AGeoJO wrote:
Hi Mike, I am flattered - thank you!
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I posted a few images taken with the Voigtlander 40mm f/1.2 lens and I am truly impressed by its rendition. Here are a couple more... nothing earth shattering but again, I like how "snappy" that lens performs at f/1.4 or f/2.
kimknapp wrote:
Ronny,
Nice. How many images did you stack for this shot? I like shooting dragonflies, but usually I don't have a tripod with me and end up with head in focus OR wings in focus, not both 😒
Kim
Wow. As always, going through a few pages of this thread is both humbling and inspiring. Great, great work everyone!
Here's a sunrise from Thunder Hole, in Acadia National Park. I used Sony's Smooth Reflections app, which has been misbehaving. Anyone else experience the app just taking one pic and stopping in any of the presets like "Smoky Haze"? I can get the "custom" setting to work, but none of the others.
Almost every time I watch RAW files from photos taken with kit lenses for Sony NEX cameras, I have a curse in my mouth. But when I look at the final image after some PP, I forgive them and think it's good that they were with me on the spot. Small and light , which allows carrying around everywhere. I would imagine them to be better optically, but well, it does not look like it is in the foreseeable future.
A72+Sony E 55-210/4.5-6.3
Minolta "Plain" MD 50/1.2 - I've found some time to take a few pictures with it 6 months after purchase.A very good lens overall.Optically very similar to the MD2 Rokkor 50/1.2.And better than the MC Rokkor 58/1.2 (sharper,contrastier,less CA),but I still regard the 58/1.2 my favourite fast standard lens.It's oof blurr is hardly beatable.
A72+Minolta "plain" MD 50/1.2 wide open
It is not a master of the oof blurr at f1.2.It is not just "nervous".It is plain schizophrfenic.I should find some time to try it at f2,which I guess would look better.
Peire wrote:
Almost every time I watch RAW files from photos taken with kit lenses for Sony NEX cameras, I have a curse in my mouth. But when I look at the final image after some PP, I forgive them and think it's good that they were with me on the spot. Small and light , which allows carrying around everywhere. I would imagine them to be better optically, but well, it does not look like it is in the foreseeable future.
Minolta "Plain" MD 50/1.2 - I've found some time to take a few pictures with it 6 months after purchase.A very good lens overall.Optically very similar to the MD2 Rokkor 50/1.2.And better than the MC Rokkor 58/1.2 (sharper,contrastier,less CA),but I still regard the 58/1.2 my favourite fast standard lens.It's oof blurr is hardly beatable.
Showing this color as it really looks with digital cameras is a difficult task.To my satisfaction,your attempts were successful.
Despite the fact that the spring has been delayed by one month this year, from the beginning of April it broke with full power and accelerated enormously.So that now we have early summer, although this is only the end of May.
Delicious ,fresh asparagus have already appeared in the middle of April and are available now in abundance.From two weeks we have here a lot of beautiful,shapely ripe strawberries.Late varieties of cherry fruits,my favourite,that were typically ripe at the end of June are already ripe in the trees. This is incredible.I have never seen before have such things happened all through my life.
Close focusing adapters are real game changers.They make miracles by converting any lens into a close-up tool.Now some flowers that flowered this year much earlier than expected,to my great delight.
A72+Minolta "plain" MD 135/2.8 wide open on the close focusing adapter,wide open:
A72+Minolta MD Rokkor 85/2 wide open on the close focusing adapter,wide open:
session...
K-H.
