Gunzorro wrote:
Thanks Fred! You were one of the people who most influenced me to get the 50, once I'd already obtained the Loxia 35. Your great shots of El Capitan, and this recent re-post of the Sierra valley, closed me! I'm very happy with the set.
Here are a few more from the on its first day outdoors.
Great shots Jim! You are really showing off this lens!
The Loxia 50 has amazing color/micro-contrast. Resolution across the field is outstanding at f/6.3. I don't usually shoot it wide-open but it's sharp in the center/mid zone areas. There is some LoCA up until f/3.2.
It's my 50mm choice for landscapes for its size/weight, manual focus, flare control and beautiful sunstar rendering.
mortyb wrote:
These are sooooo cool! No idea how you nail these shots, but huge kudos!
Thank you so much ! A kind of hoover fly who stands still sometimes in the air so you can sometimes shoot them ... this variety is much faster in the air than the usual hoover fly
Incidentally if anyone can give me advice about focusing these fly by wire systems for accurate infinity focus I would be delighted. The electronic viewfinder was completely black in that night sky. I composed by shooting and adjusting and I had to do the same with focusing hoping to heck that it would be good enough.
Also for my brief experience, you have to find the brightest star in the sky and manually adjust focus on it with the viewfinder magnification set to maximu (x14.4 on A7r)... I used this basic technique without the help of peaking and worked very well
mortyb wrote:
These are sooooo cool! No idea how you nail these shots, but huge kudos!
+1
Ronny, this series is simply incredible and you have used the 100-300 a Magician
Ronny Olsson wrote:
Thank you so much ! A kind of hoover fly who stands still sometimes in the air so you can sometimes shoot them ... this variety is much faster in the air than the usual hoover fly
Oh right, so these hover flies are faster and trickier than the ordinary ones , the ones that hover in one spot plenty long enough to be photographed in perfect focus, about 1/100th of a second normally does it before they fly off at 50 mph, yeah heaps of time, not a problem.
These faster ones presumably fly up to the focus plane, hover, pose, maybe ask if Ronny would like a profile shot as well and then fly off, but only when Ronny is ready!
ManuelLaMantia wrote:
Also for my brief experience, you have to find the brightest star in the sky and manually adjust focus on it with the viewfinder magnification set to maximu (x14.4 on A7r)... I used this basic technique without the help of peaking and worked very well
+1
Ronny, this series is simply incredible and you have used the 100-300 a Magician
darbo wrote:
So much wow on this page. Every shot.
Loxia 50mm looks amazing Jim. The color rendering on the whole Loxia range never fails to impress me.
Day after day incredible countryside photos Werner. Stunning places. Wish there was scenery like that near me.
Thanks so much for your kind words, David! I agree completely about the Loxia rendition and quality. If I shot more tele, I would consider the Loxia 85, but I just don't put those to much use (have the 90 TSE, 100L, Samyang 85 and Mamiya 645 80/4 macro). But this Loxia trio I've gotten (all from B&S here!) is really impressive, and the Sony magnified focusing is amazing paired with the MF lenses.
Peter T wrote:
Oh right, so these hover flies are faster and trickier than the ordinary ones , the ones that hover in one spot plenty long enough to be photographed in perfect focus, about 1/100th of a second normally does it before they fly off at 50 mph, yeah heaps of time, not a problem.
These faster ones presumably fly up to the focus plane, hover, pose, maybe ask if Ronny would like a profile shot as well and then fly off, but only when Ronny is ready!
I experience this art faster ... But maybe it's not
Flight speed is only 3.5 metres per second
But 3.5 meters in one direction and stand still for one second and then 3.5 meters in the other direction and then stand still for 2 seconds and then 3.5 meters straight up
mttran wrote:
Love the lens the model and the shooter
Thank you very much, Michael!
Two more images from Vegas. The sky was just incredible last Monday, the hottest day of the week. The temperature reached 120F or 48 centigrades in the afternoon. It was a tad cooler after the sun had set, about 115F or 46 centigrades or so. They say it was dry heat... Yeah, right! When it reaches 100F or so, you sweat like a pig regardless. Excuse me, you perspire.... .
Both were taken with the Voigtlander Nokton 35mm f/1.2 Aspherical version I at f/4.0 if I remember correctly.
Kind of a cool comparison of the same duplex with three lenses. I still love the Loxia 35 for these medium distance architecture shots, but the 21 is very dramatic! Loxia 21, 35 and Zony 24-70 @ 38mm. The zoom is not in the same league, but not really that far off -- nearly as sharp in center f/8, but resolution falls toward the edges-- still, it has that great Zeiss color!
Beautiful color and angle of ambient light -- similar to that found in Northern Europe and lower Canada.
All hand held; corrected perspective, cropped and PP in LRCC.
Joshua, awesome images from that Voightlander 35 lens! Is that the only 35mm lens you own? Which adapter are you using with it? How do you like it for portraits and landscapes/cityscapes
AGeoJO wrote:
Thank you very much, Michael!
Two more images from Vegas. The sky was just incredible last Monday, the hottest day of the week. The temperature reached 120F or 48 centigrades in the afternoon. It was a tad cooler after the sun had set, about 115F or 46 centigrades or so. They say it was dry heat... Yeah, right! When it reaches 100F or so, you sweat like a pig regardless. Excuse me, you perspire.... .
Both were taken with the Voigtlander Nokton 35mm f/1.2 Aspherical version I at f/4.0 if I remember correctly.
digital_AM wrote:
Joshua, awesome images from that Voightlander 35 lens! Is that the only 35mm lens you own? Which adapter are you using with it? How do you like it for portraits and landscapes/cityscapes
Thank you very much, Alfredo! No, I do have 3 prime 35mm lenses. I bought this lens some 2 months ago but I didn't have the opportunity to use it much except for some tests. More recently, I bought an FE 35mm f/2.8 more for travel as I have visitors and we traveled to a few Southern States and to San Francisco more as tourists. I really enjoyed that tiny lens a lot. I used that Voigtlander lens more locally and for personal photography. And I love the results. If stopped down to f/4 or f/5.6, it is a very capable landscape lens but if used at wide open or close to wide open, it is great for environmental portraits.
I used it for my twin grandkids' Birthday party with their school friends and here is one of the images. I used my TAP in combo with this lens as at my age, I would rather rely on its AF capability rather than focusing manually, especially at wide open aperture. I took it to Vegas earlier in the week and used it both at wide open and stopped down. I am attaching another image from the most recent Vegas trip at f/2.8
I'm very happy with the set.
... this variety is much faster in the air than the usual hoover fly 
