cgrille wrote:
Thank you for the link. But I have to test the 50mm lenses in my own possesion. Of the mentioned Nikon lenses I own the 50mm/2 HC, a 50mm/1.8 longnose, a 50mm/1.2 AIs and a 50mm/1.4 SC. And I don't say anyone of these is bad.
But the copy variation in those old lenses and the further 50s of Minolta, C/Y, Olympus, Canon ... make me to choose my own favorite(s) for a general usability (less by evaluation in testcharts).
Of those I would go with the 50 1.2 fist, I really like my 50 HC as well!
I think these are the last in the queue before today's Coffee and Beer pics get processed,
We'll start with what many consider the first Battle Site of the Civil War, just happened upon it by accident. Sorry, there was not a lot to share from that site. More Info at the link if your interested. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Black_Jack
Since we are near Baldwin City, might as well share these next, this is all near the rail depot there where they have some old trains parked and the Feed Company there. I already shared the Feed Company so these two are related to the Rail Depot and two old trains parked there.
Mark, the first two, and the last one, are not available to view.
AM4L wrote:
I think these are the last in the queue before today's Coffee and Beer pics get processed,
We'll start with what many consider the first Battle Site of the Civil War, just happened upon it by accident. Sorry, there was not a lot to share from that site. More Info at the link if your interested. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Black_Jack
Since we are near Baldwin City, might as well share these next, this is all near the rail depot there where they have some old trains parked and the Feed Company there. I already shared the Feed Company so these two are related to the Rail Depot and two old trains parked there.
Ah, my days of shooting Nikon MF glass with a Nikon camera seem to be numbered as the A7RIII came out today - likely scuttling my plans to get a D850 for tripod-only work. Sony just answered Nikon's D850 offering for some of us.
Sony full frame mirroless - you really ought to try it at least once.
jhinkey wrote:
Ah, my days of shooting Nikon MF glass with a Nikon camera seem to be numbered as the A7RIII came out today - likely scuttling my plans to get a D850 for tripod-only work. Sony just answered Nikon's D850 offering for some of us.
Sony full frame mirroless - you really ought to try it at least once.
John, its a cool offering, however, Nikon has something on the way and while the Sony looks very interesting, I am not at all impressed with the quality of the bodies.
A search of used A7rII's on eBay shows them with horrible wear, paint rubbed off on edges and hot shoe, a few with the outer grip shell coming off, one even with a missing screw, and the LCD's look to be in horrid shape.
I think Sony really needs to work on that before I get interested and try another one. If I were to get one it would have to wear one of those silicon skins and definitely an LCD protector. I don't intend to be mean with this, but I just so happened to be looking at used Sony's on eBay yesterday and was shocked with the appearances of them and being yet so young as cameras. was also not all that excited about the performance of the adapted lenses on the edges and corners. That is one thing while at a lower resolution the Df does exceedingly well for some reason and even the Leica is beating what the Sony achieved as far as corners. Its a shame we cant get a Leica body with Sony innards and real RF controls.
I do fear Nikon will fall very short on their offering as far as features go, but will just have to wait and see. I applaud Sony for their new color capture and expanded DR feature, and, I have been lobbying for using rapid multi exposure to increase DR for years, I think all the way back to 2008. There quoted 15 stops of DR totally rocks!
I too am interested in the Sony, but besides reliability and support, another concern of mine is cold weather performance. Users report that A7Rs fail in cold weather. My D750 works without a hitch, all day, below 10F (but I use 4 new batteries for a single shoot!)
I too am interested in the Sony, but besides reliability and support, another concern of mine is cold weather performance. Users report that A7Rs fail in cold weather. My D750 works without a hitch, all day, below 10F (but I use 4 new batteries for a single shoot!)
My A7RII has not failed me in cold snowy wet weather. My A7R however did (back rocker buttong went South when damp). I believe the A7RIII will be even better than the -II.
AM4L wrote:
John, its a cool offering, however, Nikon has something on the way and while the Sony looks very interesting, I am not at all impressed with the quality of the bodies.
A search of used A7rII's on eBay shows them with horrible wear, paint rubbed off on edges and hot shoe, a few with the outer grip shell coming off, one even with a missing screw, and the LCD's look to be in horrid shape.
I think Sony really needs to work on that before I get interested and try another one. If I were to get one it would have to wear one of those silicon skins and definitely an LCD protector. I don't intend to be mean with this, but I just so happened to be looking at used Sony's on eBay yesterday and was shocked with the appearances of them and being yet so young as cameras. was also not all that excited about the performance of the adapted lenses on the edges and corners. That is one thing while at a lower resolution the Df does exceedingly well for some reason and even the Leica is beating what the Sony achieved as far as corners. Its a shame we cant get a Leica body with Sony innards and real RF controls.
I do fear Nikon will fall very short on their offering as far as features go, but will just have to wait and see. I applaud Sony for their new color capture and expanded DR feature, and, I have been lobbying for using rapid multi exposure to increase DR for years, I think all the way back to 2008. There quoted 15 stops of DR totally rocks!
You know, I don't abuse my gear, nor do I baby it and I've had no real issues other than my original A7R not liking being damp. Would it survive a fall from 3 feet to solid rock as well as my D800 - likely not - just due to the density of everything packed in there that has to work well together. That being said, they will take use and abuse. Who knows what those people have done to their cameras to get them to those awful shape - perhaps that's why they are on ebay.
A better source for an A7RII would be the FM B&S forum
jhinkey wrote:
You know, I don't abuse my gear, nor do I baby it and I've had no real issues other than my original A7R not liking being damp. Would it survive a fall from 3 feet to solid rock as well as my D800 - likely not - just due to the density of everything packed in there that has to work well together. That being said, they will take use and abuse. Who knows what those people have done to their cameras to get them to those awful shape - perhaps that's why they are on ebay.
A better source for an A7RII would be the FM B&S forum ...Show more →
I personally have had 2 of them before, I just wasn't impressed. Also, I am someone that babies my gear so it can be resold for top dollar when I move on. I read more about the pixel shift, not quite as nifty as I thought. Seems one has to wait up to 30 seconds between shots.. that doesn't sound good for landscapes.
We'll just has to see what happens when people have them in hands in December. Maybe you can give us the scoop on it!
So John's going Sony A7RIII? Well, I'm going Canon 5D Mark IV. In the meantime my "new" Nikkor 10 cm 2.5 PC in Leica screw mount arrived today. This is it next to it's pre ai and ai/ais successors. I don't think it's as good as the later lenses....and it's very hard to focus on the M10.
bruni wrote:
So John's going Sony A7RIII? Well, I'm going Canon 5D Mark IV. In the meantime my "new" Nikkor 10 cm 2.5 PC in Leica screw mount arrived today. This is it next to it's pre ai and ai/ais successors. I don't think it's as good as the later lenses....and it's very hard to focus on the M10.
Dan, love the processing on the Auger Falls series. The details and sharpening seem right on on my screen.
Phillipe, great timing on the bird jumping off the rock.
Kristian, both my 16mm non-AI's fit on the D800 without modification. I was initially worried about the AI ring, but there seems to be enough clearance. I do think, however, that I'll send it in to John White for the AI modification.
Colin, the river Lednock looks like a good place to spend some time.
Great cars as usual Peter. I do like the wider shots with the settings shown more too.
Mark, keep up the b&w series. You may just tempt me to head out with the camera set to JPEG and B&W (with RAW background capture, of course).
Lestor, the first shot in the "Autumn Opening Up" is great! The concept and execution is wonderful.
