h00ligan wrote:
Thatnks again for the info. