The beautiful little 28/2.8 AI-S arrived today from Japan, took less than 4 days from hitting the buy button to arriving at my door. Took a test image and am impressed by the accurate color and contrast, I would never know by the image that it was an old manual focus film-era lens. Only changes in Lightroom were slight fine-tuning of WB, adding 0.5 exposure, + 30 whites, sharpening, and cropping a bit from bottom. Nikon glass has always given me a neutral palette to work with and I really appreciate that.
Ross Martin wrote:
The beautiful little 28/2.8 AI-S arrived today from Japan, took less than 4 days from hitting the buy button to arriving at my door. Took a test image and am impressed by the accurate color and contrast, I would never know by the image that it was an old manual focus film-era lens. Only changes in Lightroom were slight fine-tuning of WB, adding 0.5 exposure, + 30 whites, sharpening, and cropping a bit from bottom. Nikon glass has always given me a neutral palette to work with and I really appreciate that.
Looks right at home. I find all Nikkors make the camera body look better.
something like this? I keep forgetting to update, while I'm out after surgery, I am going to try to get it all caught up
James Markus wrote:
I suggest you start a spreadsheet on photography gear. That way you can track what you have, what you paid, from who/where, the date, price, condition, and if you sold it. Unfortunately, nostalgia makes condition, prices, and time better - a spreadsheet is a wonderful splash of reality.
NightOwl Cat wrote:
something like this? I keep forgetting to update, while I'm out after surgery, I am going to try to get it all caught up
Yep. I have been keeping up with documenting my GAS for about 20 years now. I do it through Libre Cal, and have switch to a dark theme so I don't have to wear sun glasses.
Good bit of shooting recently, it’s been the warm, foggy weather I love in the spring and fall. But little time to process or keep up with the pace here (love it). I’ve tried to dole out the well deserved likes, sorry to any I’ve missed. One from yesterday with the 85mm f/1.8 K mount.
One more from the 400mm f/5.6, really enjoying this lens. Random question for the Sony shooters though, I’ve been playing with the A7III again and I’m getting what I’d describe as color posterization. A couple versions of the shot to show what I mean, changing the WB makes dramatic differences in the color separations/transitions. Is this an artifact of Compressed RAW?
AdaptedLenses wrote:
One more from the 400mm f/5.6, really enjoying this lens. Random question for the Sony shooters though, I’ve been playing with the A7III again and I’m getting what I’d describe as color posterization. A couple versions of the shot to show what I mean, changing the WB makes dramatic differences in the color separations/transitions. Is this an artifact of Compressed RAW?
I can’t speak for Sony, but banding is usually a compression artifact. My D600 I had was awful with banding if I let it do any compression anywhere in the process. I could never use the in camera engine for anything with a gradient in it.
AdaptedLenses wrote:
One more from the 400mm f/5.6, really enjoying this lens. Random question for the Sony shooters though, I’ve been playing with the A7III again and I’m getting what I’d describe as color posterization. A couple versions of the shot to show what I mean, changing the WB makes dramatic differences in the color separations/transitions. Is this an artifact of Compressed RAW?
The specs for compressed vs uncompressed raw on the Sony A7III is 14 bit - many many billions of colors (levels of color luminosity). The color space you shoot in can help in the down sampling. Pro, Adobe, and sRGB the choices in most cameras, and in the A7II it is only srgb, and Adobe. I would set it to Adobe, because it's palette of colors is about 20-30% greater (both are in the 2-3 millions of color levels of luminosity), and both fit within the 16.7 million color jpg container file (bucket) You can test your compressed vs uncompressed raw by saving it as a 16 bit tif. The 16 bit container file (bucket) can hold 281 trillion colors (or shades of color levels of luminosity) So, I doubt you will see any difference. I would just make conversion to the srgb profile the very last step in imaging the file so it's colors look right on the web.
EDIT
Here is a really good explaination of color space. If you scroll down to the color chart with all three spaces overlaid - you can visually see the differences.
Ross Martin wrote:
The beautiful little 28/2.8 AI-S arrived today from Japan, took less than 4 days from hitting the buy button to arriving at my door. Took a test image and am impressed by the accurate color and contrast, I would never know by the image that it was an old manual focus film-era lens. Only changes in Lightroom were slight fine-tuning of WB, adding 0.5 exposure, + 30 whites, sharpening, and cropping a bit from bottom. Nikon glass has always given me a neutral palette to work with and I really appreciate that.
Ross, what size are those prints? Very nice! I would assume all those were taken by you using large format 4 x 5?
ocean2059 wrote:
Ross, what size are those prints? Very nice! I would assume all those were taken by you using large format 4 x 5?
Thanks! I’ve turned the front two rooms of my home into a gallery, 14 prints hanging so far. I printed most on 22 x 17 Canson fine art rag papers. I have three from my 4x5 film days and everything else is from digital, two medium format and the rest fullframe.
The 105 with tubes can also be quite interesting for macro - a coiple of crude stacks handheld with a slight wind disturbance. Good colours though. 52.5 PN11 plus 20mm Kenko tube
Many will remember that in 2011 Curtis also started a thread on the Macro forum "Shooting with Tubes"
Some of the shots were also with NMFG and I've found that the 300 4.5 coupled to extension tubes works very well for insect "macros". I couldn't get close to a dragonfly in the yard with the 105 and chnaged it for the 300. I got a couple of fair shots but then went hunting near a pond on our estate.
There were a coupl of very athletic damselflies in the throes of repruduction as well as one that sat around.
Such a lush green in contrast to our landscape going into winter.
It also reminds me of it being such a difference from your post a number of years ago from the wildfires that were there.
George
Oosty wrote:
Good morning from a sunny Knysna.
A couple of panos of the view from our deck at 6:45 am today - looks promising.
105 2.5 at f8 ISO100 1/400
GeorgeBo wrote:
Such a lush green in contrast to our landscape going into winter.
It also reminds me of it being such a difference from your post a number of years ago from the wildfires that were there.
George
Wow George that was 7 years ago - it is amazing how the vegetation renewed itself. There is a pioneer plant - the tick berry - which took over and grew into sizable shrubs. A los of the burnt shrubs and bushes regenerated themselves and we are back to where we started.. It stays green all year round and we have a fairly high annual rainfall which gave rise to a thriving timber industry from the 1700's to about 1950 when most of the big trees in the forests had been cut down. They are also slowly making a comeback but most of the trees grown now are exotic pines and eucalypts for the lumber industry.
