Two shots from this spring: 1) Alder bottom in the Quinalt rainforest, Olympic National Park…2 frame focus stack. 2) Algal bloom near the headwaters of the Lyre River, Olympic National Park.
Looking at a cascade down stream of Dark Hollow Falls
Tripod mounted A7r and Leica R 28mm f2.8 Elmarit V2 lens
ISO 50, about f22, 1.3 second
Exposure corrected by -0.36 Stops; processed in LR6
June 8, 2015
At Shenandoah National Park, Virginia
ebookman wrote:
The first questions I wanted to answer were:
1. Can I hand hold the camera at 400mm? It is a heavy lens.
Hi Dale, I didn't see anyone else answer this but I may have just missed their response. Yes, absolutely you can hand-hold this and isn't doesn't have to have VR/IS on. I don't know how the A7rii handles 3rd party lenses but if there is any issue / lack of clarity on the subject just switch them both off (lens and camera) and you should still be able to handle a 400mm easily. I've hand-held 600mm and over down to 1/50 or so with good Long Lens technique (Google it : breathing, stance and how to hold the lens) and maybe something to lean on, you should do just fine.
Some impressions from this year's Classic Days at Castle Dyck.
All with Sony A7 plus
#1 Minolta 35mm Rokkor-HH f1.8 @ f2.8 and combination of 64x and 400x ND filter (=25,600x) and Sony SR app (4 x 30 sec @ ISO 100)
#2 Minolta 35mm Rokkor-HH f1.8 @ f2.8
#3 Minolta 35mm Rokkor-HH f1.8 @ f4 and combination of 64x and 400x ND filter (=25,600x) and Sony SR app (8 x 20 sec @ ISO 200)
#4 Contax Planar 50mm f1.4 @ f2.3 and 64x ND filter (1/50 sec @ ISO 100)
