First shot from my Z6 (just got it today)+ Tamron 45 f1.8 wide open. Still waiting for the memory card and so just shot tethered with Capture One Pro 20....
Beautiful! My first experience with the northern lights was a year ago today. They were so hauntingly beautiful that I continually find myself thinking back to that night and scheming ways to get far enough north to see them again
Pretty impressive capture with that "almost budget level" zoom lens!!! Seriously, I have one and continue to be impressed with it. About what focal length were you at for this capture, all the way at 300?
gear-nut wrote:
Pretty impressive capture with that "almost budget level" zoom lens!!! Seriously, I have one and continue to be impressed with it. About what focal length were you at for this capture, all the way at 300?
Yes. The images were captured at 300mm. The final image was cropped about 50%.
I agree that it's a pretty good lens for the price. Especially at the new normal price of $550.
Finally got my hands on a 200-500. Beast to handle, which makes me wonder how a Sigma 100-400 would compare since it's much easier to manipulate, but IQ is pretty stellar.
One thing I noticed with the Z6 and the Sigma 24-35 F2 is that it seems to render the shots with a lot more micro contrast..even too much at times...that I have to lift up some shadows area in CaptureOne.....shots look vastly different with the Sigma on the D750 than on the Z6..
Testing out the IBIS here...at 1/8th of a second F16, handheld of course...
TooManyShots wrote:
One thing I noticed with the Z6 and the Sigma 24-35 F2 is that it seems to render the shots with a lot more micro contrast..even too much at times...that I have to lift up some shadows area in CaptureOne.....shots look vastly different with the Sigma on the D750 than on the Z6..
On the upside, that microcontrast helps with the B&W conversions Nice set of images! (But can I say you have a funny looking cat without insulting you? )
'it seems to render the shots with a lot more micro contrast..even too much at times'
Not a good look, is it? A real and often overlooked problem (if you value photographic perception) these days, as some makers respond to the '100% view criterion' for lens selection. As with all things, the pendulum will swing back at some stage. Zeiss and Cosina have started this already.
gear-nut wrote:
On the upside, that microcontrast helps with the B&W conversions Nice set of images! (But can I say you have a funny looking cat without insulting you? )
philip_pj wrote:
'it seems to render the shots with a lot more micro contrast..even too much at times'
Not a good look, is it? A real and often overlooked problem (if you value photographic perception) these days, as some makers respond to the '100% view criterion' for lens selection. As with all things, the pendulum will swing back at some stage. Zeiss and Cosina have started this already.
I may have to change the Capture One 20 default profile for the Z6 from auto to more linear contrast...
AdaptedLenses wrote:
Is the Z6 passing a contrast slider into C1? It does in Adobe, not sure the D750 does.
I am using neutral picture profile on the Z6 and even the black is darker on the LCD screen. The Sigma 24-35 f2 is known to have good micro contrast and tack sharp too at wide open F2. In some darker scene, you just get more shadows like someone increase the black point on the level curve. The Tamron 45 looks more natural however... And at wide open, the Sigma has significant vignetting and that tends to contribute more micro contrast too.....
In Capture One, all contrast and level curve sliders are at 0...
Nice set of images! (But can I say you have a funny looking cat without insulting you? 
