HelenaN wrote:
Interesting light so I took a walk with A7II and CV Nokton 50/1.5 VM (for some reason I shot the last one at f/2):
Nice photos Helena - I enjoyed specially the last one, the f/2 usage seems to have softened the left and right edges and high contrast on subject against dark mountains in back make subject to stand out really nice.
Continuation to my boke highlight ball, flare resistance & rendering style studies from car museum:
Sony Distagon T* 1.4/35 FE @ f/1.4, 1/60s, A7R @ ISO 125
Sony Distagon T* 1.4/35 FE @ f/1.4, 1/60s, A7R @ ISO 125
Sony FE 1.4/85 GM @ f/1.7, 1/100s, A7mkII @ ISO 320
Sony FE 1.4/85 GM @ f/1.7, 1/100s, A7mkII @ ISO 200
Helena - Thank you for beautiful images and your kind words. Norway has to be one of the most scenic countries in the world and at the same time it feels familiar to me. Your scenes especially, not the fjords, look like the Pacific Northwest where I live, same trees, same plants and even the same weeds.
David, you replaced both Batis lenses with the Loxia 21mm? I love your Batis images..... Well, you know how to make any lens sing anyway. Excellent first image with your Loxia!
AGeoJO wrote:
David, you replaced both Batis lenses with the Loxia 21mm? I love your Batis images..... Well, you know how to make any lens sing anyway. Excellent first image with your Loxia!
Thanks so much Joshua! I do indeed plan to sell both Batis wides. My Batis 85mm is safe. Contemplating selling my Batis 135mm for a 100-400mm GM (I love your work with it BTW). I don't love big telephoto zooms (a pain to use in concert with smaller/wider lenses), but I think the FE 100-400mm would be a blast to use; even with my slow-frame-rate a7R II.
This is a sequential set I took using a loaner FE 100-400mm GM lens courtesy of Sony. Sorry, I posted the first image previously in this thread already but I thought the sequence would not be complete with it, so, here it is again. I also cross posted this in another thread.
Continuing my early walk... it had started to rain, after I'd left my rain jacket in the car, and didn't care to backtrack and lose the moment. Cleaning the lens between every attempted shot, trying to protect it during exposure, and seeing the raindrops still in the image soon became old.
Contemplating selling my Batis 135mm for a 100-400mm GM (I love your work with it BTW). I don't love big telephoto zooms (a pain to use in concert with smaller/wider lenses), but I think the FE 100-400mm would be a blast to use; even with my slow-frame-rate a7R II. 
