Edward - that second one has a real Dutch Master character in the lighting!
Allen - more stellar street photography, and a similar timely capture from you René in your second.
Charlie - I like the monochromes and their antithesis the colourful theatre shots.
Rocky - very striking monochromes and then the Lightroom array of colour shots. Nepal?
Burningheart - I would love to visit that dinosaur NP. Of your set I like the steps one best
Gary - your Rockie photos take me back to a trip there in Sept 1986!
...the Canucks are very well represented on this thread.
Allen, nice to see you back to posting. The last 2 shots are my favourites.
Gary, I really envy you for the sceneries you have access to. Unbelievably beautiful photos. The ZM18 still got some purple shading on the right edge of the frame. Which profile are you using?
Cal, good to see you back too. Nice work as usual, and the M240 can do excellent b/w work, no doubt.
Coogee, I like the first shot. Nice composition.
Charlie, nice theatre work. I really like the last shot.
David, thanks for the kind comments. I really like your work so please post more often. You're too humble and don't underestimate your skills
edwardkaraa wrote:
That's because they tend to lose their teeth from ice hockey
And we keep bumping our faces on the walls of our igloos...
Yes, the ZM18 still have a bit of color cast on the edges. In this case, I didn't have much room to crop it out which is what I usually do. I really can't be bothered with cornerfix or Adobe flat field plugin. I am using the 21/2.8 elmarit code which I found to be the best...
Gary Clennan wrote:
And we keep bumping our faces on the walls of our igloos...
Yes, the ZM18 still have a bit of color cast on the edges. In this case, I didn't have much room to crop it out which is what I usually do. I really can't be bothered with cornerfix or Adobe flat field plugin. I am using the 21/2.8 elmarit code which I found to be the best...
I remember when I had it on the M9 the best profile was the 24/2.8, which removed the cast completely. But I also found that with the M240 the best profile may not be always the same.
Beautiful subject and portrait Desmolicious. Do you use that same name on Ducati.MS? If so, I used to post on the ST area there as 'smoothlennie' (that's a wordplay on Cumulus Lenticularis, clouds beloved of glider pilots.)
These two pics show some of these lenticular clouds off to the RHS (M8 with CV 35/1.4 MC)
Nice!
Yeah, I used to post on Ducati.ms. Back when I rode. Back before I got t-boned me on my bike that sent me to the ICU..
(I'm ok now and replaced motos w/ photography )
Gary Clennan wrote:
And we keep bumping our faces on the walls of our igloos...
Yes, the ZM18 still have a bit of color cast on the edges. In this case, I didn't have much room to crop it out which is what I usually do. I really can't be bothered with cornerfix or Adobe flat field plugin. I am using the 21/2.8 elmarit code which I found to be the best...
Gary, that's what I used with my recently departed (today) ZM18, and it seemed to be the best, but I did need to use cornerfix/ LR flat field on occasion.
Gary Clennan wrote:
Thanks Edward. Pretty sure I already tried that one but will give it another whirl. The 24/2.8 code works well on the ZM25 I have found.,..
Well, I found the 24 profile too strong for the zm 25. It causes a green shift instead of the purple shift. I've been using recently the 28/2.8 profile 11804 which slightly undercorrects, while the 11809 may in some cases very slightly over correct but mostly produces very good results.
After consulting the oracle some time ago (this thread of course!), I too have been using 11809 for the ZM25. I will also give 11804 a whirl.
Now excuse me, but I just had to share this new image (taken on my A7R with FE55/1.8).
No doubt you will understand why I have posted here. I received the lens on the right today. Ironic given that my first decent 35 was the one on the left. I think it may be sold, but I haven't evaluated the ancient one ( ) yet...
David, congrats on your new old lens If you don't like flare, I would advise you to add a black rimmed UV filter, as these chromed filter threads are notorious for reflecting light back into the lens.
Thanks Edward. It came with a Leica silver filter, but I probably have a black one somewhere and will take your advice.
I'm keeping my stock of UV+IR filters and have also bought some larger ones, for a Sony ( ) A6000 that I will get converted for both visible + IR use.
Allen - I also like 2 and 4 best from your last set.
These next 2 were taken with M9 and LM-converted (by the US eBay dealer in California) Contax G45/2. Apart from Allen(!), I would ask opinions on preference, B&W or colour?
lenticular11 wrote:
Well, I must say that indeed the Cron 35 Type 1 is a flare-monster, even with a UV+IR filter and the standard (not so good?) hood.
David, congrats on your v1 . I'm surprised you find it flare too much, mine's been behaving nicely in strong backlit scenes. I haven't really tested it to the extremes but it seems fairly well controlled. I have seen some strong flaring with the lens but that's usually if you have the sun or a very bright light source directed towards the lens.
Thanks Rocky. Actually not flare (my bad description), but washed out areas with strong side-lighting, albeit in an art installation that is all about light and colours. Will post smebin due course and a couple of comparisons with the Hexanon-M35 ('Konicron' perhaps?).
Here's a direct comparison of the two lenses, albeit my desired focus was different in each.
The subject is an art installation by the American artist James Turrell. I am in the central beehive which has a circular hole through to daylight. Surrounding that beehive is a sloping truncated pyramid, also open to the air, with further areas of water between pyramid and beehive. So the whole thing is about colours and natural light.
In these shots the sun is probably at about 30 deg above the horizon and coming from the right.
The images were RAW 16-bit AdobeRGB conversions in Capture One Pro 8, at 30% and with no PP whatsoever. I then use scripts to do a TIF to jpeg and AdobeRGB-to-sRGB conversion.
The Hexanon-M 35 performs much better here than the Cron although as I look at other images from this afternoon I am simply staggered by the resolution of the Cron, even wide-open! I should also say that just raising my camera a little greatly improved the Cron's performance. I have other poor examples though. Each lens also had it's matching hood. It's a pity I didn't have identical Leica or B+W filters, however each is UV+IR.
30% scaled TIF from original SOOC, then Adobe to sRGB and TIF -> jpg conversion
30% scaled TIF from original SOOC, then Adobe to sRGB and TIF -> jpg conversion
The subject area (through the tunnel). Cron35, f4, 1/180, ISO 160
) yet... 
) A6000 that I will get converted for both visible + IR use.
