I've just been going through some lightroom archives looking at images from kit I no longer own.
thought it might be interesting see images from gear you no longer own, and the story behind the reason you no longer own that lens/camera
I'll kick off with an image of a sunset in some fields local to me. Sadly this could be redeveloped into housing.
Taken on A7r4 which I still own, but using a Voigtlander 50mm Apo Lanthar which I sold.
Fantastic lens, but I sold it when I started to use AF lenses more. Considering getting a used 35 Apo lanthar just to reconnect to the process a bit more, sometimes on AF it's a bit to easy to blat away
My parents from 2001
Taken with a Sony Mavica FD-88 camera. The FD stands for Floppy Disk.
I tried dressing it up a bit in Photoshop, it helped, but it isn't great.
Two years ago, I was firmly hooked on the NEX6 with a set of lenses that satisfied me 100%. This photo was taken with a Zeiss 12mm.
But I was already in love with the Nokton 40/1.2; I read all the reviews and the entire thread here on the forum. The transition was painless; the cameras were bought used, along with some of the lenses. I haven't regretted it once.
If I ever have to go back to cropped lenses, I'll get the NEX6 again. It's a rock-solid camera with a fantastic color sensor.
2011 and my 1st foray into the Sony world with a Nex-5N. On line comments touted it's high dynamic range compared to the FF Canon I was using and I found that to be so. Obviously a pretty wide angle lens but no data transmitted, so not Sony and no recollection what it might have been. The 5N is probably still in a closet somewhere but as I recall it went on the fritz after being used in some rain and then donated it's lens flange to another body when I fell on my rucksack (and a body/lens) and bent the mount (a Sony A7R I think).
Here is my first ever foto taken with the Sony A7 back November 2013 only a month after it's release (must be with the Sony/Zeiss 35/2.8). No great image but certainly historical
California wildflowers with my first Sony, the A900, from 2009. Lens was a Minolta 100mm f/2. Sold when I moved to the Nikon D3X, and did not return to Sony until 3 years ago with the A7RV.
DSLR-A900100mm F2 lens100mmf/20.01/10s100 ISO0.0 EV
A bear I encountered in the spring of 2015 captured with the A7II when I eventually went all in with Sony cameras, previously using Nikon cameras. The A7II was the camera that finally convinced me mirrorless cameras were the future and never looked back.
ILCE-7M2FE 24-240mm F3.5-6.3 OSS lens240mmf/7.11/50s400 ISO0.0 EV
nehemiahphoto wrote:
Great set Brad! Didn’t know you shot the r 35/1.4. Can I get your opinions on that lens?
Thanks, brother! And sure. Objectively, its two biggest dings against are coma and astigmatism, which should be quite clear from the "Defy Gravity" balloon shot. You can see the field lights along the bottom edge look more like dishes than lights. Otherwise, flare resistance is average, CA correction is good, SA correction leans a bit towards under, so it's very gentle with people at wide apertures but the bokeh remains well-balanced. Contrast and resolution are pleasing and stood up to 42mp well, though it's obviously been surpassed there by modern designs. Specific to the Sony stock sensor, you do pick up some wavy FC closer focused, but my solution there was to stop down to f/2 and the distracting elements were minimized to the point of irrelevance. It was a decent landscaper by 5.6, but not my first choice for the task.
The only reason I think about it these days is because I think it would make a gorgeous cine lens. I didn't shoot video when I owned it, so I never considered that aspect, but, now, I'd love to give it a try on my FX-3. I just don't love the idea enough to pay the ridiculous prices I see for decent copies.
