Gunzorro wrote:
Werner -- Ghostly image -- very fine work!
Chuck -- Great sunrise results with that CV 40/1.2. I am still grateful for you selling me the Loxia 35, but now you have me thinking about this CV lens too, along with a lot of other's images posted here on FM.
Thank you! You do so well with that Loxia 35 I'm not sure you should ever give that one up. The Voigtlander Noxton 40mm is a nice lens for sure. Lot's of character at the wide open apertures and nice and sharp with plenty of resolution closed down at landscape apertures. My landscape kit is now 16-35 GM, (CV 15 if I want to go smaller) Loxia 25, Voigtlander 40, Loxia 85 and either the Batis 135 or the 100-400 GM depending on how long (and heavy) I want to go. Your Nikon 45 f/2.8 PC-E looks very nice as well!
Chuck Coyne wrote:
Thanks Chuck! I doubt I'll ever sell the Loxia 35 (or the L21). The Loxia 35 suits me the best of all my lenses.
Thanks for mentioning the results on the Nikon 45 PC-E. I was doing A-B comparison with the Canon 45 TS-E with Sigma MC-11 today, using two camera bodies, then switching lenses and bodies and carrying on with more A-B examples. Wow, what a brain-twister going over all the comparisons in LR! The Nikon looks very good and has some advantages over the Canon in sharpness, CA fringing and color; but the Canon has better veiling flare management and a curvature of field lending toward much deeper near to far sharpness, and great color. There is no perfect anything!
Your CV 40/1.2 looks really cool and useful! Looking forward to more images with it. ...Show more →
Remember the motmot in the clearing of the jungle from a few pages back? Here is the.same guy but a gentle breeze made the small branch was perching sway back and forth. I noticed that the motmot managed to keep its head still while letting the body sway with the branch. It applied some counter movement on the head only. Somehow, it reminded me of the action of an “optical steady shot” in Sony’s term.
I still had my 1.4X TC and I changed the parameter to get a lower shutter speed enough so that it would register the movement of the branch and body while showing the head perfectly still. Well, I got a cooperative motmot here anyway to experiment with. So, here is the image out of a few that best shows the effect.
AGeoJO wrote:
Remember the motmot in the clearing of the jungle from a few pages back? Here is the.same guy but a gentle breeze made the small branch was perching sway back and forth. I noticed that the motmot managed to keep its head still while letting the body sway with the branch. It applied some counter movement on the head only. Somehow, it reminded me of the action of an “optical steady shot” in Sony’s term.
I still had my 1.4X TC and I changed the parameter to get a lower shutter speed enough so that it would register the movement of the branch and body while showing the head perfectly still. Well, I got a cooperative motmot here anyway to experiment with. So, here is the image out of a few that best shows the effect....Show more →
Here are a few direct comparison shots at mid-aperture between the Canon 45 TS-E/Sigma MC-11 and the Nikon 45 PC-E/Commlite Pro V06. PP settings are the same for each pair, except perhaps slight exposure adjustment in LR.
