Spring of this year has come late, but today was one of those exceptional,mysterious days,when the sun shined heavily on the cooled ground and during all the day everything was shrouded in a luminous, sunny haze,a brightness of a warm,green-yellow tint....
Minolta MD2 Rokkor 200/2.8 was taken for the first time at large.
I found it a very decent,fast tele lens of it's times.Sharp overall,all chromatic aberrations well under control,negligible distortion.
A72+Minolta MD2 Rokkor 200/2.8 at f8
A72+Minolta MD2 Rokkor 200/2.8 at f2.8
and one taken a few weeks ago,through the fine,plastic mosquito net during the last snowfall,at f2,8
Another newcomer - the Yashica ML Macro 100/3.5 has also been taken recently for shootout.
Great macro and short telephoto (that needs stopping down to f5.6 at infinity for even sharpness across the FF frame),being superb macro,even wo at the same time.Compared to the Makro Planar 100/2.8 it lacks some of microcontrast and colour vividness,but not by much.No discernible problems with chromatic aberrations whatsoever.
A72 +Yashica ML Macro 100/3.5 at f 3,5
A72+Yashica ML Macro 100/3.5 at f 5.6 - the lens is very sharp across the FF frame then:
Carl Zeiss Biogon T* 2.8/21 G @ f/2.8, 1/100s, A7(Kolari v2) @ ISO 80, OptoSigma SLB-50-2000PM + Hoya Pro1 CIR-PL 82mm
I really love rendering style of Biogon 21mm, but it's so wide that it's really hard to find any use for the lens.
Peire wrote:
Spring of this year has come late, but today was one of those exceptional,mysterious days,when the sun shined heavily on the cooled ground and during all the day everything was shrouded in a luminous, sunny haze,a brightness of a warm,green-yellow tint....
Minolta MD2 Rokkor 200/2.8 was taken for the first time at large.
I found it a very decent,fast tele lens of it's times.Sharp overall,all chromatic aberrations well under control,negligible distortion.
Finally got out to do a little shooting down by the lake. It hasn't gone above freezing the last two days. I think Spring forgot to look at the calendar! It's supposed to be in the mid 50s!!!
Two images from CR of scarlet macaws. These birds are wild but they visit this farm during certain times of the day because they know they can somehow still their hunger there....