Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 4/18 ZM @ f/8.0, 1/1000s, A7mkII @ ISO 125, Hoya +1 HMC, Adobe Lightroom FlatField-plugin (this is way too wide lens for me, I maybe never to learn to use it...)
My 12-24G came home today from Precision Camera in CT.
I rushed out to run it through its paces. Overcast today.
Nothing absolutely conclusive, but based on the average of shots at 12 and 24, it looks better balanced from side to side and AF seems accurate. Repair notes cite "1) Auto focus adjustment, 2) A complete repair and return of all functions to factory specs, and 3) complete cleaning (internal-external) and optical system."
Took just over one week from the day I shipped, 9/12 to 9/19. I shipped USPS Priority Insured. I consider that excellent service from one coast to the other and back again!
So far so good, but I'll keep carefully shooting and critically review images (as usual!).
Thanks to those who offered their positive experiences with Precision Camera's repairs and turnaround.
I'll post some better examples later -- still only part way through today's catch.
Here are a couple at 12mm. Looks pretty balanced in side/corner sharpness and light falloff.
I'll be glad when Adobe updates LR with a profile for this lens. Distortion (see beams in the shed and truck shots) and vignetting (see cyan corner darkening in the truck shot) should be pretty easy to deal with, both are very moderate, not bad.
Sharpness is very good across the frame, and color/contrast excellent!
AGeoJO wrote:
I screwed up the opportunity to take this bird dance for about 2 seconds or so after waiting almost 3 hours yesterday. I had the Wide-AF mode on yesterday and there were some leaves nearby and the camera focus on those leaves no matter what I tried. While that mode worked really well on flying owls at wide open space but not so in this case since these tiny birds hang out at trees all the time and there bound to be branches and or leaves that fooled this AF mode. By the time I changed the AF mode, it stopped dancing.... . I could only capture the bird while it was perching on a branch. Oh, well. I will go back to the spot tomorrow and try my luck again. BTW, these birds are in the mating season and the male birds dance to impress the females. What else is new ?...Show more →
Great image though Joshua. I really like the light and the colors.
For hummingbirds I use AF-C Flexible Spot S with focus on the little eye.
Should work like a charm for this little guy as well. But you knew that already.
It's hard to switch gears if one has only a second or two. Good luck next time.
This mural in downtown San Antonio was built by renowned Mexican Architect/Artist, Juan O'Gorman in time for the 1968 fair. The massive piece of art was built of about 400,000 rock chips cemented into meter square tiles. There are twelve colors in the mural and eleven of them are natural stones from Mexico. There was one shade of blue that he could not find, and that they had to get from Italy. The impressive mural is 130 ft long and 30 ft tall.
More from Vesterålen in northern Norway. I mostly used the CV 35/1.7, but here are some B&Ws from the Russian 50mm Monocle/Monolens. The construction in #6 is for drying fish.
k-h.a.w wrote:
Great image though Joshua. I really like the light and the colors.
For hummingbirds I use AF-C Flexible Spot S with focus on the little eye.
Should work like a charm for this little guy as well. But you knew that already.
It's hard to switch gears if one has only a second or two. Good luck next time.
K-H.
Hi K-H., thank you! I tried to get flying action of this bird; hence the Wide-AF mode. As it turned out this bird is significantly smaller but yet, faster than than burrowing owls. I will concentrate on this bird's dancing ritual when I go out there again next time around. Luckily, the location is even closer to my house than that of the burrowing owls.
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Here is the first image from yesterday''s session using the Sigma 135mm f/1.8 Art at wide open aperture
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. I like the 24-70 GM a lot, the size is my biggest complain.
