Thank you very much, Jim! Here are the last two images taken from the same area. At least for now until a few more days when I will be trying out a new to me lens .
The first one shows the typical bokeh of the Noctilux at wide open from a longer focusing distance. I played with the idea of selling this lens and I pulled it out to play with it and decided that it was too hard for me to let it go although I don't use that lens that often. The second image is a crop of a Batis 25mm taken at close to its minimal focusing distance.
Never sell a Nocti, Joshua !
Beautiful work (everything!)
Vielen Dank, Werner! No, you are right, i won't but I am afraid that my son will after I kick the bucket . He is not into photography whatsoever, except using his iPhone, that is.
Great IR images! That's an area of photography that I would like to do... one day.
Switching topic and going back to Venice - I took pictures of Florine Houée at my very first carnival in 2010 and she is still going strong now in 2017. I love that lens, BTW!
Compliments for you venetian Carnival shots Joshua, they are just great. Having a big distance to carnival (might have to do that i am born in the center of the german version of it) i can love YOUR shots.
- Same with me and all that photographic stuff (a lot....) not to speak of the wine cellar no inheritance in sight, my daughter, well, she drinks wine at least..... I will keep everything and try to ignore the hereafter....
I still have more of the sleety-snow river shots. Hope you aren't sick of them! Snow is not unknown in coastal Washington, but this year has had several accumulations. I was lucky in February to have a couple snowfalls, so took advantage.
How many weeks did you spend on the Lofoten, Ronny, to get such a wealth of fabulous shots?
Love the portrait, Rob! Congrats!
And the usual suspects: Werner, René, Joshua, Helena...
Originally I got the Carl Zeiss Biogon T* 2/35 ZM due to it's rendering style; extreme high contrast and micro-contrast on focus plane, transitions from focus plane to boke, focus plane vs boke contrast difference etc. are all very close to what I consider optimal compromise on a lens. This lens produces quite ugly boke wide open, like most lenses I like but f/2.8-5.6 results are very enjoyable to my eye.
This lens was pretty hard to get working with Sony. It's not at all usable with standard thick filter camera. It works for easy stuff like closed down landscapes on Kolari v1-3, but outward field curvature ruins all boke shots (example of horrible corners jumping into focus). Finally combining Kolari v2 camera to "Front-end filter"-method I was able to get the lens to work. I'm still in middle of testing and now I'm using 3000mm Plano-Convex lens, but I need to try 2500mm and 4000mm as well before confirming 3000mm is optimal with Kolari v2 sensor stack.
