Jacob: saw your comment afterwards but I agree, too much selective sharpening disturbs that otherwise very promising shot. What Biogon 28/2.8 is that, the Contax G?
Frezeiss: very nice shots. You have introduced some interesting vintage PP on those. Any hints please? Really like the comp (and PP) of #1!
wfrank wrote:
Jacob: saw your comment afterwards but I agree, too much selective sharpening disturbs that otherwise very promising shot. What Biogon 28/2.8 is that, the Contax G?
I took another stab at it, not sure what happened. I think it's still not quite right, to my taste, but probably good enough for now.
It's not selective sharpening. I brought this one into CS4, which I don't do with most of the shots I post here. I needed to clone a few things out and was also trying to prevent some banding that I couldn't avoid in LR. Anyway, my standard resize and sharpen technique with CS4 apparently doesn't play well with Flickr, which I'm still learning to deal with (non-pro account). When working in LR only I can simply export with resize to 1600px wide and sharpen for screen at the standard amount. Flickr will downsize it to 1024px wide and does its annoying internal processing, but the end result looks "good enough for the web" usually with this combination.
I have learned so far not to simply size my images to 1024 (or anything in the ballpark) as Flickr will then assume it's going to resize them and still apply its processing, which looks even worse on a photo that has not been resized.
By the way, it was the Contax G Biogon (is there another 28/2.8 Biogon?). I updated my previous post to reflect that.
I posted a couple of these links in the NEX best wide angle thread, but thought I'd add them here in case anyone is interested. I had a 5N on loan for a couple weeks and did some test shots with all my rangefinder lenses on it.
Some of it is the same scene shot with each lens at all f/stops from wide open to f/11, including full resolution links.
Looked for 10 mins at the planar vs sony @ f/4. well five anyway.
Almost looks as if they have that 1.8 as sharp as OIS and plastic can produce To my eye the planar is clearly more crisp---but the sony seems very respectable.
I wonder how the contax G 45 stands up against the Planar
I have many 50s--I love the various old ones on the nex
JimBuchanan wrote:
Anyway, uhoh7, I see from your photos that you live close to the mountains and as an old trials bike advocate, I noticed the bikes in the photos. Are we talking NorCal or Colorado? Forgive me for not following every thread on FM but I just don't remember any locale descriptions to your photos.
Nice photos, BTW.
Hi Jim,
I only follow a handful of threads myself--as you know better than me the place has many good shooters and a few who accidentally take a middling shot here and there and perhaps share more than they should-- like me.
But Andrew's pretense to taste is a shame, because there are many who really do have great shots, but hold them back because of that sort of "mentoring".
I just hope some of my less than brillant examples will inspire some of these folks to post more out of sheer mercy
Typical shooter today: highly jaded and hypersensitive. Which is a somewhat limiting concoction, hehe. Even the most level-headed sometimes confess they are seldom "wowed" by any image--one guy said he never saw a single nex image that impressed him! Meanwile some of the best photographers in the world are selling work shot with an iphone! Open up a bit, I say.
Now to what makes leica mtf pale by comparision: my little spanish beauty. http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7027/6450693411_4a9c27c151_b.jpg
(leica 50/2)
Now by Andrew's ethos I should certainly not own, let alone use such a thing as this, but luckily financial nessessity preculdes that sort of constipated police state In short: Spain needs money.
Jim, you probably had a sherpa T or the like back in the day---I had a suzuiki 250 produced in the wake of "On any Sunday"--which i did ride in norcal.
Unlike travel poster photography, things have progressed in the field of trials motorcycles--as you likely know
I enjoy your site, and I hope someday you will put aside the modern notions of aperture clicks and lens barrels that don't rotate---and maybe do some contax to M conversions!
Wow, some more great shots added. I will have to take my time to come back to them for comments.
For now some shots from our annual parade of boats. All with 5N + CV 40/1.4 @ 2.8, ISO 1600. Cut me a little slack on these, swiftly moving boats and 1/50 hand held isn't my usual thing
About NEX to c/y adapters, Fotodiox for example. Is it the kind you can live in the camera and change the lenses on top of it, or do I have to buy one for each lens?
Nice shots with the kit, I find some on the edge of oversharpened (something I do all the time myself) but never the less quite impressive.
Last shot have an artificial sky right? I think I've been there, an in-house Piazza in Las Vegas, right? I remember walking in some culverts after a long exhibition day ending up in a place like that. Even had an artificial breeze going on. It took me more than 10 minutes to actually realize we weren't outside
To my eye the planar is clearly more crisp---but the sony seems very respectable.