Greggf wrote:
Unfortunately not. I wish!! It's the E55...but it's still my fav 50 ever. And I've gone through most of the 50's, minus the Oly, and a few other! Very good close focus, and becomes stupid sharp when stopped down! Great skin colors, too.
Thanks Gregg, glad to hear it. I recently acquired a great e55 from the late 70s and am really enjoying it so far. At today's prices, seems too hard to justify the e60's cost imo. Have a few new leica's, most of which are loads of fun – but have only scratched the surface.
One of my favs so far is the 35 lux. Find it just gorgeous all-around... have you had a chance to use/own one?
haven't post here for a while. But I was under water watch the thread and enjoy the fine images during traveling.
Went back for Chinese new year. 80-200 is the only R lens I bring with me. It did a excellent job for me.
HuangShan, Anhui, China
one of most amazing places in China. Too bad, the weather is too boring (no snow, no cloud, full sun with lots of haze in the air) at the time I was there and I only have one and half day there. http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7432/12428633043_df881b6152_b.jpg
mmacro wrote:
Thanks Gregg, glad to hear it. I recently acquired a great e55 from the late 70s and am really enjoying it so far. At today's prices, seems too hard to justify the e60's cost imo. Have a few new leica's, most of which are loads of fun – but have only scratched the surface.
One of my favs so far is the 35 lux. Find it just gorgeous all-around... have you had a chance to use/own one?
I hear you on the prices! Hard to justify! But, damn, I would love that 50 E60! I don't know if I'll ever get the chance to shoot the 35 Lux, though. I thought about Worldinlens' 35 Lux(Leitaxed for Nikon), but still can't justify...and my wife would absolutely KILL me!! Maybe Michael will let me borrow his?
Welcome back Michael! I always look forward to your images! Safe trip in China I hope?
Crazy shot...I think the 5Dlll colors are almost as vibrant as the Sigma! Great combo with the 100APO, and very nice images!!
Keep them coming!! I know I will....
And thanks to everyone for all the likes!
Gregg
If you happen to be in the atlanta, georgia area any time soon, just let me know as I can lend you mine for an afternoon.
Thanks...my company is based in Atlanta...UPS!. But I'm just a driver here in Santa Cruz, CA.
Last time I was in Georgia, was 25 years ago for Jump School, at Ft Benning!
G
thanks for comments, Greg, you are welcome to borrow my 35lux for a week or two maybe schedule a UPS pick up by you
Crazy shot: nice color.
mmacro, thanks for comments. 35lux is also my favorite lens for my kids 100 APO is always on my shopping list, but never made to the top for the focal length usage and overlap with 80-200, I almost never do macro
For this trip, I have to say 80-200 made my day. I almost decide leave it at home before the tip. but for Huangshan mountain, I found wide than 35 not much useful and 55FE is not long enough for most cases. 80-200 zoom range has been so crucial for me that I almost didn't use FE55 at all with A7 during that one and half day on mountain.
Love the shots above, Michael! I can't wait to see more of your shots from China. Are they posted in the A7 forum, too? Greg, you are welcome to borrow my 35lux for a week or two maybe schedule a UPS pick up by you
I just might take you up on that one of these days!!
zhangyue wrote:
For this trip, I have to say 80-200 made my day. I almost decide leave it at home before the tip. but for Huangshan mountain, I found wide than 35 not much useful and 55FE is not long enough for most cases. 80-200 zoom range has been so crucial for me that I almost didn't use FE55 at all with A7 during that one and half day on mountain.
I acquired the 80-200 less than a week ago and have only used it for a couple hours so far but was a little disappointed with the color it produced (but can clearly see from your picts its great for B&W I'm curious if you find the color a little lacking as compared to other Leicas. Seemed a little flat/muted by comparison to me, and doesn't seem to have the Leica 'wow' factor I've come to expect, but then again it could have just been the lighting that particular afternoon... thanks, and gorgeous picts!
mmacro wrote:
I acquired the 80-200 less than a week ago and have only used it for a couple hours so far but was a little disappointed with the color it produced (but can clearly see from your picts its great for B&W I'm curious if you find the color a little lacking as compared to other Leicas. Seemed a little flat/muted by comparison to me, and doesn't seem to have the Leica 'wow' factor I've come to expect, but then again it could have just been the lighting that particular afternoon... thanks, and gorgeous picts!
Compare to 55FE shot I got the same time, I didn't notice significant difference in COLOR. However, there are hot/red spot in the center once stop down. I believe Samuli reported similar problem a while back about it, which echo my finding. so flare/hot spot will be the potential problem. I have to watch out shooting angle many time. A7 is very handy here.
The lens is not famous for color fidelity. But it use significant less element compare to modern Canikon, even not with modern coating, the clarity is there. and I found the lens 80-150 performance is very strong, easily meet my need, even at 200mm, it is more than acceptable to my need.
As for BW, the photos posted so far are from my first day there. there are two reason:
1. I drive 6 hours start earlier morning and get there at around 11 AM, once I was up to the mountain, it is already in very bad/boring lighting time zone: the sky is weird blue with lots of UV haze and tree is brown/ yellowish, a very tough condition for tele lens to make any photo in color interesting.
2. Huangsan is #1 choice for mountains scenery in China, the shape of mountain, all kinds of trees are very suit for BW, which inspired from Chinese brush painting: emphasize the composition, structure than detail.
I haven't go through my images yet, hopefully, there are some color ones to show
Overall, I am satisfied with this lens, the zoom flexibility and relative small footprint are important. but I have no difficult to believe 100APO will be better than it
I haven't go through my images yet, hopefully, there are some color ones to show
Looking forward to the pics, Michael...
A shot from tonight with the 90 Cron around f5.6-8, I think
Gregg
