Greggf wrote:
I really like the 2nd & 3rd shots Dale. The 90 Elmarit is fantastically sharp, with brilliant colors!!
Gregg
Thanks Gregg, the lens is certainly an excellent find for me especially as I took it in a lens swap and it is a lens I never would have purchased. I just thought it would be good material for future trades. Now I realize what a great lens it is and it is definitely a keeper. I confess these pictures are an experiment with my trying to match Fuji colors in my development profile. Thanks for the compliment.
By the way, I am very impressed with the results you are getting with your new lens.
for the best, we have a large extended family of nuthatches and they're all *ssholes. they only eat sunflower seeds and dump out all the other seeds to get to them.
lostinjapan wrote:
It took me a lot of trial and error before I was able to make a good profile for the lens, The instructions for the Flat Field plug in say you need to create a new profile for each lighting condition and aperture setting. I never found that to be necessary.
What worked for me to take a large plain white sheet of paper and set it up the shade with no direct lighting or shadows falling on it. Then I focused the lens at 1meter at F/8 and overexpose the image by two stops. (I tried everything from 0 to 4 stops, but two worked the best). After imported into LR, it has to be converted to DNG to use the plug in. Once it was in LR, I adjusted the brightness to just below clipping, cleaned up any a few dust spots and set the white balance to get the image as close to a natural white as possible. Then I exported it as another DNG file to use only with the FF plugin.
Works perfectly for me. When I use the CV12mm I found it works best if I just set it on F/8 and set the focus point at about 1m. Essentially everything is in focus from 30cm to forever. I am quite happy with the results on the A7r, it is wonderful lens.
haven't used the 12mm, but using the LR plugin with other lenses i found i got better results by having a near focus and far focus profile as well as a profile for each aperture.
Some really great shots on these last few pages. Here are a few more with the Rokkor 250mm f5.6 on my A7r
The out of focus bits are usually not great with this lens but sometimes the effect is quite interesting:
This next one is of a fishing boat in the Golfe de Saint-Florent Corsica with Cap Corse in the background:
Sadly the fishing boat is slightly out of focus but I love the colours: Corsican Fishing Boat-0536 by petergthomas, on Flickr
And finally we came across this band playing on the end of a very small jetty in the middle of nowhere whilst walking along the coast path around the Desert des Agriates in Corsica. I think they were filming for a video and we, plus a few others, stopped to listen. Any of our French contributors know who they are?
The composition of this shot could be better but I was trying to be casual and discrete in order not to distract them during their performance (that’s my excuse anyway!)
Tempting! 
