Excellent images, everyone! There are so many great images by great photographers to list here .
I dabbled into the "wildlife realm" using a newly bought Minolta 500mm f/8 reflex lens. Here are a two images (sorry for my double posting) using that lens from yesterday at a local park.
Contax Planar T* 2/45 G @ f/8, HDR(2s,8s,30s and 72s), ISO 100, B+W 1000x ND and maybe B+W polarizer (shutter times indicate that it was not used but I have memory that I used it, so maybe or maybe not...)
90/2 Olympus Macro is one of those exceptional lenses that are a source of pride for each manufacturer and are a milestone in the development of photographic optics. Explicitly different from my 24 other lenses of this brand. The colors are more saturated and vivid. Images sharper and more contrasty from full aperture openings. 3D effect at hand.Beautifully blurred background. Very little chromatic aberration at f2.0 and f2.8 - even a little smaller than the Zeiss Makro Planar 100/2. The robust design and excellent workmanship. Great as a macro and short telephoto.
Yesterday I posted one typical macro shot of a flower - today a couple as a regular short tele.All with A7 and at f2.0.
First, absolutely top notch work on this thread. It almost gets overwhelming, and hard to comment on all the incredible images.
I've been sucked into a 'One Camera, One Lens, One Year' challenge. I'm using the A7 and Zeiss 35mm 2.8. I do a bit of paid work, so on a wedding I'm not going to be able to go in and use only one camera and lens, but it has been very beneficial already. It is great to have a goal and game plan and trying to work within those parameters. A few of the images from the challenge.
photoomaha wrote:
First, absolutely top notch work on this thread. It almost gets overwhelming, and hard to comment on all the incredible images.
I've been sucked into a 'One Camera, One Lens, One Year' challenge. I'm using the A7 and Zeiss 35mm 2.8. I do a bit of paid work, so on a wedding I'm not going to be able to go in and use only one camera and lens, but it has been very beneficial already. It is great to have a goal and game plan and trying to work within those parameters. A few of the images from the challenge.
Very interesting project... were it is possible to see the results? Do you have an Internet site or a Flicker account? Thanks.
Manuel
ManuelLaMantia wrote:
Thank you very much Michiel... now I have some pains... I think Bob infected me with some GAS bacillus
Manuel
Yeah, I know, Bob, and Michiel too tend to do this to people. Manuel, in order to stop them, you should tell them that some new, very expensive lens is fantastic. That keeps them quiet for a while. But only for a while, and then you have to buy another fantastic, very expensive lens to do it again. You can say that this is as much GAS as what comes from them, and as expensive or more, and you would be right. But at least, it would be YOUR GAS and not theirs. Just my $0.02.
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