SiMuMe wrote:
My body's having a bit of a mid-life crisis and getting in the way of photography. I take a lot of the plant photos while lying down on the grass around the house. I haven't been able to do much of that lately. It appears I may have a pinched nerve on my left shoulder and it is causing great pain on my left arm. The last thing I wanted to do in the middle of our 4th wave is seeing a doctor and being hospitalised but it is now a serious consideration.
Well, I was able to change lenses this morning and put the 50-135mm on. I am so happy to have a camera with IBIS now. This was at 200mm equivalent and cropped on top of that. I don't think I could have done it with my old X-T2.
GeorgeBo wrote:
I’m working from an iPhone the until tomorrow night so I can’t see much detail but those look good.
Are you shooting the 18mm in 35mm mode on the Fuji or just cropping in post?
George
First is just my cropping off the full image, regretfully my 18 must have a smudge on it and needs cleaning off. You can see the smudge if you look close enough. The second is a two shot stitched pano. It will be interesting to find which lenses really perform verses others that leave defects to deal with like my 15 F/3.5, it catches part of my built in hood in the corners.
What I can say is I am really liking the camera and have a ways to go before I am settled in and cranking out at the level I want. The more I play the more I like it! On of the helicoid adapters arrived so I will try the Nikkors for Bronica a bit this weekend and see how it goes. I have to say, if you have never used MF before, these are just weird! I realized the 200 is focused with the Helicoid, the lens has no focus otherwise.
For anything wider than 50mm you are probably going to find you need true medium format glass. Unfortunately The Nikkor glass for Bronica only went to 40mm. But that is really wide for 6x6
Pentax 645 35mm is an awesome lens. Especially for only a couple hundred bucks
The Nikkor PC 28 covers well and will give you some small amount of shift too. But corners are soft.
AM4L wrote:
First is just my cropping off the full image, regretfully my 18 must have a smudge on it and needs cleaning off. You can see the smudge if you look close enough. The second is a two shot stitched pano. It will be interesting to find which lenses really perform verses others that leave defects to deal with like my 15 F/3.5, it catches part of my built in hood in the corners.
What I can say is I am really liking the camera and have a ways to go before I am settled in and cranking out at the level I want. The more I play the more I like it!...Show more →
GeorgeBo wrote:
For anything wider than 50mm you are probably going to find you need true medium format glass. Unfortunately The Nikkor glass for Bronica only went to 40mm. But that is really wide for 6x6
Pentax 645 35mm is an awesome lens. Especially for only a couple hundred bucks
The Nikkor PC 28 covers well and will give you some small amount of shift too. But corners are soft.
George, I did get the kit lens with it so I do ha e 35-70 if I want to go auto focus. It's all an adventure! I have a lot to look forward!
Thanks Leighton, definitely caught my eye, a nice pile of broad leaves is pretty rare around here, it’s all long leaf pine which is about the least attractive tree in the world. Little bit of fall is probably a little too exciting for me.
One more with the 100, near MFD.
leighton w wrote:
Love the first one. Reminds me of a Youtuber I watch that shoots with a MF camera and is always in the woods.
Hi Ben,
Love your photos. Especially love the one in question. Of course, do what you wish, but I like the pole. It made me look at the
photo several times. To my vision, I like the way it bifurcates the image almost making it into a diptych.
Anyway, good shooting.
regards,
Joe D
Andy - I thought of removing the pole but.......remember the discussion from a few pages back about manipulating images vs integrity etc .....well, that stopped me. Normally, I would tend to favour the photo itself and not worry too much about the integrity, but I'm torn about it. One part of me thinks that a photo is a photo and what is ......is.......and should left as it is. Reality sometimes has hidden beauty and some element in a pic that you may not like at first may reveal its beauty later or it may never appeal to you but it might be the very thing that really appeals to someone else. That has happened often to me. Something that I didn't like in one of my own photos originally ends up looking very different to me a year or two later. You just never know. And of course, I'm constantly surprised by what other people see and like in my pics. They often like pics that I hate and vice versa. That is one reason to leave everything in.
But I don't know, I haven't come to a conclusion about it, as I said, I'm torn. She is a chestnut seller, that is her set up, and that pole (it's an umbrella pole) is huge and very bright. I toned down the brightness because it overwhelmed the pic but I couldn't bring myself to take it out altogether, although from an aesthetic point of view, I agree, I'd rather it wasn't there.
More importantly, congrats on the sensational MCG shot, so good, a wonderful use of that lens.
AdaptedLenses,
I love graphical images, and I love this one too.
Jim
AdaptedLenses wrote:
Thanks Leighton, definitely caught my eye, a nice pile of broad leaves is pretty rare around here, it’s all long leaf pine which is about the least attractive tree in the world. Little bit of fall is probably a little too exciting for me.
AdaptedLenses wrote:
Thanks Leighton, definitely caught my eye, a nice pile of broad leaves is pretty rare around here, it’s all long leaf pine which is about the least attractive tree in the world. Little bit of fall is probably a little too exciting for me.
One more with the 100, near MFD.
I love it for it's simplicity and the colour of the leaf is everything. Might have a couple of dust spots right in the middle of the shot though?
leighton w wrote:
You're killing it lately, well done!
Thanks Leighton. Making hay while the sun shines. I love Melbourne but back to Brisbane next week for my new job.
Brisbane has much better weather but not as many old buildings remain, Melbourne was built earlier of course but has retained a lot of the old architecture.
Fun fact - did you know that the original founder of Melbourne was Batman ? Also that Melbourne was originally called Batmania !!!
John Batman actually. There are still places here such as Batman Hill, Batman Bridge, road etc.
I was at the Library of Congress yesterday, went with the 28 PC on the F6 and was thinking the 15 QD.C would have been a better choice. But this makes me think even better would have been Rafael's super-wide Nikkors.
rafaelcasd wrote:
Just fooling around, the best test shots with no sun in frame I could get from the 8mm f/8, 7.5mm f/5.6, 8mm f/2.8, probably all at f/11, can't be sure with the Z6.
Processing is copy paste.
The f/8 has a poorly defined edge. This lens fits the whole frame, as the Z6 sensor moves it can cut into the circle.
I am so happy to have a camera with IBIS now. This was at 200mm equivalent and cropped on top of that. I don't think I could have done it with my old X-T2.
