Gunzorro wrote:
Yay! Just closed a deal on pre-owned a7R2, heading my way this next week! Awesome to get a few more features and resolution, plus IBIS. My manual focus lenses can hardly wait. Good times!
Congrats Jim ! When I added the A7rii to my A7r, and added the TAP, I found the added functionality, of AF for some of my favourite MF lenses, wonderful, especially for older eyes that make MFing slightly more difficult than for some younger lads n lassies, and opened up a whole world of alternative lenses !
Took me a while to go through the last 10 pages that I missed. Great stuff from everyone as usual. My recent photography activities have been about birds. Here s two from this morning on my way to the wildlife refuge.
Looking at Dark Hollow Falls. A storm had dumped 16 inches of rain on the Park weeks before and the water was abnormally high.
Tripod mounted A7r and Leica M WATE f4 lens set to 18mm
ISO 50, f8, 1/3 second
Exposure corrected by +0.24 Stops; processed in LR6.4
October 19, 2015
At Shenandoah National Park, Virginia
First post of Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes at Death Valley together Joshua and Nadim. Has been a very early morning session after a confused (and short) night due to the Daylight Saving Time... thanks to that poor italian guy using a manual watch
Start of a series of new images from Universal Studios Hollywood. Taken last night with a7R and Canon 24/2.8 IS lens and Sigma MC-11 adapter. Most are either wide open, or stopped down to f/4.0. All are hand held with LRCC processing.
I'm amazed what can be accomplished these days with high resolution, IS, hand held and moderately high ISO (800). Add to that, perspective correction in LR and things can be done easily today that could only have been Sci-Fi dreams in the '80s!
A quick note on regarding these shots compared to similar shots taken a few weeks ago with the native Sony 28/2: There is no comparison on focusing speed and rapid AF acquisition between the two -- the Sony 28/2 is very fast and accurate, enabling "shooting from the hip". The downside of the Sony lens on the a7R is the lack of IS, which the Canon lens offers and helps substantially in improved IQ. With the upcoming a7RII body I am expecting, the balance will shift to the Sony 28/2. I consider the Canon to be the sharper lens though, so there is still a compelling reason to choose it over the Sony for less of a "street ninja" set-up.
Starting with the end of my visit, and working my way back . . .
Gunzorro wrote:
Yay! Just closed a deal on pre-owned a7R2, heading my way this next week! Awesome to get a few more features and resolution, plus IBIS. My manual focus lenses can hardly wait. Good times!
Congrats, Jim! You will enjoy that camera. The IBIS is godsend for us, older folks .
ManuelLaMantia wrote:
First post of Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes at Death Valley together Joshua and Nadim. Has been a very early morning session after a confused (and short) night due to the Daylight Saving Time... thanks to that poor italian guy using a manual watch
Manuel
We barely got our beauty sleep that night, didn't we? Well, as long as we don't do that on a regular basis.... no big deal!
Here are two more images from White Pocket. Manuel is on the second image as a scale of the landscape there . Darker clouds moved in in later on in the afternoon for more dramatic skies as shown there.
I've been MIA for the past 2 weeks due to some very busy time at work. I have several hundred posts to catch up on in here, it seems. But I'm back to processing my pics from the HWY395 strip.
Here is another set from Bodie. Same building (love the way it looks bent. It looked like this in person. This is not a lens/camera effect).
Awesome to get a few more features and resolution, plus IBIS. My manual focus lenses can hardly wait. Good times! 
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