Colin,
The details are amazing...from the wire that runs under the lower sash on the second floor left-hand window - to the hand written "We are currently closed" signs on the lower windows.
Jim
DeltaSigma wrote:
85mm, f/1.8, HC on the D610 infrared.
An absolutely cracking lens for IR work.
I like the detail one gets from it.
I need to find an alternative MF lens in the 20mm to 24mm range that has equivalent IR acuity. I have a gap in my go-to IR prime lenses - 16/3.5, ??, 50/2 HC, 85/1.8 HC, 200/4 AI-S
As previously demonstrated, my 24/2.8 NC just doesn't cut the mustard on FX.
Colin
James Markus wrote:
Colin,
The details are amazing...from the wire that runs under the lower sash on the second floor left-hand window - to the hand written "We are currently closed" signs on the lower windows.
Jim
Colin,
I still haven't found anything beyond good to very good in the 20-24mm range. I use to have a mint 24mm f2.0 ais that was gorgeous, but wide open was terribly soft. I ended up with two tries at the 24mm f2.8 ais - last of which was pretty good (manufacture guesstimate about 2004 #796xxx). My 20mm f2.8 ais is mint, and very good when stopped down. It roughly is from the same period as the 24mm (btw both the 20 and 24mm ais are excellent reversed). In January I tested the 16mm f3.5 ai for IR, and de-fished it is approximately equivalent to a 18-20mm lens, but getting the focus perfect was like the 55mm f3.5 - it took multiple tries and checking the back screen to find the perfect focus. Once you have that it is excellent. I use a PS plugin Fisheye Hemi on mine, but I think LR comes with a correction for fisheye built in - it just didn't save as much image area as FH. The 35mm f1.4 ais is excellent for IR - if you stitch 2-3 vertical images together it would approximate the same POV as wider lens. Just thinking out loud. This is the exact territory that Fred seems to be obsessed with. I don't know how many reviews I have read comparing Leica, Zeiss, Voigtlander etc old Nikkors, Minolta, Konica, various zooms...seems to be a very difficult prime to get right.
Good luck
Jim
EDIT: samples of 16mm defished
January 7th 2022 16mm f3.5 ai IR (665nm)
16mm f3.5 ai IR (665nm) De-Fish
DeltaSigma wrote:
Jim,
I need to find an alternative MF lens in the 20mm to 24mm range that has equivalent IR acuity. I have a gap in my go-to IR prime lenses - 16/3.5, ??, 50/2 HC, 85/1.8 HC, 200/4 AI-S
As previously demonstrated, my 24/2.8 NC just doesn't cut the mustard on FX.
Ripolini wrote:
Fontana di Trevi is very nice, but there are always too many people!
Hi, Riccardo,
You are not kidding. Even in low tourist season and a virus spooking some travelers, had to work for a tiny spot to take the first photo.
Regards,
Serge
GeorgeBo wrote:
At first I swore that was a satellite image!
I really like that shot. Some much to examine.
G
Thanks George. I worked that location for awhile, have couple others I'll finish up to share soon. I'm glad it was off the beaten path, I'm sure it was quite a sight the way I had to straddle this little depression with water over it, in slick snow, with no tripod, trying to MF while at times having to balance with the other hand on the ground.
I knew the subject material had potential, but it was not until I called it up on the screen at home that I got to appreciate the amount of detail and stuff to examine.
Few days ago I tried the 105mm f1.8 ais paired with the modified tc-16a, and it balanced very well on the D7200. Used my highly trained models, the cats (which never get on the table or counter tops) to practice. To be fair, they were lured there with an ipad playing youtube cat videos.
Oscar watching birdies. He is convinced that the birds are hiding behind the screen of the ipad
Hamish
Phoebe
The sight that greeted me at the beginning (Charlie front middle. and Ciara on the right)
Today I was looking at my 80mm f5.6 El-Nikkor enlarger lens - wondering how George can focus to infinity with his 135mm El-Nikkor, and the PB-4. It would be quite difficult to frame even something similiar as the fishing reel with the 80mm, because of the short working distance and narrow dof. I do have a Spiratone 35mm macro somewhere - that might work. Anyway, just thinking out loud, and shooting. Perhaps someone may have some bellows tutorial source? I never considered using bellows as a normal lens, but as I learned from Scott - I hadn't thought of using a macro lens for landscapes until seeing his and Ken's photos here.
