Lol. I put it at 3 weeks. And I want the lens if he decides to part with it! 🙄 ecarlino wrote:
OK, folks (to use a Guy-ism) - i'm making the over / under at 5 weeks for the C-Sonnar in Guy's bag - any takers?
I will not part with mine. This lens is not about how many points it gets from testing sites or how it compares to the resolution kings. It's not about lack of aberrations and sharpness across the frame either.
To me, it's about contrast, size, build quality and most importantly rendering. There are many examples of how this lens draws posted on this thread. If you don't like this 'look', it's definitely not for you.
The look is what's it's about for sure. That I love. Just want to get 1.7 good and it maybe the TAP variance I hit a couple times. I'll play more and get that under control. Oh I'm keeping the lens. I already registered ii after 2 frames. Lol
ecarlino wrote:
Fred - i was actually playing with search methods on google to help with the problem of "ASKED & ANSWERED"......
so, i'll start with an example of the question asked above and the results from google took me to THIS Thread, where ironically, the same person (not trying to pick on you DavidBM) asked the same question and you already replied:
The method i used was: from the google search box, type this:
"Labradoodle Luna site:fredmiranda.com"
and it only gives one result, go that that thread and scroll down, and there you have an answer.
I was thinking about the idea of developing/maintaining a FAQ but really the answers are already here - the site just needs a better 'search' capability - for example, within a forum, the search for "luna labradoodle" returns nothing, even though an outside search engine was able to find it.
The searching Within a Thread is more effective, but often the answers are in other threads.
Perhaps FAQs would initially encourage more questions to be answered, perhaps even proactively, but developing and maintaining something like that is an enormous amount of work and interest tends to wane quickly (as evidenced by countless FAQs on all subjects being half-baked or outdated because their original group lost interest)....Show more →
I will check this out and thanks for letting me know. I think google offers a search engine for sites as well. We used to have it here to complement the internal code.
Fred Miranda wrote:
I will check this out and thanks for letting me know. I think google offers a search engine for sites as well. We used to have it here to complement the internal code.
google does offer that, i'm just not sure how your site is setup internally nor whether or not google charges anything or what the best option is - i just wanted to point out that there is a HUGE amount of currently un-mineable info within FM but that it could be a pretty easy solution.
although, if nothing else, your search box could simply post a query to google and append "site:fredmiranda.com" to the user's text and then put the google results inside of your frame to keep your brand and not googles....lots of options and i'm sure your tech guys know a lot more than i do.
Fred Miranda wrote:
I will check this out and thanks for letting me know. I think google offers a search engine for sites as well. We used to have it here to complement the internal code.
the "Labradoodle Luna" test worked perfectly with the google search text box you just added - this is a great improvement for now, next step would be to make it a bit more "integrated" but this is great!
only behavior change i would suggest relative to what is happening with the 'google search text box' would be the ability to specify a specific forum (or 'all') if you were able to implement something specific to your forums (i.e. not just borrowing google's)
i was going to modify my suggestion above - maybe the simplest way for your tech guys to add this would be to have a choice - that the search would either (a) only look in the current forum that you are in or (b) whole site
alt - if you are in a forum, it only searches that forum - if you are at the main page, it would search the whole site
ecarlino wrote:
i was going to modify my suggestion above - maybe the simplest way for your tech guys to add this would be to have a choice - that the search would either (a) only look in the current forum that you are in or (b) whole site
alt - if you are in a forum, it only searches that forum - if you are at the main page, it would search the whole site
The "alt" seems to be the easiest way as I have to use their own script.
Fred Miranda wrote:
The "alt" seems to be the easiest way as I have to use their own script.
does that mean there is no way using google to search within a forum - b/c it'd be great to search for "focus shift" and only get "Sony" results (or if i was a Nikon user, only "Nikon forum" results).
actually, you should be able to filter the results in a script - but that's not exactly a 1 day plug and play solution probably
ecarlino wrote:
does that mean there is no way using google to search within a forum - b/c it'd be great to search for "focus shift" and only get "Sony" results (or if i was a Nikon user, only "Nikon forum" results).
actually, you should be able to filter the results in a script - but that's not exactly a 1 day plug and play solution probably
I moved the search box to the bottom of the pages so I can continue testing it.
prashant wrote:
so any comparisons between FE55, Loxia and 50C for portraits?
Well, I do not have the Loxia although I do have the FE 55 but I didn't have that with me. This is an impromptu portrait of a complete stranger at the Getty Center yesterday. She was there with her friend and they took each other pictures. I asked them politely whether I could take a few snaps of them. In general, women feel flattered if some one asks whether it would be OK to take their pictures. Of course, you have to ask nicely and do it tactfully. So, I did and here is one of them. And I will be forwarding a few images to them soon.
Again, no direct comparison between the C-Sonnar and FE since the first one is what I took with me. However, I can tell you that the rendition is different. For portraits or people pictures in general, I would choose the C-Sonnar over the FE. This was captured at f/1.7, the rest of the exif data should be correct. And the TAP made it easy!
AGeoJO wrote:
Well, I do not have the Loxia although I do have the FE 55 but I didn't have that with me. This is an impromptu portrait of a complete stranger at the Getty Center yesterday. She was there with her friend and they took each other pictures. I asked them politely whether I could take a few snaps of them. In general, women feel flattered if some one asks whether it would be OK to take their pictures. Of course, you have to ask nicely and do it tactfully. So, I did and here is one of them. And I will be forwarding a few images to them soon.
Again, no direct comparison between the C-Sonnar and FE since the first one is what I took with me. However, I can tell you that the rendition is different. For portraits or people pictures in general, I would choose the C-Sonnar over the FE. This was captured at f/1.7, the rest of the exif data should be correct. And the TAP made it easy!...Show more →
