Werner_Utsch >> great shot! It was "HDR" from one RAW or multiexposure or exposing on lights and pulling back shadows?
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Here are some shots from a recent "retro touristic" wedding First set is from the morning before the wedding.. all with A7r.
Thats a single exposure (more on the lights), shadows and lights adjusted in LR.
DR of the sensor is really great.
Werner,
You continue to blow me away with your superb 24-70 pics! They are not only great pics but contradicts much of what I read about this lens. Its because of you that I have decided to buy this lens, which arrives next week. Fingers crossed!
Dave
Here are a few more from the Tetons, and a couple from the other NPs too. The DR of the A7R is truly amazing. I took several HDR series, but didn't use them, since I could just push the highlight and shadow sliders in LR. I couldn't do that with my 5D2. The DR is as great as Fred demonstrated in his 5D2 vs D800 article.
dbehrens wrote:
Werner,
You continue to blow me away with your superb 24-70 pics! They are not only great pics but contradicts much of what I read about this lens. Its because of you that I have decided to buy this lens, which arrives next week. Fingers crossed!
Dave
Hi Dave,
i hope the burden will be not to big for me.
The 24-70 is very versatile and much better, at least my copy, than its internet reputation.
You have of course to use the LR profile otherwise a shot like "Light " would not work due to strong distortion. With 36 mp you have a lot of headroom for these software corrections. Sharpness is very good as is micro contrast. I use the lens with no hesitation on the far and wide end, although it is said to be bad at the extremes.
Hope you will have fun, use it and don't be over critical!
Cheers
Werner
Adobe has a new lens profile for CV 12mm w/ Camera Raw 8.7 for CC release candidate and so I was trying it this morning. Now I have a new lens CV12mm on A7R shots:
Werner_Utsch wrote:
Hi Dave,
i hope the burden will be not to big for me.
The 24-70 is very versatile and much better, at least my copy, than its internet reputation.
You have of course to use the LR profile otherwise a shot like "Light " would not work due to strong distortion. With 36 mp you have a lot of headroom for these software corrections. Sharpness is very good as is micro contrast. I use the lens with no hesitation on the far and wide end, although it is said to be bad at the extremes.
Hope you will have fun, use it and don't be over critical!
Cheers
Werner ...Show more →
I agree with Werner it is a fine lens. I think it is the heavy distortion that puts people off. But 'distortion is the norm with mirrorless lens as it can be corrected in the EVF unlike an optical VF. And of course it is easily corrected in Lightroom via the lens profile.
(In case you didnt know, you can avoid constantly checking the lens profile box with every shot in LR by checking it once, holding down the 'alt' key and then clicking the set as default button that appears.)
jimo wrote:
I just returned from a lengthy trip through Banff NP, Olympic NP, Oregon Coast, Teton and Yellowstone NPs and finally Badlands NP. You can see the little Scamp RV I used in the first pic. I took my A7R and a ZF 2.8/25, CY 1.7/50 and Nikon 2.5/105. I had been shooting mostly FDn lenses but got tired of the flare issues, so recently started acquiring Zeiss glass. Mostshots are with the ZF 2.8/25 or CY 1.7/50. I couldn't be happier with this camera and set of lenses.
Jimo great rendering in this one, I would assume 1.7/50 was used for it?
I decided to take a set of C/Y Zeisses instead of Zs for yesterday's autumn landscaping.Their microcontrast and colour rendition is somehow muted compared to Z series equivalents.Also corner sharpness/smearing in wa lenses like 25mm or 35mm is a bit more pronounced,but I like the overall look they rendered during this grey,hazy day.
First set is from the morning before the wedding.. all with A7r.
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