So many pages of new pictures, many of them awesome. Dale, Bob, Ronny, Jack, Samuli, Charles, all the usual suspects plus many new ones. Wow! And great stuff with the new FE 35 f:1.4, too. I see why you love it!
JaKo wrote:
Great set Charles! Like the low light smoothness of this lens. I guess FE 35 is to stay, but how they go sisde by side on Kolari modded bodies?
Hi Jack
Thanks! Yes the FE 35/1.4 is here to stay. I will admit this is one of favourite native lens with the Loxia 50 I have tried on the A7rM and it still looks great. I didn't realize the flexible focusing spot on A7II is the smallest in area compared to the A7r M and the A7s. What I find that ability to accurately focus on small detail is best with the A7II. Obviously the A7s is best in low light.
More shots from today. The last shot is capture of model with a photographer heading for a late afternoon shoot.
It's been far too long since I posted a landscape image. Most of my photography documents family life but I do get out, sometimes.....
I recently spent a week with family at Joshua Tree National Park and wanted to enjoy some nice dark skies for a change. (This is a cross post from the Landscape forum.)
Image details:
Sony A7r
Sky - 14mm, f/2.8, 4 minutes, ISO 800, 6 exposures, tracked a few feet in front of the monolith with an Astrotrac
Foreground - 17mm, f/14, ISO 400 (windy), 1/5 sec, single exposure same morning at twilight
I took sky and land images with both the 14mm Samyang and 17mm ts-e, knowing the advantages of each for this shot, hoping a single lens would do the job. The 17mm had too much coma during review onsite so I switched to the 14mm Samyang. In post I played with the 14mm's foreground keystoning and tired of the process quickly. After cropping the composite image for composition, the shifted 17mm simply gave a superior distortion free result.
For astronomy buffs, Saturn is seen at the upper right of Scorpius. In the middle of Sagittarius is a recently discovered supernova, Nova Sagittarii 2015 No. 2, which is visible to the naked eye.
Excellent shots last couple pages! Here are some more images from spring break. These with the ZM 35/2 Biogon...one of my first real outings with the lens on the A7rM...and I'm very impressed so far. The lens really comes alive!
I have tried on the A7rM and it still looks great. I didn't realize the flexible focusing spot on A7II is the smallest in area compared to the A7r M and the A7s. What I find that ability to accurately focus on small detail is best with the A7II. Obviously the A7s is best in low light.
