Sony FE Images Thread
p.961 #1Sony FE Images Thread
rji2goleez wrote:
Samuli - I just love that last image . . . the 3D and bokeh are wonderful.
Shows how subjective things like bokeh are... I find the nervous, double image rendering horrible and would not want to use that for landscapes. Stopped down, it is probably a non-issue, but wide open, it only serves to detract from the image.
Horses for courses, as they say.
I appreciate the ability to see images like this because like it or not, it helps inform my 'eye' for how I would prefer to manage a similar image (either through a lens purchase, or decisions made in the field).
---Michael
Samuli - I just love that last image . . . the 3D and bokeh are wonderful.
Shows how subjective things like bokeh are... I find the nervous, double image rendering horrible and would not want to use that for landscapes. Stopped down, it is probably a non-issue, but wide open, it only serves to detract from the image.
Horses for courses, as they say.
I appreciate the ability to see images like this because like it or not, it helps inform my 'eye' for how I would prefer to manage a similar image (either through a lens purchase, or decisions made in the field).
---Michael
Jul 02, 2015 at 09:46 AM
p.961 #2Sony FE Images Thread
Greggf wrote:
...Hiep...that 50 APO looks pretty sweet! So does the ZM 15...
Thank you. I love these two lenses, my Cron 28 just got neglected. I guess I save it for indoor family shots.
More shots from the ZM 15:
...Hiep...that 50 APO looks pretty sweet! So does the ZM 15...
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Jul 02, 2015 at 10:23 AM
p.961 #3Sony FE Images Thread
Samull - That ZE 35 1.4 looks really good to me. I really like the way you work with it. Sometimes I think you and I are working in different parts of the same forest. Maybe some day I will get a fast 35. There are a lot of choices now.
The fishermen in our city store nets on old trucks. I suppose they drive them to the boats. These shots are taken with the A7rM and the Asahi Super Takumar 50mm f/1.4
The fishermen in our city store nets on old trucks. I suppose they drive them to the boats. These shots are taken with the A7rM and the Asahi Super Takumar 50mm f/1.4
Jul 02, 2015 at 10:28 AM
p.961 #4Sony FE Images Thread
Thanks Gregg and everyone for the thumbs up.
Shot at Alviso, CA couple of days ago.
Shot at Alviso, CA couple of days ago.
Jul 02, 2015 at 11:12 AM
p.961 #5Sony FE Images Thread
mjm6 wrote:
Shows how subjective things like bokeh are... I find the nervous, double image rendering horrible and would not want to use that for landscapes. Stopped down, it is probably a non-issue, but wide open, it only serves to detract from the image.
Horses for courses, as they say.
I appreciate the ability to see images like this because like it or not, it helps inform my 'eye' for how I would prefer to manage a similar image (either through a lens purchase, or decisions made in the field).
Michael, exactly right!!!!!!! That is the richness of Alternative Lenses forum, here we see various rendering styles of lenses presented. You most likely would prefer this lens closed down to f/2.2 (medium distance) or f/2.5 (close distance), where boke is almost without character (some earlier posted photos, don't want to repost, so just links: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), but it might still have too much texture for your taste(?). Usually I use these "best apertures", but occasionally I prefer more rough rendering and use f/1.7. But it sounds (what I'm reading between the lines) that you would prefer more dead plastic boke = most likely Sony 35mm f/1.4 would suit your style much better. BTW. this lens has 3rd and again different boke rendering when shoot wide open (you also don't like that rendering style...)
Thanks to the forum I have seen enough of rendering style of FE28, FE1.4/35, FE24-70 and FE16-35 to understand that they are not for me (Thou I might be forced to get FE28 for aerial multirotor photography as it's so lightweight, if Batis 25 is too heavy). I could have avoided FE35 and FE55 as well, if I would have had enough patience to see enough pictures from them - But patience is not one of my virtues, and I got both of them as soon as they become available and soon realized that I don't like them. As a end result I don't currently shoot with them, and they wait for next event requiring AF (and where rendering style is irrelevant). To get some use I borrowed them to a friend. This year needed them only once for a funeral shoot as mostly my cell phone takes the photos, for which I would use them for.
