PeterGlaso,
Profound timeless portrait,
I spend my professional time on ancient or medieval psychological texts.
You created a great character image there.
@frezeiss: I've been wanting to get the ZM 25 ever since I saw some images here in the archive. Do you have the latest version of the Hawk's adapter with the large tab to control the helicoid? If so does it get in the way? Looks like Hawk's has sold out of their
@legaltrouble: as others have mentioned I think you need another body for your other lenses
@freaklikeme: I already had the pictures so not much trouble. Just needed to upload them to flicker (after wiping out the plate numbers).
Here's the flare comparison between the 24mm Canon FD and the 24mm Sony Zeiss ZA both at f/2.0. The angle was a little different but I think you get the idea.
Some more sunflower pictures. This time with the 50mm SMC Takumar at either f/1.4 or f/2.0.
Jacob, I really dont know what plants they are except they're quite a trend lately. I was at the parent house that time.
About the 40 Nokton, I agree that wide open it would look characterful on people but sometimes I like it while the other time not so much. Anyways, lovey shot you got there,,
freaklikeme, the summicrons pre ASPH was on my shortlist also, like the V3 pre ASPH but finding a mint one was a little hard and the lens was reported to have a soft appearance wide open but better by f/2.8. Unfortunately that was not the type of performance I was looking for. I have no idea about the 90 summarit though.
The 75 summarit is excellent and small, perhaps the cons are its a little near to a 50 mm.
Philipe, lovely rendering with the 60 R. Your elmar has arrived, no?
bokchoy, very nice sunflowers. We dont have them too often in this part of the world
Phillip Reeve wrote:
really like your work with the lens. I just bought a G28 (290€ attached to a G1), really looking forward to it :-).
Thanks. Looking forward much to see you putting the G28 at work. And I'm sure you'll find some usage to the extra feature that lens came with, perhaps put a tri-X in when Nik Silver Efex just dont look right :-)
sebboh: the car is fabulous! Love the faint/cross colors. Is the DOF all natural with that lens or have you strengthened it in any way?
daleaherman: that 5N/G90 shot really proves we have space technology at our hands.
martin: I never see those motifs. Thanks for continued inspiration
contrelamontre wrote: Martin: Very nice, all of them. I really, really like your meticulous compositions and the well-tempered use of the sliders in PP (nowadays unfortunatly the exception rather than the rule).
snowboarder wrote:
Martin, that one would be a great iPad wallpaper!
Would you share the 2048x1536 version?
wfrank wrote:
martin: I never see those motifs. Thanks for continued inspiration
Thanks for the kind words, all! Snowboarder, I'll see what I can do. Can I send it to your email? I don't want to put such large files up on the web. Just send me a PM.
Jacob D wrote:
Sebboh, I see you found my ride. Interesting processing. How are you liking LR4 so far? As soon as my new computer is built I will be ordering it.
yeah, hope you don't mind, but i forgot to fill up the tank when i returned it.
LR4 looks like a decent incremental improvement, the lack of manual CA correction really bugs me though. i really like the addition of the ability to locally adjust noise, highlights, and shadows.
wfrank wrote:
sebboh: the car is fabulous! Love the faint/cross colors. Is the DOF all natural with that lens or have you strengthened it in any way?
thanks, i did some local adjustments in addition to the cross processing. i boosted the clarity on the car to make the dof look larger on it and i lowered the highlights in the sky while keeping them fully intact on the car.
sebboh wrote:
yeah, hope you don't mind, but i forgot to fill up the tank when i returned it.
LR4 looks like a decent incremental improvement, the lack of manual CA correction really bugs me though. i really like the addition of the ability to locally adjust noise, highlights, and shadows.
No problem, but please close the sun roof, I don't want any rain to get in there.
I'm looking forward to the additional brush adjustments. I didn't know CA correction was replaced by an automated version. I also gather that some highlight recovery is implemented automatically now as well. I'm all for doing less work, but it would be nice to have the option of toggling some of these new utilities off.
Any difference in speed of the software? Any difference in how it handles the NEX files?
Jacob D wrote:
I'm looking forward to the additional brush adjustments. I didn't know CA correction was replaced by an automated version. I also gather that some highlight recovery is implemented automatically now as well. I'm all for doing less work, but it would be nice to have the option of toggling some of these new utilities off.
Any difference in speed of the software? Any difference in how it handles the NEX files?
it's clear that color is being handled a little differently (better i think), otherwise i'm sure there are differences but they're pretty subtle. you can tell it to use the old raw converter incidentally which allows you to keep manual CA correction while still using the new tools. as far as speed goes i haven't been able to do any kind of testing. i switched to LR4 right as my main drive in my laptop went down. now i'm doing everything on my bigger/slower backup drive which is connected through IDE (where the dvd drive used to be), so everything is slower but i can't tell if it's just the drive. i'd love to build myself a new desktop, but have no room for one now that i'm living in SF.
