Finally I managed to gather enough courage to post a couple I took this evening. This thread is what I enjoy looking at throughout the day and had a desire to post a picture but always felt mine are not good enough. But today I decided I would post now and learn from you excellent people and of course great photographers. Criticism welcome!
Candid at asian food festival in wichita kansas..
a7 with FD 85 1.2 at f1.2 or f2.
Tim, Werner, Peberhardt(Welcome to the thread! Nice image!),Old Raven, Fred (Def a big print!), Chris(Welcome also!), and Jfreak...Great image, all...Love this thread!
A few taken with my Contax G90 with 21mm spacer and stopped down...I love this lens!!
Gregg
pinholecam, last one with the boy and bike is beautiful. It has a timeless atmosphere.
Very cute Greggf!
A few from a lake near home, taken yesterday. Even though I grew up even further north I always get surprised at how quickly days get shorter in fall. This was at noon. See how low the sun is already!
A7 and C/Y 28mm/2.8 (all are stitched - I need to get a wider lens soon).
Here are some images that I took last evening at the Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, PA a little before sunset. The light had really failed and I had to do more work than usual in LR5.6 to pull these images as they appear. All images taken in wind with my tripod mounted Leica R 280mm f4 Apo Telyt lens and my Leica R 1.4X Apo Extender with my A7r camera; effective aperture at f11.
The photos on this thread amaze me every single time I come in! Thanks for sharing everyone.
Here's a small contribution from me. First 3 with CV 40/1.4 and the other 3 with Leica Tele-Elmar 135/4, all shot on the Sony a7s. All wide open with the Leica and f/2 with the CV.
So many great images here. I'm wearing out the like button. Thank you for the 'likes'.
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I was privileged to be part of a surgical team that travelled to Antigua Guatemala to do surgeries during the day & in the evenings...well, let's just say that we weren't roughing it. Great meals and a photographers' paradise....more of a "workcation" really.
I did a lot of early morning and night shooting with variable success. (I made the mistake of using Auto ISO and regretted that.)
I often and annoyingly boast how good many of the old Minolta lenses are. This photograph is an 80% crop from one of my favorite lenses—a sleeper if you will. It is a third generation Minolta MD, 50mm F1.4 that I paid $35. Had I not sharpened the photograph to emphasize the water, and not said it was a crop, I do not think anyone could tell from the full frame.
Zeiss glass on my A7R can come close to this clarity, but its color nowhere near this pure. Canon glass captures a much livelier rendition, but cropped at 80%, seems very much grainy, and the colors artificial.
The lens has one large weakness. At F1.4, like most old glass, the depth of focus remarkably shallow and the frame takes on a milky out of focus, appearance. Nothing is perfect—I guess. Or perhaps $5,695 for a Leica WATE can buy perfection, but at half the price of my daughters Honda, I would be afraid to take it anywhere.
Old rokkors have great colours and are very sharp stopped down a little.In fact wo they are sharp either,but sharpness perception is diminished by weiling (high sharpness-low contrast combination at wide apertures).Colours are lovely.Clean,clear and vivid.I found myself using Rokkors more often that Zeisses lately.
