In the States there is a abbreviation for everything and everybody seems to know what they mean,
But which library is that nice photo of BPL. Let me take a wild guess, British Public Library in?
Thanks Michiel ... BPL = Boston Public Library. It's the Bates Hall in the original wing designed by McKim. Check out bpl.org
Paramount and Crosses were taken with a Canon 85L on a newly acquired Deo-Tech EF-Nex adapter, and the other 2 with a ZF 25/2.8 distagon and a Kipon T/S adapter.
During the last couple of weeks I was traveling from Vienna to Hamburg via train. I tried to take some images from the fast moving ICE train. I was shooting on a bumpy train through a dirty window that had awful reflections. So, most of them turned out to be rather horrible. But a few were not so bad.
These were taken with the Leica 24mm Elmar and the Nex 7.
a question for PHilber. Several years ago thru your posts I learned" Point and Shoot" shooting with a MF lens (set the camera at F8 ish and infinity) , the ideas was that the wider lens worked better. If you put a lens on a 4/3 and it has a effective length of x2, for instance a 35mm becomes a 70mm. Does this need to be taken into consideration in the "point and shoot" method? thanks a lot hope my question is understandable. joanlvh
Joan, the DOF of a given lens remains the same, irrespective of which camera and sensor size it is mounted on. So it is just as capable of P&S shooting as a 35mm. If anything, because a MFT has a smaller sensor, it generally uses wider lenses to compensate for that, and thus displays more DOF than a FF DSLR.
I usually convert to BW in post (Lightroom). The hot rod was converted to B&W, -100 Whites (the sky was really blown out), +37 Dark Tones, +50 Clarity. The Clarity slider in LR is a dangerous one, but in some cases like this, it works wonders. The local contrast in things like the tires and suspension was dramatically improved by that.
Thanks, guys. I use Silver Efex for the b/w conversions. I'm still getting to know it, so at this point its mostly starting with presets and then tweaking things till it looks right to me.
On a somewhat related note: as i get to know the Sony 35, I'm more and more impressed with the resolution and rendering, and less and less impressed with the colors. So, i do feel like i've had to process (or over-process) the images to get them where i like them.
