Hmm..my 50MP is feeling neglected, so I'll post a couple of Zen line drawing inspired pics (from late last year). Both pics are taken wide-open.
1. "Color Harmony"
The blues may get your attention. This file has a WB of 5400, Camera Std profile, no Sat/Vibrance adjustments, just some general underexposure and a medium contrast curve to get things cooked right
2. "Gradient"
Again, trying to make the most of evening sun + deep shadow.
Liked the lines formed by the branches. Normally I reach for my 100P [CY] to fiddle with tree branch shots but liked how the 50MP did here.
My 2:1 fixation disappears when I unmount the 21 and put on the 50 or 100 !
Thanks Edward and Jochen. Edward: my camera is absolutely fine - but recently I begun to combine my two favorite hobbies, photography and acrobatics, and these are the results...
Ulff, high quality images but if you would include more reflection and less of the real part it would be better, this way it looks like upside down, sorry if i'm rude.
Thanks for the hint, Uzay! You are probably right and I will try other crop-variants. It's not easy to find a point where both parts (reflections and real buildings) are in the picture and it is not being viewed as upside-down. Here's another try, where the reflections take a larger part of the image. Do you have something like this in mind?
Ulff wrote:
Thanks Edward and Jochen. Edward: my camera is absolutely fine - but recently I begun to combine my two favorite hobbies, photography and acrobatics, and these are the results...
Oh that's it.
I see it's Amsterdam. Could have been the result of trying all of the local "herbs"
That last one is also lovely. I have to agree with Uzay.
Abhi - Gorgeous shots. Especially 'Color Harmony'. It is beautiful.
Ulff - I am not bothered by the proportion. To me, first and the last of the first set were the most successful. Both has achieved 'slipping reality'. Especially the last one of the set, which , does have the 'actual' to be the larger flipped portion, however, this has achieved as if there is a huge space below, something unusual to me. This effect would be lost if the 'real' portion was smaller.
Now I want to go back and watch 'Inception' again.
Ulff, good idea! I was in Amsterdam in June but didn't walk on my hands... You must be skilled with your toes to push the buttons! Very nice! I like the colors and clarity in both parts.
edwardkaraa wrote:
The zm 35/2 is known for its 3D and high contrast. But somehow it looses some of the magic when used on crop sensors. The zm 25 is a very well corrected lens without any discernible FC and SA. It works equally well on FF and crop.
Boy, I'm not sure that I agree. I do think the ZM 35/2.8 maybe looses something on aps-c, but the ZM 35/2 is just about a perfect lens on aps-c, IMO. I must have a particularly good copy or something, because I'm shocked how sharp it is wide open, and, stopped down a tad, it's more or less technically perfect edge to edge on aps-c. As Luka has mentioned, it's among the best lenses I've used for infinity focus, and I find it to be a great standard lens on NEX, if you want technical. I still like the Contax G, too, but it can't touch the ZM in sharpness, distortion, flare, etc.
I've also been surprised how usable the ZM 50/1.5 is on aps-c. It's a great portrait length on a crop camera, and, by cutting off the edges a bit, it's truly two lenses in one, depending on how far you stop down.
