Allen - perfect timing with the kiss and congrats on your upcoming show! The picture on the invite is superb! Enjoying all of your street shots from the previous pages
Michael, love that Savannah street shot with the baby and toddler in the stroller. Excellent pics of your kids and family as always. Those M3 shots almost look too clean to me, where's the grain
Andrew, those 75Lux shots are all excellent!
Phil, congrats on the Mono! Cute shot of your granddaughter with the 5cm.
Charles, those 75Lux beach shots are beautiful. Love the silvery lighting.
Ron, excellent B&W set with the 50Lux. That stopped down 75Lux shot of Toronto looks really sharp and nice with a somewhat modern rendering. Really like this lens.
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Daytona Beach, FL. I left the camera at ISO320 and pushed between 3.5 to 5 stops in LR4, so ignore the EXIF info as it was much darker. Banding was quite noticeable on some shots but overall I'm happy with the Mono's low light results. #4 slightly cropped.
Gary, thank you for the compliments and I love the composition of the B&W's on the previous page!
Taylor, thank you as well. 24SEM is the 24mm Super Elmar.
Ash, thank you.
Allen, thank you for the invite, I wish that I could make it. Best of luck with the show!
Love the second set!
Michael, thank you for taking the time to provide me with a detailed reply. That V1 is a very distinct lens. Your photographs have a beautiful tone! I am wondering if you have ever compared it to the V4?
Lastly, if I may ask you another question... How does the 35mm R Lux compare to the M version. I am assuming that you have compared them. Thanks Andrew
Looks great Andrew - Very, very vibrant! The last two are really interesting and a nice change of the usual CN Tower (which is how I shot it and will post later).
Michael - love that one of your son!
Allen - congrats on the show and your invite photo is a great find, wow!
Joe, very cool. You should come to Port Dover, Ontario any Friday the 13th, though it's better in the summer. The next one this year is in September: http://www.pd13.com It's only a ~8 hour drive from Boston or two hours from Buffalo NY airport.
Lovely rendering Gary.
Some more from the walk with Andrew a while back:
21 SEM:
CV12:
Andrew shooting the floating boat with the 75 Lux:
I am very undecided whether to keep the C-Sonnar or not. It draws nicely at f/1.5 to f/2, but the focus shift at smaller apertures is very frustrating. I have to remember always to front focus it in order to get sharp results.
Here is a long range comparison at f/8, 1/125s, iso 160, ACR default settings:
Is your C-Sonnar optimized for f1.5 Edward? The sense I get from researching the lens is that a f1.5 optimized lens is great at f1.5-f2.0, but a bit of pain to use at other f-stops. My recently sold copy was optimized for ~f2.8 and was quite usable at f2.8 and up, but extra care was needed at wider apertures. Given the characteristics of the lens design, I suspect that Zeiss' decision to optimize the lens at f2.8 probably makes sense as the best choice for most users, but for many it seems counter-intuitive.
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