William - like so many posts on FM, your images give us a window across the world. The detail and colour vibrancy are striking, but do nothing to keep Contax G (21) prices down
So hard to keep up with the pace of entries on this thread.
Kaunas, on Saturday, in - 23*C (minus 23* Celsius). Strange thing, that such a cold temperature had no effect on the nex battery. I never turned it off, being about 2 hours in the cold. When I got home, lens was frozen from outside
Checked the price for conversion of a contax lens to leica m-mount (real focus), not sure it is worth 500-600 USD.. Wonder how hard it would be to do DIY.
I ran a few more tests and the Contax G 45mm is slightly sharper than the 35mm ZM. Now I'm trying to decide if keeping the ZM is really worth it at a $600 premium over the G 45mm. I like the focus more on the ZM and the G 45mm is using the metabones adapter. I have the kipon coming later this week and maybe that one will work better. Has anyone else shot with both of these lenses?
ulrikft2 wrote:
Checked the price for conversion of a contax lens to leica m-mount (real focus), not sure it is worth 500-600 USD.. Wonder how hard it would be to do DIY.
Here you go. Their adapters are extremely well made.
Kaunas, on Saturday, in - 23*C (minus 23* Celsius). Strange thing, that such a cold temperature had no effect on the nex battery. I never turned it off, being about 2 hours in the cold. When I got home, lens was frozen from outside
Beautiful rendering. That is some cold weather to be out in, did the camera have any issues with the cold?
For those of you who were mentioning the CV 15 and Cornerfix (Legaltrouble, Jonas, et all)...
My thinking may agree with the thoughts of some of you. In some cases I feel that the magenta shift gives the image a little character, like some of the trademarks of older cameras that we know, and only needs to be corrected at our 'artistic discretion'. With the CV 15 I find that I want to correct it more often than not. I also own the 35/2.5 however, which has a lesser degree of color shift and with that lens I rarely correct it, and sometimes even like it a bit.
I generally don't like to see magenta shift in skies, but in other scenes it can be a different story.
I'm sure some of you already know this but Cornerfix can correct the color cast without removing the vignette, which is the way I prefer to do it. I have also recently found a few photos that had an overall strong blue hue (sea, and lots of shade) that I wanted to correct for magenta shift (CV 15) and Cornerfix did not work so well! My only guess is that the overall color palette of the image tripped up the program a bit.
I had considered starting a Cornerfix thread to share experiences, although I don't know how much interest there is in the relatively boring subject
For those who are too lazy to apply Cornerfix, desaturating the Purple channel (not the Magenta channel) to 0 in Lightroom sometimes does the trick. (Assuming there is no purple/magenta in the rest of your image). Actually, I did that in both of the images posted just above.
Al, I missed your beach photos. The shell is nice. I tried a couple of those on my recent trip to the beach but they didn't come out to my liking.
Re: desaturation the purple and/or magenta channels in LR... I have done this too. Just be aware that the end result is different vs. Cornerfix. I generally prefer the results from Cornerfix, but depending on the situation I will use the lazy way too
I'm getting down to the last of my Pt. Reyes photos now. I have posted them more or less in chronological order, all of them being from the same day. So, I am on to the sunset shots finally. All of these with the CV 15, multi-shot stitches except the last.
Jacob D wrote:
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I had considered starting a Cornerfix thread to share experiences, although I don't know how much interest there is in the relatively boring subject
A man gotta do what a man gotta do.
The subject is about as boring as it was to experiment with different developers or temperatures. A bit boring but something that had to be investigated and discussed for good end results.
Jacob D wrote:
For those of you who were mentioning the CV 15 and Cornerfix (Legaltrouble, Jonas, et all)...
My thinking may agree with the thoughts of some of you. In some cases I feel that the magenta shift gives the image a little character, like some of the trademarks of older cameras that we know, and only needs to be corrected at our 'artistic discretion'. With the CV 15 I find that I want to correct it more often than not. I also own the 35/2.5 however, which has a lesser degree of color shift and with that lens I rarely correct it, and sometimes even like it a bit.
I generally don't like to see magenta shift in skies, but in other scenes it can be a different story.
I'm sure some of you already know this but Cornerfix can correct the color cast without removing the vignette, which is the way I prefer to do it. I have also recently found a few photos that had an overall strong blue hue (sea, and lots of shade) that I wanted to correct for magenta shift (CV 15) and Cornerfix did not work so well! My only guess is that the overall color palette of the image tripped up the program a bit.
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Hi, Jacob. I think a CornerFix thread could be helpful. I hear you about the artistic sensibility of purple corners, and I've tried to think of it that way myself, but I unfortunately just don't like the look for my work.
@Jacob you deepen my resolve to buy a CV15, today i missed one attached to a voigtländer bessa for <300€.
brianthos planar shots certaintly looks great, but i already own a Minolta 58/1.2, Minolta 50/1.4 and G45 and no real wideangle.
