AM4L wrote:
Thanks Rafael, I confess I am very unhappy about that! I will try the magnification! I have used some of the other focus modes on the Fuji and am reasonably content.
Leighton, I will see if opening up helps me get critical focus. Peaking is really nice to visually see your DOF, but wider lenses I like just using the dot and mentally estimating my DOF.
At this moment I am liking the Fuji a lot more than the Z, lol..
With evf or live view I have always used magnification for critical focus, I suppose it reminds me of using a loupe on a field camera and I am comfortable with it from past experience, but nearly always at full aperture as I did with film. No problem these days with image brightness but lower depth of field and focus helps to hit the spot. Only exception would be if the lens has focus shift (I've never had anything exotic enough to have that) or lenses like my old 50mm pre aspheric Summilux where full aperture was low in contrast, one stop fown was easier.
Never found green dot on my dslr Nikon very nice, too much movement of the focus ring available before the green light goes out, and you are at the mercy of mis adjustment of the sensor. The D7000 was quite a way out when I bought it.
I’ll look and see how I did it. It’s been a while. If I remember it correctly, I had to rotate the focus ring to make room for the lever to pull out.
rafaelcasd wrote:
Need help!!!!!
Started to install the AI kit on the 300mm 4.5K, yes I do have the JIS screwdrivers.
HOWEVER, the aperture lever stays on the bayonet mount and does not allow that to be removed. I am sure there is a trick to separate these two.
Do you know what to do?? Chuong, you can do this with your eyes closed, please explain to me.
James Markus wrote:
Shot the 55mm_f3.5_AI'd Nikkor P.C today as a landscape lens. Five giant stitches from 14,000 t0 29,500 pixels wide each. Every single frame from the 55mm AI'd was sharp edge to edge at f5.6 and f8. Slightly better at f5.6. I also used it to shoot 720nm IR, macro, and as a normal lens. 200 frames in less than an hour. For infinity I set it to the red IR dot instead of the hard stop. My first four frames were 2 for exposure (manual settings) and two to compare infinity on objects miles away. Red dot wins for infinity focus on this copy.
North West river view 19,000 + pixels wide out of 15 vertical images. While I was shooting this I didn't even see the radio tower 4.5 miles away (my eyes are not so good + flat lighting). Not only did the 55mm resolve the tower, but you can just make out the tower support cables. I also was distracted by waves traveling up stream?
North East river view
While stitching the 28,000 + pixel wide image again a 15 image. I discovered where those waves came were being made. At the very right edge of the stitch is a commercial paddle wheel that had gone upstream before I even got there.
James, very nice analysis of the 55mm f3.5 Ai'd P.C. I had not noticed the red dot on my copy until you pointed it out. I will have to try some distance images at the hard stop vs the red dot to see which performs better on my copy. Thanks for sharing.
Scott
From yesterday evening after work, decided to take the XT-4 and 800 F5.6 out for more testing. Frames have Camera/Lens Info. I left one shot uncropped so you can see how the 800 vignettes with speed booster on the XT-4. Gloomy weather here this weekend plus trapped here waiting for a delivery this afternoon so not sure if I will get much camera time. Hoping everyone is having a great weekend!
AM4L wrote:
From yesterday evening after work, decided to take the XT-4 and 800 F5.6 out for more testing. Frames have Camera/Lens Info. I left one shot uncropped so you can see how the 800 vignettes with speed booster on the XT-4. Gloomy weather here this weekend plus trapped here waiting for a delivery this afternoon so not sure if I will get much camera time. Hoping everyone is having a great weekend!
Looks good Mark. Good behind the scenes shot to give perspective
SiMuMe wrote:
I have much respect for street shooters. The imagery is very interesting but knowing what it takes to get these shots, I'd be hopeless.
James, thanks for all the information and testing you have shared about the 55mm micro. Highly enlightening.
Simume - thank you, but I just press the shutter and hope for the best. I could never do bird photography like people do here, with 400, 500, 600mm lenses, and I couldn't do landscape photography like Ronny off in Iceland.
bruni wrote:
Simume - thank you, but I just press the shutter and hope for the best. I could never do bird photography like people do here, with 400, 500, 600mm lenses, and I couldn't do landscape photography like Ronny off in Iceland.
nikon 20mm f3.5UD/Canon R5
Ben
Hope Ben? - I seriously doubt it.
There is a lot of foresight, planning and craft involved in doing what you do so well.
Getting my Halloween images in early. Work is all consuming at the moment.
Flickr is running a Lego photo contest. I happened to be playing around with the 55/2.8 micro a week or so ago with this guy.
The 40/2 (plastic fantastic) that is glued to my Z6 at the moment was no match for the 55/2.8.
GeorgeBo wrote:
Looks good Mark. Good behind the scenes shot to give perspective
Did you have IBIS off while on the tripod?
I believe it was on, I need to shore up my tripod, was taking 7-8 seconds to settle down and I wasn't using remote on my phone. Bit by bit I will get it all up to speed!
Serge,
Have you ever been inside that building? It looks like the floors are running down hill - as well as no plumb walls. Bet the dry wallers used some salty language on that job.
Jim
serge07 wrote:
These are from September that just got around to tweaking. One would need a jacket now as fall temperatures have arrived.
DeltaSigma wrote:
Getting my Halloween images in early. Work is all consuming at the moment.
Flickr is running a Lego photo contest. I happened to be playing around with the 55/2.8 micro a week or so ago with this guy.
The 40/2 (plastic fantastic) that is glued to my Z6 at the moment was no match for the 55/2.8.
Colin, may I make a suggestion - I think that in the B&W the white background is too bright, it's not scary or Halloweeny. And the background in the colour version is very colourful, looks like he's at a disco. Did you try shooting him from a different angle, a more exaggerated angle, maybe from down low shooting up, to make him look bigger, and maybe tilt him forward so his head doesn't disappear?
See, I was right, you should just press the shutter and hope for the best.
Colin, may I make a suggestion - I think that in the B&W the white background is too bright, it's not scary or Halloweeny. And the background in the colour version is very colourful, looks like he's at a disco. Did you try shooting him from a different angle, a more exaggerated angle, maybe from down low shooting up, to make him look bigger, and maybe tilt him forward so his head doesn't disappear?
See, I was right, you should just press the shutter and hope for the best.
ben
Lego minatures. About 2 inches high.
A work colleague donated the small collection she had (adorned her monitor stand) to me when she left the company.
I should have researched this more. Turns out this is Jack Skellington (Nightmare Before Christmas) and on closer inspection I also have his partner Mary. The thing on Jack's head is a box of presents - not a hat! Epic fail.
Totally shocked that the pair will set you back $40.
It is raining again - feels like weeks and weeks of rain. Here are some more from yesterday's 60 minutes of gray skies, no sun, and no rain with 55mm AI'd Nikkor P.C
