of the m240.
So, I thought it must be me and my processing whivh is not getting the best of the files and thus I decided to write in this post for some guidance and suggestions and help on how can I get the colors and skin tones from the a7rii that are not having the red/magenta/purple skin hues.
I understand the colors are a personal choice but I am just asking if someone has felt like me on this thread and have come to find a way to get the look they wanted.
I use CaptureOne v9.0x and used the build in profiles for a7rii.
jfreak wrote:
Hello all the talented people on this thread.
Inspired by the recent a7rII praises and amazing shots on this thread, I decided to get one. I had a7 last year and around this time last year I sold it when I got m240. The reason for selling a7 was nothing but the skin tones and harshness of the images from a7. Right after I took few shots from m240, I developed a little aversion to a7 files and ultimately sold a7.
This weekend I got the a7rii and I felt the memories of a7 file coming back to me looking at the skin tones. It's just same again. Very little I could do to change the hues on the file and feel the files are so less malleable compared to the dng of the m240.
So, I thought it must be me and my processing whivh is not getting the best of the files and thus I decided to write in this post for some guidance and suggestions and help on how can I get the colors and skin tones from the a7rii that are not having the red/magenta/purple skin hues.
I understand the colors are a personal choice but I am just asking if someone has felt like me on this thread and have come to find a way to get the look they wanted.
I use CaptureOne v9.0x and used the build in profiles for a7rii. ...Show more →
I would start a new thread if I were you. This is intended to be more an image thread and it moves fast. Before too long your post and others that try to help you will be buried..... Just a suggestion.
