Jay, These lighthouse fog images are gorgeous! This one with the deer watching - you can't plan that (fog machine, sure ), but not wildlife. Bravo!
Jim
HCE HCE wrote:
Last winter a rogue wave broke through the seaward facing doors seen here and damaged the museum in the base of the lighthouse!
I am more than pleased with the performance of my copy of the 28mm f3.5 Nikkor PC. Even with a UV filter, and the modified TC-16a it has an impressive sharpness, and 3D look. At an EFL of 45mm the only softness was mild in the corners.
No sharpening, just imaged through LRC (someone was hanging ornaments in the park) The four 100% samples were each 1400 pixels wide - so stacking them onto one 1400 pixel image obviously down sampled them a bit.
Stitched images - also with no sharpening (First with 6 images and second with 7)
And a kitty photo contribution from me. She was sitting in the sunbeam with the heat from the heating unit additionally blasting away at her (the white thing on the right is the remote for that heater). Just couldn't resist grabbing the Z7 II with the 85 1.8 HC sitting right next to me.
Oosty wrote:
Choosing to be indoors I put a couple of lenses on the Z5 and used a tripod and flash with a light yellow gel to take some pics of Cape Gooseberries on a velvet cloth.
The colours are slightly different due to PP changes - in the 2nd case I used the Z5 linear profile as the starting point
With the 80 - 200 f4 which is still a very capable lens
Very good point about the need for a tripod for the 28, and actually in general other shift/ tilt-shift lenses. And I have had trouble focusing with it sitting at a restaurant with not very good light.
Oosty wrote:
Samy, I liked the performance on my D200 where it was equivalent to 45mm.
Once again some of the softness may be attributed to "old eyes" even though I used focus peaking through the viewfinder.
I also think to be effective the camera should be on a tripod and a range of images shot using the lens ability to control distortion. These can then be stitched in post to produce a high quality pano. I took a Joel Grimes course this year and he uses a PC lens for some close up work. My go to lens on the D7100 was the 28 2.8 which matched the camera very well and was feather light (my copy looks like a relic from a war zone) .
That is exactly the way I had always used the 28mm PC is on a tripod. Both for studio product shots, and real estate. This time it was all handheld, but no shift employed. I wonder what the straight 28m f2.8 ais versus the PC would show. Oh, don't know if I care enough to test that one.
saph wrote:
Very good point about the need for a tripod for the 28, and actually in general other shift/ tilt-shift lenses. And I have had trouble focusing with it sitting at a restaurant with not very good light.
HCE HCE wrote:
Last winter a rogue wave broke through the seaward facing doors seen here and damaged the museum in the base of the lighthouse!
Outstanding. The mood and atmosphere already has all the icing, the deer is just piling it on.
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James Markus wrote:
I am more than pleased with the performance of my copy of the 28mm f3.5 Nikkor PC. Even with a UV filter, and the modified TC-16a it has an impressive sharpness, and 3D look. At an EFL of 45mm the only softness was mild in the corners.
James, excellent photograph with the 16/3.5. That lens is an absolute winner and never boring.
Jay, most excellent foggy capture.
Sintra, Portugal:
Sintra is a historic hilltop town a short train ride from Lisbon. It is an extremely popular destination thanks to its picturesque setting and elaborate gardens castles and palaces. I cannot see visiting unless it is the off tourist season and even then, there will be no shortage of visitors.
Two of the reasons for its popularity are at the top of the hill, left is The Castle of the Moors (9th century) and ............
Pena National Palace (1854), built on the ruins of a monastery destroyed by the 1755 earthquake. It is one uniquely colorful structure and the main attraction of Sintra. Tickets are sold by time slots and they fill up pronto, purchase early.
The weather forecast was rubbish but thankfully had a brief break.
), but not wildlife. Bravo!
