Went to the Outer Banks with some friends last week. The lighthouse pictured is the Bodie Island Light.
#1-3 are all taken with the kit 28-70.
#4 was with a Minolta Rokkor-HG 35/2.8 (52mm version). The sensor was really dirty on this shot, but has since been cleaned. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to clean it before I got home, and a few other great shots were kinda ruined.
In other news, I'm heading to the UK soon for about two weeks. The first week will be spent in Scotland, while the second we'll be making our way from Glasgow to London with stops in York, Oxford and Reading. I'm hoping to do some street shooting, but mostly take landscapes, architecture shots and portraits, though photography on this trip is for memory purposes, not getting fantastic photos. I've rented a FE 16-35/4 and will take my Rokkor 58/1.2. I'm on the fence about taking my Contax/Zeiss 135/2.8, and am not planning on taking the kit 28-70, a Konica AR 40/1.8 or the Rokkor 35/2.8.
Does that lens selection seem reasonable for a trip that isn't really focused on photography?
Magnolia hypoleuca - I was lucky to take the first ever picture of the blooming flower.It's
philogenetically very primitive,so my wife used to say that looking at it she can almost feel the ground shaking after passage of a dinosaur
Brought out my Rokinon 12/2 with the A7 II this morning. It doesn't cover the full FF sensor, but the image circle is large enough that I get some extra coverage beyond the 1.5x 10MP crop. This first one is with the 12/2, cropped to about 1.25x (15MP), with an FOV equivalent of around 15mm. Second shot is a stitch with the 55/1.8.
Thank you Ronny.The 85/2.0 Rokkor is a great lens with respect of sharpness and colour.Smoothness-of-bokeh-wise it may show some deterioration in stronger backlight (for example hexagons in the first picture),versus 85/1.7 MC/MD,but it doesn't spoil it's favourable picture in my mind.
Ronny _Olsson wrote:
Rene: don't know how you get that tone in Color Efex Pro and Analog Efex Pro .. I use it and I don't get to look like that I like it a lot
thank you very much dear Ronny. no idea, have at some point a mixture made and stored . incomprehensible . am not an expert
I like it a lot 
