fantastic shots!
can I ask you something? in the pic Morning in Shinjuku there is plenty of sun but you used 1/80, is this because you were at like f/22 or were you using filters?
I just got an ExpoDisc - it's pretty handy, though I haven't achieved white-balance nirvana yet. I can't shake the feeling that my photos are either slightly green or slightly purple. It's also good for taking calibration pictures for the Flat-Field plugin. So here's one with the Kolari-mod A7 and the 21 Super-Elmar-M, with the WB set through the ExpoDisc, an Adobe FF pass using a calibration shot through the ExpoDisc, and the Huelight v100 A7 color profile in LR5.
Very nice Twoeye! - I have happy memories of dropping into Tromsø on a cruise in 2010, the last cruise of the P&O ship Artemis (under that ownership/name). She's in the picture on the right.
It was very special for me because we accompanied my parents and my Dad had last sailed up the Norwegian coast as a very young British Merchant Navy radio officer, weeks after the end of WW II.
My family attended a local Ice Show featuring youngsters of all skill levels, and with special appearance by the 2011 US Champion. I set myself up for a fall by shooting with A7ii and a manual-focus Yashica 300/5.6 ML. I was wide-open the whole time, at ISO 1600, and getting about 1/100–1/200sec. DOF was too narrow for group choreographies, rapid focus changes without magnifier assist meant I missed focus most of the time, panning with IBIS caused a doubled-image effect, and the lighting changed with each second. Here's what I salvaged:
The fellow in blue shirt is Ryan Bradley, well known to the crowd and a dazzling skater. Besides some elegant dance sequences in his routine, I think I saw a couple of triple axels. He also performs a back flip that caught me by surprise and just about gave me a heart attack. Most of his moves were too fast to record using my gear.
Colors and exposure levels are SOOC, and look pretty nice. Nonetheless, I will use my monster Nikon and tele zoom next time. AF has its uses!
Greggf wrote:
Charles....happy anniversary! It's always nice to actually meet our fellow FMer's in person!
Michiel...those R 180/3.4 shots have incredible detail!
Jack...love the M 50 Lux asph and ZM 35 1.4 shots...
To all...some awesome images on these last few pages!
Took the Loxia 50 out yesterday on a walk...this lens really blows me away. I'm almost convinced that Zeiss & Leica developed this lens together. The pop is much more subtle than regular Zeiss-ness, but it's still there! And the bokeh, to my eye, really really feels( ok, I'm ready for a severe backlash!!) more Leica. You'll see what I mean when you take a look at the portrait of Gio below. Has a very nice glow wide open...
Gregg...Show more →
balga wrote
fantastic shots!
can I ask you something? in the pic Morning in Shinjuku there is plenty of sun but you used 1/80, is this because you were at like f/22 or were you using filters?
Thank you!
Good question. I think I was at maybe f/8; but this is a manual lens. I should have probably set the shutter speed to be 1/250 or something, for the sharpest shot possible, but I forgot
The camera tends to reduce shutter speed and maintain base ISO; ISO 100 in this case. That's why the shutter speed was low. I should probably switch to shutter priority...
. Congratulations and happy belated anniversary 
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