My creative process may differ from majority, I want my tools to suit the situation. When I go shooting, I pick set of lenses, which rendering style matches my mood (and location/subject) - I rarely change lenses in the field. I mostly pick Zeiss ZE-series set (thou only 2 metabones EF adapters, have to use Loxia/G45/CY etc. as 3rd lens) but also Leica M set (may mix with Leica R 28 or 180), Contax C/Y set, Leica R set, Contax G set will see a lot of Finnish nature. Or if I want something completely different maybe Olympus OM set or Pentax K set. I shoot 90% of time with 3 cameras and I want the set of lenses will match each other quite well on rendering style and boke characteristics. Also sometimes I just go crazy and use for example 3 different normal lenses with completely different rendering styles like Contax G 2/45, Helios 44M-4 2/58 and Porst 1.4/55.
My worst nightmare for lenses would to be locked on shooting characterless lenses, which have nothing else to offer than sharpness and dead plastic boke (=kind of lenses, which might be "mathematically" very good and do well in in tests). That would be really boring for me. For sure sometimes that is also what I prefer (well, sharpness, can't see any reason to prefer dead plastic boke). So yes horses for courses, would not want aggressive hot blooded racing horse for lazy romantic Sunday ride even it's generally considered as the best horse... or a lazy donkey for a race
Image thread, something to post...searching...found:
Carl Zeiss APO-Sonnar T* 2/135 @ f/2.8, 1/15s, A7 @ ISO 100, Carl Zeiss T* POL Filter (circular) 77mm
Samuli
Shows how subjective things like bokeh are... I find the nervous, double image rendering horrible and would not want to use that for landscapes. Stopped down, it is probably a non-issue, but wide open, it only serves to detract from the image.
Horses for courses, as they say.
I appreciate the ability to see images like this because like it or not, it helps inform my 'eye' for how I would prefer to manage a similar image (either through a lens purchase, or decisions made in the field).
Michael, exactly right!!!!!!! That is the richness of Alternative Lenses forum, here we see various rendering styles of lenses presented. You most likely would prefer this lens closed down to f/2.2 (medium distance) or f/2.5 (close distance), where boke is almost without character (some earlier posted photos, don't want to repost, so just links: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), but it might still have too much texture for your taste(?). Usually I use these "best apertures", but occasionally I prefer more rough rendering and use f/1.7. But it sounds (what I'm reading between the lines) that you would prefer more dead plastic boke = most likely Sony 35mm f/1.4 would suit your style much better. BTW. this lens has 3rd and again different boke rendering when shoot wide open (you also don't like that rendering style...)
Thanks to the forum I have seen enough of rendering style of FE28, FE1.4/35, FE24-70 and FE16-35 to understand that they are not for me (Thou I might be forced to get FE28 for aerial multirotor photography as it's so lightweight, if Batis 25 is too heavy). I could have avoided FE35 and FE55 as well, if I would have had enough patience to see enough pictures from them - But patience is not one of my virtues, and I got both of them as soon as they become available and soon realized that I don't like them. As a end result I don't currently shoot with them, and they wait for next event requiring AF (and where rendering style is irrelevant). To get some use I borrowed them to a friend. This year needed them only once for a funeral shoot as mostly my cell phone takes the photos, for which I would use them for.
My creative process may differ from majority, I want my tools to suit the situation. When I go shooting, I pick set of lenses, which rendering style matches my mood (and location/subject) - I rarely change lenses in the field. I mostly pick Zeiss ZE-series set (thou only 2 metabones EF adapters, have to use Loxia/G45/CY etc. as 3rd lens) but also Leica M set (may mix with Leica R 28 or 180), Contax C/Y set, Leica R set, Contax G set will see a lot of Finnish nature. Or if I want something completely different maybe Olympus OM set or Pentax K set. I shoot 90% of time with 3 cameras and I want the set of lenses will match each other quite well on rendering style and boke characteristics. Also sometimes I just go crazy and use for example 3 different normal lenses with completely different rendering styles like Contax G 2/45, Helios 44M-4 2/58 and Porst 1.4/55.
