clause wrote:
Well just got the A7 not too long ago and upgraded from 5N. So far I'm really impressed and happy with the purchase. Just getting use to it now. So here are a few picture from it. Its kinda shaky because of light tripod and windy night. Taken from the kit lens.
Welcome and enjoy, it's a nice camera indeed I dig the nightscape shot, well-done
carstenw wrote:
Congratulations Derek! Contrary to what others say, I have heard from friends (no personal experience, I am afraid) that once you are past the first couple of years, two is not much more work than one.
1. Derek.... CONGRATS
2. As a pediatrician for over 25 years.... YOUR friends have LIED to you about it not being much more work after the first couple of years, especially when they become in activities which take place on OPPOSITE SIDES OF TOWN
I'm interested to know why you needed so many frames to stitch for this image ? I would think this shot could just as easily have been achieved with one frame. I don't see any sign of stitching for the sake of bokeh panorama and it looks to have done some weird things to the specular highlights - something the Rokkor is renowned for it's quality of. What am I missing ? Thanks !
The truck had a wire fence (one of those temporary ones put up next to building works) about 1-2 metres in front of it. I only had the rokkor with me at the time and a single shot would have captured the fence too. The only way to get the shot was to shoot a few millimetres away from the wire so that it would be out of focus enough to not make it into the shot. Unfortunately it seems to have shown up in the bokeh with strange vertical wobbles in the specular highlights
Frogfish wrote:
I'm interested to know why you needed so many frames to stitch for this image ? I would think this shot could just as easily have been achieved with one frame. I don't see any sign of stitching for the sake of bokeh panorama and it looks to have done some weird things to the specular highlights - something the Rokkor is renowned for it's quality of. What am I missing ? Thanks !
I don't know the details, but that looks considerably wider than a 58mm FOV. If so, then it'll take that many images to properly get all facets of the scene for stitching.
Plus, sometimes people do shots "just because"
I've done even simple stitches with an 85mm lens, fairly far away from a vehicle, and to get the scene I wanted would take 10-11 shots very easily. Were I closer, it would take much more.
Hers are some images that I took last evening at the Trexler Nature Preserve in Schnecksville, PA. The first is taken with my tripod mounted Leica R 280mm f4 Apo Telyt lens and my A7r and all of the flower images were taken with my tripod mounted Leica R 100mm f2.8 Apo-Macro-Elmarit lens and my A7r. All images processed in LR5.5; some images relativily heavily processed from RAW.
I really appreciate all these water and greenery shots from everyone - where I'm living now, I have to go out of my way to find something like that. But I got lots of dirt and cactus photos
One from this morning - my pup chilling on our rather unkempt bed
I dig the nightscape shot, well-done 
