recovery appears to be going well. i'm allowed to walk around reasonably normally in a boot now. my surgeon wants me to continue wearing a boot forever to prevent any chance of ever reinjuring it and my physical therapist thinks i should get rid of the boot and start weight training…
Gregg, last one is very sweet! Nice low contrast B&W processing too.
sebboh, impressive bird photography with a wide angle.
darrellc, I like how your photos often give a sense of wonder and seeing the world from the children's perspective.
Finally got a second lens for my A7; C/Y Sonnar 85mm/2.8. I wanted something of decent size, price and quality for the occasional tighter landscapes and "stuff". It's very sharp and rendering seems nice too, so I think this will be great. Eventually I want something wider than 28mm too.
Yesterday I tried it with my old Canon 500D close-up lens, since I happened to already have a step-up ring in the right size.
sebboh wrote:
recovery appears to be going well. i'm allowed to walk around reasonably normally in a boot now. my surgeon wants me to continue wearing a boot forever to prevent any chance of ever reinjuring it and my physical therapist thinks i should get rid of the boot and start weight training…
Hah, so much for expensive educations, eh? They can't even agree on a basic approach.
I have heard of this schism before. The one side thinks that peace and calm lets everything heal up nicely and that too much motion will cause further damage. The other side thinks that the body adjusts the healing to the requirements, i.e. how much power is needed to handle what you throw at it.
I was in a motorcycle accident a few decades ago, and my ankle got trapped between the bike and the truck, and my ligaments got stretched the hell out of. I wore a cast for 5 or 6 weeks, and when my foot came out again, it was stiff beyond belief. I still don't have the full range of motion back. I wish that I had gone the other way back then, but probably some compromise path would be prudent.
I have heard that pro sports therapists get their clients back on the feet as quickly as possible, but I don't know if they are planning long term, or just another couple of years of a pro sports career.
Olaf G wrote:
That looks pretty good...
I will have a look for a 500D close-up lens and give it a try with my Sonnar.
Thanks! Yes, it works surprisingly well. Shutter speed on several of the photos I posted was just 1/60, so there may have been some motion blur, but in good light it's actually very sharp. Don't know if you have used close-up lenses before, but keep in mind that the focus area/field is very limited. I haven't measured it, but it seemed to me that I could only move back and forth about 10cm before I lost focus in either direction (too close or too far away) and to get those 10cm you have to turn the focus ring all the way from MFD to infinity. It can't replace a true macro lens, but for someone like me who just like to move closer from time to time it's great.
HelenaN wrote:
Don't know if you have used close-up lenses before, but keep in mind that the focus area/field is very limited. I haven't measured it, but it seemed to me that I could only move back and forth about 10cm before I lost focus in either direction (too close or too far away) and to get those 10cm you have to turn the focus ring all the way from MFD to infinity. It can't replace a true macro lens, but for someone like me who just like to move closer from time to time it's great.
Thank you for this helpful information. My intention is to use it as a backup solution on longer journeys where I prefer to travel light than to carrying around more lenses or bellows/helicoids with enlarger lenses...
Attempted my first astro photo with the A7s and Samyang 14/2.8 last week. Already looking forward to the next new moon. Not sure why the heck I shot this at f/2.8. I had plenty of ISO left to get the foreground in better focus.
I wanted something of decent size, price and quality for the occasional tighter landscapes and "stuff". It's very sharp and rendering seems nice too, so I think this will be great. Eventually I want something wider than 28mm too.