My worst nightmare for lenses would to be locked on shooting characterless lenses, which have nothing else to offer than sharpness and dead plastic boke (=kind of lenses, which might be "mathematically" very good and do well in in tests). That would be really boring for me. For sure sometimes that is also what I prefer (well, sharpness, can't see any reason to prefer dead plastic boke). So yes horses for courses, would not want aggressive hot blooded racing horse for lazy romantic Sunday ride even it's generally considered as the best horse... or a lazy donkey for a race
Image thread, something to post...searching...found:
Carl Zeiss APO-Sonnar T* 2/135 @ f/2.8, 1/15s, A7 @ ISO 100, Carl Zeiss T* POL Filter (circular) 77mm
Samuli
Jul 02, 2015 at 11:38 AM
p.961 #6Sony FE Images Thread
Another from the walk with A7 and Rokkor 58/1.2:
Rural idyll by Helena, on Flickr
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Rural idyll by Helena, on Flickr
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Jul 02, 2015 at 11:57 AM
p.961 #7Sony FE Images Thread
Nikon L35AF 35mm f/2.8 on Sony A7 at f/2.8
The Nikon L35AF is a point and shoot with a 35mm f/2.8 Sonnar lens. It was Nikon's first P&S with AF, and one of their first AF cameras. I inherited one last summer from my aunt. I'm still working on finding another lens that could donate a focusing helicoid and aperture mechanism. Right now, I'm using with its own helicoid on an adapter made with an E mount body cap, always wide open. As it is now, it's one of the smaller lenses available on E mount.
These three images were made using a cheap set of macro tubes.
Lupinus by diogenic, on Flickr
Lupinus by diogenic, on Flickr
Lupinus by diogenic, on Flickr
The Nikon L35AF is a point and shoot with a 35mm f/2.8 Sonnar lens. It was Nikon's first P&S with AF, and one of their first AF cameras. I inherited one last summer from my aunt. I'm still working on finding another lens that could donate a focusing helicoid and aperture mechanism. Right now, I'm using with its own helicoid on an adapter made with an E mount body cap, always wide open. As it is now, it's one of the smaller lenses available on E mount.
These three images were made using a cheap set of macro tubes.
Lupinus by diogenic, on Flickr
Lupinus by diogenic, on Flickr
Lupinus by diogenic, on FlickrJul 02, 2015 at 12:16 PM
p.961 #9Sony FE Images Thread
great artists on this site . my compliment!
Paris, France
René
Paris, France
René
Jul 02, 2015 at 01:08 PM
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p.961 #11Sony FE Images Thread
Sony A7 + Zeiss Makro-Planar T* 100mm f/2 by Ronny Olsson, on Flickr
Sony A7 + Zeiss Makro-Planar T* 100mm f/2 by Ronny Olsson, on Flickr
Jul 02, 2015 at 01:27 PM
p.961 #12Sony FE Images Thread
ebookman wrote:
Samull - That ZE 35 1.4 looks really good to me. I really like the way you work with it. Sometimes I think you and I are working in different parts of the same forest. Maybe some day I will get a fast 35. There are a lot of choices now.
The fishermen in our city store nets on old trucks. I suppose they drive them to the boats. These shots are taken with the A7rM and the Asahi Super Takumar 50mm f/1.4
Wow, ebookman. Wonderful shots and looks like a great lens. Super rich, organic look - like it!
Samull - That ZE 35 1.4 looks really good to me. I really like the way you work with it. Sometimes I think you and I are working in different parts of the same forest. Maybe some day I will get a fast 35. There are a lot of choices now.
The fishermen in our city store nets on old trucks. I suppose they drive them to the boats. These shots are taken with the A7rM and the Asahi Super Takumar 50mm f/1.4
Wow, ebookman. Wonderful shots and looks like a great lens. Super rich, organic look - like it!
