This indoor image of Sophie Farfalla, a dedicated carnival costumée, was captured at the boutique hotel we stayed at in Venice during the mask carnival last month. I love her meticulously and intricately decorated costume and head gear. Yes, a tripod was used for this image regardless of IBIS .
As I expected Kolari thin filter also helps on SLR lenses, which had weird field curvature with standard A7 and A7r. I have been waiting to get back to Contax-era Zeiss lenses, which rendering style I like the most - however weird outward curvature of field has been bothering me with non-modified cameras and I have shoot other lenses (e.g. ZE-series) instead.
With Kolari thin filter mod finally Distagon T* 2.8/28 started to work - it was pretty hopeless (for boke shooting, f/11 landscapes OK) with standard thick cover glass, just a weak shadow what it was with Canon 5DmkII. Few test shots about medium distance boke shooting, while waiting snow to melt and spring to start. Last 1-2mm of image circle is crappy at large apertures like can be seen from pictures below, but based on MTF it should look like this. But there is no more outward field curvarture on last 10mm of image circle, like with standard thick sensor cover glass.
Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 2.8/28 CY @ f/4.0, 1/15s, A7m @ ISO 100, Carl Zeiss T* POL Filter (circular) 67m
Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 2.8/28 CY @ f/4.0, 1/320s, A7m @ ISO 100
Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 2.8/28 CY @ f/2.8, 1/400s, A7 @ ISO 80
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A7RII with Zeiss Contax 50/1.7 Another Arizona post card shot.
Wonderful depth and detail.
A few more from my manufacturing series.
This company has 4 of these smaller post mills in one department; two 4" and two 5". If I had to guess, I'd say they are more than half a century in age. Despite decades of use (and occasional abuse), these things are still capable of holding tolerances as close as 0.0007" (0.017mm) on a bore. They don't make 'em like this anymore...I'll prove this point in my next installment.
There are so many great shots here, just on this thread. I am a sucker for great B&W, but the colors are equally impressive.
Here are a few shots of the Boston skyline from a couple of weeks ago. Views from Cambridge.
All three shots with the A7rII and newly acquired Zeiss C/Y 35-70 f3.4. This lens lives up to its reputation.
My Canon 24 f/1.4L II is turning out to be awesome on the a7rii. Seeing as the batis lenses are basically a myth here, I'll stick to this lens for awhile, which has been one of my long time favorites.
No great feat of photography - I often get shadowed by Thai kids, of varying degrees of confidence, who like practicing what little English they have as well as returning home with an interesting story of having spoken with a foreigner.
Been away for a while - will need to go back and look at the many pages I have missed. In the meantime, here is a recent pic from the Badlands of Alberta.
Got reacquainted with an old lens I had previously owned and sold, the Canon FD 50/1.4 SSC. In my opinion the best version of that lens, since it combines the all-metal build of the previous version (chrome nose) with the SSC-coating also found on the new FD version.
A quick snap of my daughter, wearing "traditional" make up used around Easter to dress up as "witches": All made up by scepticswe, on Flickr
The 50 came in a bundle, also containing a (for me) long sought after lens, the new FD 300/4 L. A simple test shot to test its wide open performance:Canon new FD 300 mm f/4 L test shot by scepticswe, on Flickr
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