Photo cross posted in the Sony FE Image Thread and taken October 1, 2015 at 9:51 AM looking across Heart Lake (Lake owned by the Adirondack Mountain Club), the Adirondack Mountains, Lake Placid, NY. Image taken with my tripod mounted Leica R 180mm f3.4 Apo Telyt lens and my A7r. ISO 200, lens set to probably f11 for 1/125 second. Exposure corrected by +0.12 Stops and processed in LR6.
Photo cross posted in the Sony FE Image Thread and taken at 8:43 AM on June 8, 2015 of a cascade down stream of Dark Hollow Falls, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. Image taken with my tripod mounted A7r and my Leica R 28mm f2.8 Elmarit V2 lens, ISO 50, lens set to about f16 for 0.8 second. Exposure corrected by +0.36 Stops and processed in LR6.
Photo cross posted in the Fuji FE Image Thread and taken at 11:16 AM on June 29, 2015 of a crashing wave, Mount Desert Island in Acadia National Park, Maine. Image taken with my tripod mounted Leica R 180mm f3.4 Apo Telyt lens and my A7r, ISO 100, lens set to about f11? for 1/1000 second. Processed in LR 6.
When I moved to the M system back in December, I also bought an R-Adapter M thinking that I'd use my R lenses with it. I then tried and miserably failed at making a comparison between my M9 and A7 II, using the same lenses. Simply put, I couldn't get them to focus on the same thing, and I gave up after taking bunches of exposures with slightly different focus points but never finding two images that agreed. As far as ultimate technical precision goes, scale focusing is not my friend. So, I've been using the M9 and 35mm, quite happily but exclusively, for the last few months.
Today I decided that I was tired with 35mm alone and stuck my 21-35 on the camera and took a whack at it. These are all 21mm or 24mm, f/8 or f/11, and, as you can see, with subjects close enough to infinity to be perfectly fine just pulled back a little off the mark. And, surprise surprise, I love the results. The focus might not be as good as it could be, but it is certainly good enough. While I look forward to the idea of someday putting the necessary funds toward an SL and using these lenses again at closer distances, I'm mostly a distant-scene shooter anyway, so this setup might actually be viable. I'm now thinking that a 1930's rangefinder (a la Leitz FOKOS) and a vari/zoom-finder might be in the cards.
Anyhow, for better or worse, here are some of my favored images from this evening's walk home:
zhangyue,
you are an astonishing man. What a wonderful B&W treatment!
Yes, you are right, SEP2 is free and I have worked for the first time with Photoshop these last days! Funny, isn't it?
Best regards.
Prambanan, Candi Sewu, Manjusri grha, Leica-R 28/2.8 (II)
Same theory, different lens: 35-70/4. Much harder to frame than the 21-35, but I think that's mostly down to me having a weaker eye for middle focal lengths. Also quite difficult to focus in the 2-4 meter range, but even there I can get acceptably close to could-be-confused-with-actually-focused with a few exposures and at f/8. Interesting.
Photo cross posted in the Sony FE Image Thread and taken at 8:10 AM on June 10, 2015 of the plant and flowers Fly Poison ("Amianthium muscitoxicum"), Big Meadows, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. Image taken with my tripod mounted Leica R 280mm f4 Apo Telyt lens with my Leica R 1.4X Apo Extender and my A7r; ISO 400, lens set to effective aperture of f8 at 1/320 second. Proceed in LR6.
Photo cross posted in the Sony FE Image Thread and taken October 1, 2015 at 10:17 AM looking across Heart Lake (Lake owned by the Adirondack Mountain Club), the Adirondack Mountains, Lake Placid, NY. Image taken with my tripod mounted Leica R 180mm f3.4 Apo Telyt lens and my A7r. ISO 100, lens set to probably f11 for 1/125 second. Exposure corrected by +0.12 Stops and processed in LR6.
