rji2goleez, your 1st Lake Michigan image has great orange reflections. I shoot my best ever lightning shots on Lake Michigan, there was constant lightning from 10PM to 3AM, have never experienced similar phenomenon. I did live 1.5 years in Milwaukee (well mostly in Waukesha since our office is there) but I did only recognize one place (the church) of your yesterday's night pictures.
Philippe, 1st Centre Pompidou, or un-Versailles if you wish so, is great.
Luka, nice sky on 3rd shot.
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Carl Zeiss Makro-Planar T* 2/100 @ f/2, 0.3s, 104 images, 41038px x 33048px, 1.356Gpix, 104.59°x91.05° - we definitely need 200/2 for shallow DOF panoramas...
I hope I am not commiting a capital sin by asking this here (where the Zeiss stuff is happening really), but would there be anyone interested in trading a 5 weeks old ZF.2 100mm macro Planar against a 21mm Distagon (ZF(.2) or ZE version?
If yes, I would prefer trading to selling the 100MP (100mm is just not "my" focal lenght).
Location is Germany, so Europe would be preferred.
Thanks, and sorry if this posting is considered as "disturbing".
Bernie
rji2goleez wrote:
Nice Luka - I like the last the best with a narrow DOF. It looks like that 85 is performing well for you. Any final judgement?
Thanks. Yes, I think I have pretty much formed an opinion. In some situations I prefer it over the 100 MP and that's saying a lot. It's not brilliant close up - the shots above would have been better with the 100 MP. The latter would have rendered the texture of the objects such that you could almost feel it. Not so with the 85.
On the other hand it is very good at intermediate distances - even wide open and really excellent at infinity stopped down. Wide open it is excellent at isolating a subject at a considerable distance. Near or at infinity stopped down it doesn't have the in-your-face style of the 100 MP but a more nuanced one. There is a time and place for both - and it's nice to have the variations available.
Luka, Samuli, Robert, thanks for the kind words.
Samuli, that is a massive amount of data!
Robert, love your set. And your last picture, Joakim, and your second one, Luka! Congrats to all!
Bob, some amazing shots!
Gary: Love those shots, particularly one of the window!
Philippe: Nice shots with the 50 Planar! I like the rendering in what would normally be high contrast.
Samuli, very nice shot. I don't if I would have the patience.
joakim, really like the B&W shot.
Luka, really liking your shots with the 85/1.4. I love the last shot of the yacht. Sometimes you can become saturated with overlly strong rendering, and it is great to a lens like the 85/1.4 to have variety.
