Weatherseal test... Gear managed fine. Me, not so much. Soaked 3 times even while standing 10m/30ft above sea level. Anticipation... by micke vmix, on Flickr
D850 + 21/2.8 Milvus at F22
Alone in the Dark by micke vmix, on Flickr
D500 + 50/1.4 Planar at F1.6 This lens is sometimes frustratingly soft and busy at close range. But when the conditions are right it just creates "paintings"
"I was standing this morning, October 16, 1832, by San Pietro in Montorio, on the Gianicolo in Rome, in magnificent sunshine. A few small white clouds, borne on a barely perceptible sirocco wind, were floating above the Monte Albano. A delicious warmth filled the air and I was happy to be alive. I could clearly see Frascati and Castel Gandolfo 12 miles away, and the Villa Aldobrandini with Domenichino’s sublime fresco of Judith. Below the wall against which I am leaning are the big orange trees of the Capuchins’ orchard, then the Tiber and Maltese priory, a little beyond them on the right the tomb of Cecilia Metella, San Paolo, and the Pyramid of Cestius. Opposite me I see Santa Maria Maggiore and the long lines of the Palazzo di Montecavallo. The whole of ancient and modern Rome, from the ancient via Appia with its ruined tombs and aqueducts to the magnificent garden of the Pincio, built by the French, lies spread before me. There is no place like this in the world, I mused. What a magnificent view!." [Stendhal]
