On one of our many trips back and forwards to Normandy, on a small parking place,
we saw suddenly this small memorial. The war is still everywere in Northern France.
Lotusm50 - nice vintage car shots! (Though there's a fair bit of purple fringing (CA) particularly around the highlights. Your RAW software probably has an option to remove this, or if in JPG you can try in Photoshop etc. to eye-drop-select the purple colour and reduce its saturation to 0 to minimise the effect. There may be other/better ways!)
Phillip - great as always!
Ronny - two great bird formation shots in two pages!
First try-out of the Canon FDn 28/2.8 on the Lens Turbo (quick shoot at lunch-time on an overcast rainy day!), fair bit of barrel distortion to fix on the architectural shots (that I never noticed in crop mode):
Nice work on this page.
Phillip i appreciate the samples with the Zeiss WA Zoom .
Sebboh - nice color on that mountain.Also good control over shadows and highlights.
Lotus 50 - Very cool T/S shots.
alan m - i appreciate the samples with the turbo.Nice bench shot!
sirfishalot - Awesome Pano!
-Jim
alan_m wrote:
...First try-out of the Canon FDn 28/2.8 on the Lens Turbo (quick shoot at lunch-time on an overcast rainy day!), fair bit of barrel distortion to fix on the architectural shots (that I never noticed in crop mode):
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Looks pretty good.
How many of you are using Lens Turbo or the Speedbooster with the NEX? I'm tempted.
Unfortunately the nex 6 power zoom is awful and the 10-18 looks bad too outside of this thread. How much border cropping are you guys doing with that lens.
Unfortunately the nex 6 power zoom is awful and the 10-18 looks bad too outside of this thread. How much border cropping are you guys doing with that lens.
SEL1018 is a good lens. I rarely crop it. At 10mm your corners are very sensitive--but very carefull focus and stopped down I think the corners are OK. Pretty solid from 12mm up. http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3763/10079333993_4a3a5609cf_b.jpg
that's 10mm
In fact I think DXO or somebody has it as the best of all the sony zooms--not including newest. To my mind it's a must have, unless you own a CV 12mm. The sigma 8-16 is just as good but really big and heavy.
uhoh7 -that's a beaut of a shot, what sharpening script are you using for your workflow? (resize / shapen). I've just picked up a LEE big stopper, gonna give it a whirl on this lens at weekend.
I have access to the Grand Canyon this weekend - yes seriously (a friend is a resident of the national park who holds a pretty important position in education). He basically told me we will go wherever, there aren't rangers who would bother us. We can't however go down unfortunately. Bit his back door is the rim.
So I had the lens on overnight but rethought it...now I guess I'll have to buy it locally before I leave. Maybe he sameples I saw were particularly bad. I've see so me great results here. But let's be frank, photographers are here. Test samples with crooked angles and boring subjects /little post while possibly hideous probably represent a lens better. The skill here covers a lot of flaws. And this thread is monster for skill.
I am having a reALLY hard time leaving behind my 5dii for this trip. But we're walking everywhere and we've been over my back problems.
The one other problem is, I don't won't he nex 6 yet, it's borrowed. Lol.
The question for me is..,the touit 12mm is not that much more and If I hope to get the most detail possible, I wonder if that's a better buy. At 18mm af speed is not relevant to me. I'm trying to find touit images in this plethora of wonder. But having a tough time.
Of course I am open to mf legacy lenses but I haven't seen very many good examples of something that wide.
uhoh7 wrote:
SEL1018 is a good lens. I rarely crop it. At 10mm your corners are very sensitive--but very carefull focus and stopped down I think the corners are OK. Pretty solid from 12mm up.
farm4.staticflickr.com/3763/10079333993_4a3a5609cf_b.jpg
that's 10mm
In fact I think DXO or somebody has is as the best of all the sony zooms--not including newest. To my mind it's a must have, unless you own a CV 12mm. The sigma 8-16 is just as good but really big and heavy.
