Taken with the 5DII - which worked very well for this shot. I use a custom color balance in it that seems to do much better than the standard setting, especially for greens. Still miss the Kodak SLR/c.
Responded to all PM's that wanted some details on PP for the shot.
5x3 panos with Fuji S5, and Contax 35-70/3.4, both at 70mm, the first at ~f/8, second one at f/4and third at ~f/5.6. Hoya HD polarizer together with the lens is responsible for the greens, images are OOC JPGs.
It's venerable age, old world no nonsense approach, relative obscurity, form factor, lack of market appeal, humble specifications combined with its performance characteristics (add brilliant corners to the list) and sheer allround ability (2.5:1 close up to infinity) appeal to a certain type of photographer perhaps...I really like that such lenses are also affordable to all and sundry.
There will never be another one, which simply adds to the classic status.
I wish I would have jumped on this lens back when it was affordable. Oh well, I needed a zoom lens anyway and the macro feature also made the C/Y the logical choice. Here are a few from my first outing with it. All wide open on the 5D:
One: does the lens adapter have to be one with a chip and if it doesn't have one will it still register the focal length and lens info to the camera chip to be used in lightroom or PS for my personal information.
Two: after reading about the infinity focus issue do all these lenses have to be checked out to make sure that they focus on infinity in all the ranges that can be used (35-50-70). I ordered two adapters one with the chip and one without.
Depending on which one gets here first I'm excited to take some photos with it (lens I mean).
I have more questions to be asked since I saw many answers on this thread and can't remember them all (CRS syndrome)
I believe I get my lens tomorrow I can't wait, I have had the 17-40 f4 70-200 f4 for a long time both are good lenses, but I needed more range than that on the long end, this lens will give me more range there but less on the short end, plus more IQ than that lens could ever have. Not to knock that lens its was a lot of fun to shoot with.
Thanks for any answers
Lynn
One more question, I would like to know if when you process photo’s with this lens do you have to process them much, I do find that I have to do more work with my Canon lenses, camera processing to get a little pop in them, just a dumb question but all the photo’s that I saw on this thread have color rendition that seem naturally cool looking.
