tsdevine wrote:
Maybe I'll be surprised, but I'm thinking more and more I won't see it until Monday. With some of the changes at the USPS and shipping from CA to PA, I'm trying not to get my hope up too high that it comes Saturday.
My tracking says the lens arrived at the regional center in Santa Clarita at 4:57pm but my tracking number says expected delivery on Monday? That doesn't sound like next day delivery as advertised. At the very least, how about Saturday . . .
Same exact status down to the minute, 4:57 PM and delivery on Monday. I know USPS is slower now, but I'm not sure exactly what type of mail service he used to ship.
CameraQuest Fred.
rji2goleez wrote:
My tracking says the lens arrived at the regional center in Santa Clarita at 4:57pm but my tracking number says expected delivery on Monday? That doesn't sound like next day delivery as advertised. At the very least, how about Saturday . . .
My tracking says it was sent Priority Mail, which is 1-3 day (no guarantee.) Priority Mail Express is 1-2 day (guaranteed...as in a refund I guess if they miss.)
Doing a zip code to zip code transit time lookup on USPS implies my zip code would be delivered in 2 days. But again...it's not guaranteed.
I wonder if he's saying he's not allowed to provide any deliveries before Saturday (maybe a Cosina thing?) In which case he has to sort of play a game with what shipping to use.
Guess we'll just have to wait and see.....
-Tim
rji2goleez wrote:
Message from Stephen:
Hi Bob,
It was shipped to arrive Sat, the label says 2 day.
shipped early as the earliest delivery date possible is Sat.
Best,
Stephen
So, hopefully it will arrive Saturday and USPS is just playing it safe.
tsdevine wrote:
My tracking says it was sent Priority Mail, which is 1-3 day (no guarantee.) Priority Mail Express is 1-2 day (guaranteed...as in a refund I guess if they miss.)
Doing a zip code to zip code transit time lookup on USPS implies my zip code would be delivered in 2 days. But again...it's not guaranteed.
I wonder if he's saying he's not allowed to provide any deliveries before Saturday (maybe a Cosina thing?) In which case he has to sort of play a game with what shipping to use.
That's what I got out of his message as well. He timed shipments to coincide with a Cosina arrival date of Saturday.
justincrabtree wrote:
Liking what I'm seeing from Fred's shots so far. Smoooooth transition.
I like the rendering so far. It does not have the smoothest rendering at transition zone towards the background but it's smooth at the OOF foreground. It has some bite and colors look great. Here are a few from an hour ago:
Fred Miranda wrote:
I like the rendering so far. It does not have the smoothest rendering at transition zone towards the background but it's smooth at the OOF foreground. It has some bite and colors look great. Here are a few from an hour ago:
Stunning first images Fred! I'm not detecting any noticeable magenta shift off-axis in your pictures, not sure if you have noticed anything like that so far?
I've never seen it on samples from CV on Leica. And Fred's Sony shots were indoors, which is a low UV environment.
Maybe Fred will be able to do some CV E/Sony shots outside, mid-day on a sunny day. Then we'll know for sure.
Worst case, you can be sure I'll be testing.
-Tim
inksandpaper wrote:
Stunning first images Fred! I'm not detecting any noticeable magenta shift off-axis in your pictures, not sure if you have noticed anything like that so far?
tsdevine wrote:
I've never seen it on samples from CV on Leica. And Fred's Sony shots were indoors, which is a low UV environment.
Maybe Fred will be able to do some CV E/Sony shots outside, mid-day on a sunny day. Then we'll know for sure.
Worst case, you can be sure I'll be testing.
-Tim
Hey Tim, you might want to see the second image from that post of Fred's. Its outdoors and the sky seems quite clear and blue. I don't think any from that series was made indoors?
Don't get your hopes up. Those outdoor shots were using the M mount version on Leica. I haven't seen this being an issue on M mount lenses on Leica bodies.
-Tim
inksandpaper wrote:
Hey Tim, you might want to see the second image from that post of Fred's. Its outdoors and the sky seems quite clear and blue. I don't think any from that series was made indoors?