Jul 02, 2015 at 01:31 PM
p.961 #13Sony FE Images Thread
Love the images on this thread, so many photographic ideas! Yesterday I was reminded of another photographic idea which is now much easier to realize. I read a great blog article on DEARSUSAN entitled "Panorama Freedom – Discovering LightRoom 6" Here is a panorama of our waterfront taken with the A7rM, Asahi Super Takumar 50mm f/1.4 and processed in the new LightRoom 6 CC
Jul 02, 2015 at 03:04 PM
p.961 #14Sony FE Images Thread
Early morning at the sunflower patch to take advantage of the moonset...looks like they're beginning to give up the ghost.
A7r with Canon EF 70-200/4L
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A7r with Canon EF 70-200/4L
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Jul 02, 2015 at 03:47 PM
p.961 #16Sony FE Images Thread
Some wild flowers from the Dorset hedgerows:
All C/Y 180mm f2.8 plus extension tube on A7R (possibly one using C/Y 100mm f3.5 plus tube, can't quite remember)
_DSC5027orchid by petergthomas, on Flickr
_DSC4947 Briar by petergthomas, on Flickr
_DSC4949Hedgerow 4 by petergthomas, on Flickr
All C/Y 180mm f2.8 plus extension tube on A7R (possibly one using C/Y 100mm f3.5 plus tube, can't quite remember)
_DSC5027orchid by petergthomas, on Flickr_DSC4947 Briar by petergthomas, on Flickr_DSC4949Hedgerow 4 by petergthomas, on FlickrJul 02, 2015 at 04:06 PM
p.961 #17Sony FE Images Thread
A couple of streets/people/candids around Bandung
A7+Pentax A50/2
Opted for a cheap but reliable lens since I had no idea of security of the place.
Turned out that Bandung was safe and nice.
20150619-DSC03640 by jenkwang, on Flickr
20150619-DSC03644 by jenkwang, on Flickr
20150619-DSC03646 by jenkwang, on Flickr
20150619-DSC03649 by jenkwang, on Flickr
A7+Pentax A50/2
Opted for a cheap but reliable lens since I had no idea of security of the place.
Turned out that Bandung was safe and nice.
20150619-DSC03640 by jenkwang, on Flickr
20150619-DSC03644 by jenkwang, on Flickr
20150619-DSC03646 by jenkwang, on Flickr
20150619-DSC03649 by jenkwang, on Flickr
Jul 02, 2015 at 04:39 PM
p.961 #18Sony FE Images Thread
A grove of wind-tormented alders from the Rialto Beach area of Olympic Nat'l Park.
A7II & CV 125
alder copse
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A7II & CV 125
alder copse
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Jul 02, 2015 at 07:15 PM
p.961 #19Sony FE Images Thread
A few images from this last weekend. Taking out our old, and not working hot tub, to be replaced next week with a new one!:
Gregg
A7rM and FE 28 sooc jpg with minor tweaks
:Gregg
A7rM and FE 28 sooc jpg with minor tweaks
Jul 02, 2015 at 09:02 PM
p.961 #20Sony FE Images Thread
Wonderful every one!
Some more from my trip. This time, the Alta river (with the kit lens):
From the boat by Xavier Barceló, on Flickr
Alta river I by Xavier Barceló, on Flickr
Alta river III by Xavier Barceló, on Flickr
Alta river IV by Xavier Barceló, on Flickr
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Teapot by Xavier Barceló, on Flickr
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Some more from my trip. This time, the Alta river (with the kit lens):
From the boat by Xavier Barceló, on FlickrAlta river I by Xavier Barceló, on FlickrAlta river III by Xavier Barceló, on FlickrAlta river IV by Xavier Barceló, on Flickr[
Teapot by Xavier Barceló, on FlickrEdited on Jul 04, 2015 at 01:07 PM · View previous versions
Jul 03, 2015 at 01:18 AM