Looking across I believe Rock Island Bay of Tupper Lake which is on the west side of south bound New York State Route 30
Ttripod mounted A7r and Minolta CLE MC 40mm f2 M-Rokkor lens
ISO 100, probably f11, 1/400 second
Exposure corrected by +0.36 Stops; processed in LR6.10
Ronny, that mountain view with the doubly slanted composition is fantastic.
Werner, love the drama in the monochrome of the dome. Phenomenal detail when the eye is not distracted by color.
EBookman, thanks for the response. It will save me many $. I just bought a 16-35/4 and was wanting to be content with that, but I almost clicked buy on a WATE several times over the last year.
A7R2 & 100/2.8 (T5.6) STF around Old Town Sacramento. The silver guy wanted me to take his photo, so I obliged. He had numerous looks that would make Zoolander's "Blue Steel" look pale in comparison.
Last summer I started to want high quality short tele, similar to Zeiss ZE/ZF series APO-Sonnar 2/135, but shorter focal length, and preferably small size and weight. Loxia 85 was not yet out so I ended up getting Leica APO-Summicron-M 90mm f/2.8. If I would have to make the decision now it would be Loxia 85 at least based on what I have seen from it on this forum - also Loxia would have been cheaper.
Soon after getting 90APO I got little frustrated to photography and took "a pause" from photography for a half a year. I actually downloaded these photos from cards still inside cameras in Jan or Feb this year... and today I started processing them. Actually kind of nice to view last summer work for first time now.
First photo I ever took with this lens, conservatively chose to close down one stop as all lenses seem to be best 1-2 stops down. I think result looks OK, I can't really find any faults from the rendering, even boke is very well controlled, thou tree trunk on top could look smoother.
I usually never shoot wide open, just few shots when lens is new to me to get to know the character of lens and to understand real life usability of different apertures. Here are few wide open tests, first observation is that focus plane contrast wide open is lower compared to f/2.8. Boke has tendency of having sharp boke highlights and overall boke texture tends to be harsh/busy. This first sample is from 2-3meter/6-9feet distance, and as can be seen boke highlights have light concentration on the edge, but large distance to background saves a little as quantity of boke is large. Also notice catseye shaped highlights in corners. Focus plane is well controlled, and I didn't see much LoCA either.
Another wide open sample, this time 4-5m/12-15feet distance. Don't know is it distance or highlights in this scene but boke highlights don't seem to suffer as bad light concentration to edges as they did in previous example - as a result boke seems to be quite OK. Corners again have catseyes. Focus plane OK, no visible LoCA. Overall I'm positively surprised.
3rd wide open samples, from 8-10m/24-30feet distance. Now boke seems problematic and about 100x worse than at f/2.8 shot of same scene. Focus plane and LoCA performance no complaints. I think that at large distances it's better to use f/2.8 unless your background is very simple and far away.
I managed to capture this ride in motion in between the pillars. Captured with the FE55 and edited using vibrancy masks which is a new technique I'm experimenting with.
rji2goleez wrote:
A little street shooting with the FE85/1.8
Very nice Bob! Good lens and great images.
These shots were taken today at the Arizona wild animal park. "Out of Africa." Not to complain, but it was really hot on the desert and the A7RII with Metabones IV and the Canon EF 100-400 combo was like carrying a small child that could not walk on its own. All shots were hand held. These were the only animals that were not behind two or three levels of fencing.
