I now have some pratice with my NEX. I do PP in Lightroom 3.3. When I crop 100%, I can see grain (noise) even at ISO 200 with LR NR at default. Is that your experience as well?
philber wrote:
I now have some pratice with my NEX. I do PP in Lightroom 3.3. When I crop 100%, I can see grain (noise) even at ISO 200 with LR NR at default. Is that your experience as well?
yup, although it is usually only visible in the oof regions, and only at 100%. i typically expose to the right (thanks to the NEX's highlight retention), which makes it much less visible as well.
a picture from a warmer day with the zuiko 42mm f/1.2 wide open: http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5243/5268351292_afc09b8618_o.jpg
a lot of the pictures i have from this lens have a weird 3D but unreal kind of look to them to my eye. not zeiss style 3D where it's like your looking through a window, but more like looking at a pastel cartoon recreation of the world or a model of the real world made of playdough. maybe i just spend to much time looking at pics.
kjcramer wrote:
The photos you've shared from that and the 38 1.8 look beautiful on my monitor. In fact, I'm now on the hunt for a 38 for my NEX. Damn you.
NEX-5 at ISO 800 with a Nikon 28mm f/2.0 AI lens. This was shot two days ago, at a local science museum. I guess this was about the scientific study of fantasy hardware fish.
The NEX provided me with a big surprise today. I was showing a person (outside of FM) the images I posted a couple for pages back they asked me if I would be willing to provide them with larger prints of four of the shots. I'm excited some one actually wants to buy and display them in their house.
burningheart wrote:
The NEX provided me with a big surprise today. I was showing a person (outside of FM) the images I posted a couple for pages back they asked me if I would be willing to provide them with larger prints of four of the shots. I'm excited some one actually wants to buy and display them in their house.
awesome! i still haven't printed big with the NEX yet.
Here are shots from walking around with NEX and CY28/f2.8, using Novoflex Nikon adapter. CY28/2.8 is converted using Leitax. Novoflex focuses past infinity both with ZF35, and CY28, as I would need to use focus assist anyway, this is not a deal breaker, but was a bit surprised. Built of this adapter is great. Based on what I have been seeing from Philber's experiment, I tried to mix various distance shots to see how this combination behaves. Some are shot in RAW, some are shot in JPG. RAW files were converted using Photoshop raw converter.
New residential tower designed by Frank Gehry (JPG )
This shot shows the plane of focus is indeed curved. (JPG)
Detail on close distance is a strength of this lens (JPG)
Strong raked light is fun. (RAW)
Brooklyn Bridge. White covering sort of looks like art project by Christo, but this is just a construction barrier for Brooklyn Bridge's being repainted. It has been going on for a while, those workers must be frozen. (RAW)
Another Brooklyn Bridge. Shade part presented noise at ISO 200, so I applied some noise reduction. (RAW)
This shot was meant to see how much detail in mid to long distance this combo can show. So it is inherently a bit busy, but it retained a lot of information (RAW)
Long shadow was just so fun to shoot. (jpg)
My tibute to Paul Yi (jpg)
And one high ISO shot ( ISO 3200 ) shot in JPG.
This is a great little fun camera. With ZF35, it was on the long end, with CY28, it is quite small, although not 'pocketable' to most of my jackets.
You are right about the noise in the dark area even at ISO 200. I am not sure what that is about. It was easily removable, but a bit surprised. Not a big deal, but something to be aware of.
How do you get rid of the noise, Akul? To me it is strictly luminance noise, but I don't like the amount of NR I need in LR to remove it. Would uing Noiseninja or Noiseware be a better solution?
