Pair the Voigtlander 15/4.5 III with the VM-E helicoid adapter and you can get literally inches close to your subject! I have to play with this more but the ability to focus close is much more than I anticipated. I was so close to the top of this fire hydrant I was worried about the lens touching it. Shot at either f/4.5 or 5.6
Congrats on your new lens, Bob, and on the great use you make of it! Care to comment on the difference you see between it and your S-Z FE 16-35?
Samuli, Joshua, Bob, Michiel, Willem, great work!
OK, time for me to put up a couple of shots. ZM 35 f:1.4, wide open. The first one with the Hawks' close-up adapter, obviously.
teh_rebel wrote: AGeoJO, great photos from Iceland! looks like you had better weather than I did when I was there a couple weeks earlier
Thanks! We had to change the plan a little bit and spent more time in Reykjavik in the first two days because of a severe snow storm with gale force wind. But after that we had somewhat fair weather conditions. Rapidly changing, as you know, the sun would be up but it was windy and 10-15 minutes later dark clouds were hanging overhead, followed by snow fall or snowy rain. It would clear up pretty fast and the sun would peek again.
Regardless of the weather your images are great!
Ronny _Olsson wrote:
Wow awesome shot Joshua!! You killing me
As you know Sweden is just a short flight away, Ronnie. What's stopping you ? It is worth a visit. Wait until winter though as the season for the ice cave exploration is over now. That and the glacier lagoon/beach are simply gorgeous and unique..
philber wrote:
+2 Very, very Wow!, Joshua. Congrats!
AGeoJO wrote:
Thanks! We had to change the plan a little bit and spent more time in Reykjavik in the first two days because of a severe snow storm with gale force wind. But after that we had somewhat fair weather conditions. Rapidly changing, as you know, the sun would be up but it was windy and 10-15 minutes later dark clouds were hanging overhead, followed by snow fall or snowy rain. It would clear up pretty fast and the sun would peek again.
Still your images are great though!
As you know Sweden is just a short flight away, Ronnie. What's stopping you? It is worth a visit. Wait until winter though as the season for the ice cave exploration is over now. That and the glacier lagoon/beach are simply gorgeous and unique..
Awesome images above Rob. Looks to me like should use your A7r more!
Ronny...I think you'll like the 80-200/4. It's very good stopped down a touch.
Here are a couple with the ZM Planar 50
Gregg
Joshua, teh_rebel - great sets from Iceland!
Bob - congrats on your new Voigtlander 15/4.5. Do you still have many larger SLR lenses?
Philippe – I’ve been delaying my purchase of a close focus adapter for a while, but your images clearly help my decision to get one soon
This shot was just a few min after I took the waterfall photo from previous post. As you can see, snow started coming down hard.
A7R + CY 35-70/3.4
"The Black Church" .. nothing but white in the background
A7R + CY 35-70/3.4
Awesome cliffs but weather was insane. Super cold and like 30-40mph winds. Didn't really have time to setup tripod since storm was coming through
A7R + Voigtlander 40/1.4
Same lens as above. You can see the storm coming quickly
Oh, the depth in those CY zoom shots, rebel!
Here: (i) Tibetans will keep on walking until the end, this man is very happy being at the center of the Tibetan universe, the Jokhang Temple; (ii) People cycle endlessly around the inner route called the Barkhor, some stop to give prayer to the 7th century building which holds the Jowo statue, the most important work of art in the Tibetan Buddhist world. A fire control person tends the burner; juniper smoke fills the air. (i) CY100/3.5, (ii) FE55, both a7r.
hiepphotog wrote:
Joshua, beautiful series. The previous page you had a really nice series there, not that the page is any less spectacular.
Thank you, Hiep!
Ronny _Olsson wrote:
Joshua.. I go to Iceland in late September
So post more pictures so I yearn even more
Awesome work so far from you
Great, Ronny! You will enjoy it!
JaKo wrote:
Joshua, teh_rebel - great sets from Iceland!
Thank you, Jack!
Here are a few more images captured at Jökulsárlón, the unique "glacier beach". My understanding there is only another location in South America in the world that has similar conditions but the grandeur of that place is somewhat pale compared to that of Jökulsárlón.
Glacier pieces and drift ice from the nearby lagoon drift into the sea but they were washed back ashore into the black sandy beach.. They are buffeted by waves and wind and getting smaller and smaller over time. The temperature is around freezing but the windchill that day made it really a cold evening and we shot until almost dark..
So, yes, it is clear now: we have to go to Iceland...
@ Philip and Rebel, yes that is what I observed as well, the great depth of the CY zoom.
Sebboh you really get the most out of that 24mm minolta, it draws really special. Yet, my experience is that it behaved much better on my NEX5N than on my A7r. What is the FLE adjustment you talk about?
RobDickinson, you should pop in more often...
Great pictures eveyone.
Here a photo of last Summer with the Rokkor-HH 35/1.8. I do not use the lens often because it is relatively heavy and I prefer 28mm most of the time. Yet, it can produce images with some nice character. For comparison I posted the same photo unprocessed and uncropped in the Rokkor thread. The difference is not that big, some modest defringing and a touch of contrast (I had to reduce highlights and lighten up shadows in both photo's).
? It is worth a visit. Wait until winter though as the season for the ice cave exploration is over now. That and the glacier lagoon/beach are simply gorgeous and unique..
