Looking across Heart Lake (Lake owned by the Adirondack Mountain Club)
Tripod mounted A7r and my Minolta CLE MC 40mm f2 M-Rokkor lens
ISO 100, approximately f11, 1/20 second
Exposure corrected by + 0.48 stops; processed in LR6.10
Chuck Coyne wrote:
Just back from an 8-day trip to Ireland with my wife. This was more a vacation then a photography-centered trip so I didn't have the time for more serious planning and scouting of locations. All-in-all I'm pleased with the pictures that I did manage to take and have started going through them as time permits. 98% of the shots including all the multi-shot panoramas were shot hand-held. I can't say enough about how wonderful the IBIS worked with the A7r2. This was such a change for me as I normally shoot 95% of my serious photography on a tripod.
I contemplated taking only autofocus lenses including my 24-70 GM but at the last minute I decided to make myself work a little harder with mainly an all manual focus prime kit. I ended up taking my Loxia 21, Distagon 35 ZM, Loxia 50 and Loxia 85, I also threw in the Batis 18 just in case I needed a bit wider indoors at churches, etc...
I found that I really could have taken just the Loxia 21, Distagon 35 ZM and the Loxia 85 and I would have been fine. In fact out of 1,672 shots I used the Distagon 35 ZM - 40.8%; the Loxia 21 - 35.8%; and the Loxia 85 - 13.5%.
Here are few from the "Ring of Kerry" in County Kerry which is a very popular 95 mile loop around a peninsula on very winding narrow roads and switchbacks. The views of landscapes and seascapes are just amazing. The driving is terrifying as there are spots where two vehicles can barely squeeze by each other and rock walls inches away on both sides of the roads. In a few spots there are narrow bridges that only one vehicle can pass at a time. There were big tour buses and large construction trucks as well as the stray sheep to be on the look out for as you meandered around these narrow roads!
The people were very friendly and it was a very enjoyable trip. I highly recomend it.
Joshua...stunning portraits with the Siggy 135. Looks like a REALLY good lens!!
Greggf wrote: Gregg A7rll and Loxia 35 all @mfd i see your funky bokeh and raise you:
....Fold.... Absolutely loving the loxia 50 on my a7ii
As far as I'm concerned, prob the best standard 50 out there, IMO. Nice grabs...
Gregg
A7rll and Loxia 35
From San Juan Bautista Historic Missiion and Town
Greggf wrote:
Joshua...stunning portraits with the Siggy 135. Looks like a REALLY good lens!!
....Fold....
As far as I'm concerned, prob the best standard 50 out there, IMO. Nice grabs...
Gregg
A7rll and Loxia 35
From San Juan Bautista Historic Missiion and Town
Gregg,
I thought you said something like that about the FE 50mm f/1.4, didn't you ?
Nice images from San Juan Bautista; I was there several years ago... maybe it was over 10 years ago even. Time flies!
I thought you said something like that about the FE 50mm f/1.4, didn't you ?
the FE 50 1.4 ZA is not "standard" It's fast, and incredible! But it doesn't do Landscapes as well as the Loxia, IMO, and the the sunstars are non-existent.
