DeltaSigma wrote:
Hard to believe that this was taken around 6pm on a busy Friday evening.
No busses, traffic, or people getting in the way of the shot.
I lucked out with the solitary figure in the foreground.
University of Maryland's venerable Hornbake library building. F6, 35 2.8 PC-Nikkor and Portra 400. Spilled some tap water into the lab box during the bleach step (a little accident and opportunity for process improvement ) but managed to retrieve some frames. Need to remake the bleach before getting on with an XP2 and more Portra rolls.
Colin - those night shots are wonderful. I couldn't, wouldn't, pick a favourite. Amazing rendition with the 24mm. But I've got to say, the shot of Her Majesty's is perfect, and as you say, unlikely to be repeated, well, here's hoping anyway.
Leighton - that QC version looks good, but that means buying ANOTHER lens....... by the way, we wouldn't consider that pizza here, that's a quiche to us. Still, now that you're inviting us, I'd happily take a a slice.....or two.
Ben
Now Leighton has two eager customers for the American pizza/Roman quiche!
And here's the scene in front of the Hornbake library at the University of Maryland. That space is much gentrified since I wandered around campus (its been a while
Ben I forgot you had a 135mm f/3.5, Years ago my local store sold me my first Nikkor 135mm, a f/2.8 Q and I bought it simply because it was such a bargain. I am partial to wides but was charmed by the 10x15 degree perspective and bought almost every different 135mm model I could find, so that Q was a gateway drug. I still like that fov for some reason.
Colin What goes wrong when you shoot with your 135mm?
Even more 135mm f/2 on the D800 examples are below.
DeltaSigma wrote:
Hard to believe that this was taken around 6pm on a busy Friday evening.
No busses, traffic, or people getting in the way of the shot.
I lucked out with the solitary figure in the foreground.
Santa Maria Del Fiore. The craftsmanship of the cathedral never ceases to blow me away.
Affection Italian style and was great to see that there is no shortage of it.
I was looking forward to photographing the dome from a center perspective but access was very restricted. This view was all that was possible plus the lighting was dimmer than I recall.
SiMuMe wrote:
Lovely photos, as usual Colin. The night ones are so full of colour. I always wonder about the London night scene ones if you just hop on the tube when the sun sets and say see you later?
Siphiwe,
I don't live in London and rarely stay overnight otherwise I would be out and about.
There is so much to photograph in a major city. London is a great canvas after the sun sets.
Night time photography is much easier armed with IBIS and the great ISO performance from the Z6ii.
serge07 wrote:
Santa Maria Del Fiore. The craftsmanship of the cathedral never ceases to blow me away.
Affection Italian style and was great to see that there is no shortage of it. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51740559862_41b0fbc54a_h.jpg
I was looking forward to photographing the dome from a center perspective but access was very restricted. This view was all that was possible plus the lighting was dimmer than I recall.
Jay - there are too many gateway drugs in manual focus land, way too many. I've had all the versions of the 135mm too, and having sold them all I feel particularly stupid buying them again. But, as I've said, I don't know whether it's sample variation or the Canon sensor or both, my memories of them are very different. For example, I remember the f2 version having buttery bokeh but it has the same 7 sided hexagonal bokeh of the f2.8 version (and the 35mm f2 O) - which I see in your second pic. I really like the last pic with the flowers receding further and further into the blur.
Samy - someone needs to speak to the University of Maryland - it's a shame to have that huge satellite dish at the front of the library building.
this is the 135mm f3.5......with lots of "all pervading darkness" as Samy would call it.
bruni wrote:
Jay - there are too many gateway drugs in manual focus land, way too many. I've had all the versions of the 135mm too, and having sold them all I feel particularly stupid buying them again. But, as I've said, I don't know whether it's sample variation or the Canon sensor or both, my memories of them are very different. For example, I remember the f2 version having buttery bokeh but it has the same 7 sided hexagonal bokeh of the f2.8 version (and the 35mm f2 O) - which I see in your second pic. I really like the last pic with the flowers receding further and further into the blur.
Samy - someone needs to speak to the University of Maryland - it's a shame to have that huge satellite dish at the front of the library building.
this is the 135mm f3.5......with lots of "all pervading darkness" as Samy would call it.
Ben,
I think the f2.0 have 9 blades. (except on a prototype that had 6 blades) I chose the AI f2.0 version because it has a longer focus throw (270 degrees versus 200 with the AIS) However, whatever you used for this shot is excellent.
Jim
bruni wrote:
Jay - there are too many gateway drugs in manual focus land, way too many. I've had all the versions of the 135mm too, and having sold them all I feel particularly stupid buying them again. But, as I've said, I don't know whether it's sample variation or the Canon sensor or both, my memories of them are very different. For example, I remember the f2 version having buttery bokeh but it has the same 7 sided hexagonal bokeh of the f2.8 version (and the 35mm f2 O) - which I see in your second pic. I really like the last pic with the flowers receding further and further into the blur.
Samy - someone needs to speak to the University of Maryland - it's a shame to have that huge satellite dish at the front of the library building.
this is the 135mm f3.5......with lots of "all pervading darkness" as Samy would call it.
James Markus wrote:
Ben,
I think the f2.0 have 9 blades. (except on a prototype that had 6 blades) I chose the AI f2.0 version because it has a longer focus throw (270 degrees versus 200 with the AIS) However, whatever you used for this shot is excellent.
Jim
Yes, you're right Jim, I recounted the sides in Jay's pics, it's 9. Still, 7 or 9, I wish it weren't so geometric. Canon shooters call the Canon 135mm f2 the Lord of the Rings, it is sensational, and if Curtis were here he would agree, he used to be a big fan of the Canon (now if that comment doesn't flush him out, nothing will).
Colin - that's exactly what we need, a new acronym.
The National Portrait Gallery is in the background alongside a very threadbare Xmas tree.
The tree in the square has been given to the UK by Norway every year since 1947. Sombody didn't read the requirements correctly since a third of it is missing. It doesn't look great from some angles.
I wonder what the UK government has done to annoy the Norwegians? Let's face it - the sitting government is not doing a stellar job with all the sleaze and their apparent use of one rule for us, and another rule for everyone else.....
) but managed to retrieve some frames. Need to remake the bleach before getting on with an XP2 and more Portra rolls.
