Had this visitor while enjoying my coffee and breakfast backpacking last week. He came within about 10 meters of where I was sitting. Very cool experience. Shot with G 90.
Bought a Canon FD 50/1.4 which, it turns out, has a lens element completely covered with an oily haze, which kills contrast and causes severe flairing. Deciding to try and make use of that flaw, I took it out and tested it and kind of like the results. Who needs Instagram filters when you have haze, right? Contrast/clarity added in post. Tied down by scepticswe, on Flickr
One cloudy day on Rhodos pushed me at the evening after dinner to get in the car and hurry over the half of the island to catch the blue hour in Old Rhodos town. Here is a result, hope you enjoy. Taken with Tamron 15-30 at 21mm.
Laowa has botched up the FE mount of the 2/105, I think the lens itself is quite flare resistant and has really high contrast but reflections in the extension necessary to maintain the flange focal distance kill any contrast easily when you shoot against a bright background.
Greggf wrote:
Wow! Wow! Wow! Take a couple of days off from posting and this thread goes off! Super awesome images from everyone these last few pages. As Joshua put it, this thread continues to impress with both the images, AND the photogs. Really inspirational, and I mean that.
Gregg
A7rll and Olympus OM 100/2 Some bokehliscious-ness
Joshua...Crap! I posted some shots, then saw your post above, and had to come back and edit...Those owl grabs are nothing short of spectacular! Holy crap! Do you think they would be that good on a corresponding Canon body?
Hi Gregg, thank you very much!
Canon 5Ds R with its 50MP sensor is an excellent camera. What is a little short, relative to the Sony sensor is the DR, and that is more important in landscape photography than wildlife. I am just speculating here but I am pretty sure it would be able to generate similar results under those circumstances.
AGeoJO wrote:
Thank you very much, Charles! The water looks different than what we used to get from long exposure. On smaller size images, like on the camera monitor, they actually look great. Oh, well. Merging the two types in PP, like in HDR processing, may look interesting, Time to experiment .
Thank you, Jim! That's the power of a hi-res sensor we have at our disposable now. Yes, the lens resolution plays a role, too, of course.
Awesome images from Grand Teton! I need to go back there. It has been 15 years or so ago when I was there and it wasn't even a photography trip.
Here are the last two images of the burrowing owls, at least for the time being. Thank you everyone very much for your "likes". ...Show more →
Talk about a body and lens combo that is both small/light(ish) yet provides incredible IQ....if AF is at least reasonable, I have to believe this would be a killer wildlife combo for anything but BIF.
I had an old 400 DO awhile back, and always find a few times during the year when I wish I had it back, the size & weight are hilarious for the reach you get, especially if you had a TC of some sort.
gocolts wrote:
Talk about a body and lens combo that is both small/light(ish) yet provides incredible IQ....if AF is at least reasonable, I have to believe this would be a killer wildlife combo for anything but BIF.
I had an old 400 DO awhile back, and always find a few times during the year when I wish I had it back, the size & weight are hilarious for the reach you get, especially if you had a TC of some sort.
I am leaving for Costa Rica on Monday to do mostly wildlife shooting. My A7r II and A6300 will be my (main) camera bodies and the 400mm DO II (with or without the 1.4X TC) my main lens. From my testing in the last several weeks the setup is quite capable in pulling it off, including some BIF, not extreme BIF though. I will rely on the PDAF in both bodies for that. I am currently using an older FW on my Metabones IV as the current FW is not that reliable. BTW, the Mark II lens is a notch or two better than the first version.
I will be bringing my FE 70-300mm as my second lens. That lens will reach 450mm in FF terms based on the APS-C crop factor on the A6300. At least I will have a native lens with semi-long reach on this trip, as well. We will see how this will pan out and I will report back after the trip in about 2 weeks from now.
So after a little bit of a defection, I am back on a Sony body. My old A7ii broke down on me twice, and I just got fed up. After a brief stint with Nikon, I missed my A7ii. So I bought a new one, and came back.
I need to play catch up a bit on this thread, seems like I missed a bit.
Terry...welcome back.
Werner...killer grabs with that Hyper-wide 10mm!
Bob...yours as well with the 10mm. Your Amsterdam shots are pretty damn incredible!!
Gregg
A7rll and FE 28. Downtown street grabs
Got a little funky. @f2 street artists
Same as above...
Pizza my Heart...if you've been to our Central Coast, you'll have heard about it. That lines for real...just for pizza!! @f2.5
Greggf wrote:
Terry...welcome back.
Werner...killer grabs with that Hyper-wide 10mm!
Bob...yours as well with the 10mm. Your Amsterdam shots are pretty damn incredible!!
Gregg
A7rll and FE 28. Downtown street grabs
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