Visited the Gallipoli exhibit at the Te Papa museum in Wellington, New Zealand. It's a striking and moving exhibit telling the story of those from New Zealand who fought there in World War I. One very compelling part of the display are a series of sculptures made by the Weta Workshop depicting people from the campaign at hyper-realistic 2X scale. Here are a few shots of those sculptures, all taken hand-held with an M10 and M-Rokkor 40mm F2 lens. Shot around 1/30th sec, F2.8, ISO 3200. Minimal processing in Lightroom. (Larger images can be seen at mdemeyer.leicaimages.com and it's worth looking to appreciate these amazing works.)
This past weekend, I took the Minolta Rokkor 100mm f2 lens over for a family get together and tried the lens out on the Sony A7RIII. I like this focal length and the lens seems very sharp with very smooth bokeh. Nabbing focus wide open isn't always completely tack but I think this takes practice. I didn't have much problem being completely oof but being dead-on took great care. It's a good lens and I'm glad to have a copy. When I get to know my Sony better, I will have better settings. I could have cranked the first shot down to 800 ISO at 1/400/sec. or even less.
The Minolta MC 1.2/58 Review was one of my very first ones. Since the I have learned a lot about lenses so I just remade the review from the ground up.
