Images from the Salt River near Mesa, AZ, one if my favorite locations. A7RII with my Zeiss Contax 50mm F/1.7 and the NEW ***Rayqual*** adapter. This was to me like getting a new lens! I almost never shoot 50mm and part of that reason is that the C/Y 50/1.7 has given me so much grief with internal flare and inconsistent performance. This was not a happy situation because the C/Y 50/1.7 when it is performing well is my favorite 50. The Contax 35-70 thread got me to thinking about adapters and it occurred to me that my problem just might be my cheap adapter. I bought the Rayqual adapter and it is like a new native lens! I couldn't be more pleased!
Agree, Chuck, hard to keep up with the speed of this thread. I got a new to me A7RII to supplement my A7II (or the other way around), but haven't had much time to play with it ye. Anyway, here are a couple. Thanks for looking.
Photo taken the evening of March 26, 2016 about 57 minutes before sunset from the top of the Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, PA overlooking the Lehigh County Zoo and beyond. Image taken with my tripod mounted Sony A7rM V3 and my Leica R 50mm f2 Summicron lens, ISO 100, lens set to f11 for 1/250 second. Exposure corrected by + 0.83 Stops and processed in LR6.
Got out this morning to test a newly acquired 85/2.8 c/y. I've never owned this lens as I tried an 85/2.8 Rollei and wasn't too impressed (some CA and low contrast). I know the HFT coating is pretty good so I assume I tried a dud lens. This C/Y is up there with the 100/3.5;
One with the Kipon macro helicoid in action. I bump the FL to 100mm when taking close shots as the A7r2 doesn't know the focusing distance. Seems to give me less jitter in the EVF.
Two more images from Hunt's Mesa - the first one was a night capture at about 11:00PM showing the moonlit Monument Valley. This location is about 1 mile away from the spot where I took the sunset earlier. The second capture is of our tents, where I "barely" slept that night. Again, it was partly lit by the moon but we turned on our flash light in the first two tents. The third shooting buddy of mine didn't bother to take this shot. So, he slept in the last tent and we left him alone. The moon was simply too bright to get a decent star trail image
