Gosh, so much great work! Joshua, Bob, Peire, Ronny, and so many others! I almost daren't post, all the more as I haven't been so active recently. Still, 2 with my Loxia 50mm f:2.0.
I would love to learn more about this Rodenstock lens and Zork system. Awesome result!
Frogfish, Istambul is possibly the one city where you can never have too wide a lens. Very large buildings, and not enough room to step back. I beg to differ with you on the preliminary pics from the 16-35. I find them quite encouraging, with very good colours, great sharpness up close, and lots of 3D. Just my $0.02
Those buildings look as if they were influenced by german Bauart from the end on 1920s .
The MD 24/2.8 does very well in your picture here.I've sold mine some times ago,because it flared a lot on the NEX5N,being softer in sides/corners than MC W.Rokkor SI/without SI.
With the advent of A7 I realized that Minolta "plain" MD lenses are often a very good match for it.They have better coatings and were constructed to assure more even sharpness across the frame,being optimized for wide open performance at the same time.
According to my latest tendency - using smaller and lighter lenses,I consider buying a 24/2.8 MD again to test it on the A7.
Peire wrote:
Those buildings look as if they were influenced by german Bauart from the end on 1920s .
The MD 24/2.8 does very well in your picture here.I've sold mine some times ago,because it flared a lot on the NEX5N,being softer in sides/corners than MC W.Rokkor SI/without SI.
With the advent of A7 I realized that Minolta "plain" MD lenses are often a very good match for it.They have better coatings and were constructed to assure more even sharpness across the frame,being optimized for wide open performance at the same time.
According to my latest tendency - using smaller and lighter lenses,I consider buying a 24/2.8 MD again to test it on the A7.
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This building style is from the same period or before and is called "The Amsterdam school". They are famous for ther brickwork and odd shapes and there is a lot of it in Amsterdam.
The MD 24 is a nice lens but it can have some nasty distortion in some ( architectural) situations. Difficult to correct.
@ Philipe; beautiful shot of the pear! Nice light.
The bottom 30% is a second frame stitched to the first, as I wanted render the Pacific ocean as more expansive than was possible in one landscape format shot.
Really nice set, Joshua! Great job! The lighting was blah when we were there, so I have nothing good to show for it. We took the balloon ride one morning and didn't have much joy/luck either. It took off it little late - we were almost the last ones - so we missed the first/best light … and we've had to go a little higher (not so good for photography) to catch the wind. And no mist anywhere. Two insipid mornings in Bagan.
There was very little wind so the balloon had to fly a little higher which doesn't make for
AGeoJO wrote:
Hi Ronny and Peire, your images taken with Minolta lenses are really awesome ! I bought a few Minolta lenses in the last several months, too and they are great. Maybe clinically not as good as those of Zeiss, for sure they are different but they render nice images.
Here are a few more images from Old Bagan, Myanmar. The first one was taken from the first morning I was there and the other two from the following morning. Two different moods, for sure. On the second morning there was a dense layer of cloud covering the sun that didn't breakup to my chagrin. Above that thick cloud layer it was clear and the sun bright light was over powering without any filtering like on the first morning. Anyway, two different mornings at this location resulted in two different effects of the sunrise.
On the 4th The outline of the sun, since I was using a 50-ish mm lens for that image is actually smaller than implied. However, due to the light intensity, the surrounding area of the sun became over exposed as well, creating a sun "circle" that appears significantly larger than the lens of that focal length would normally yield. If I go back next year, I will take a hot air balloon on one morning for sure to get a different perspective....Show more →
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! I bought a few Minolta lenses in the last several months, too and they are great. Maybe clinically not as good as those of Zeiss, for sure they are different but they render nice images.
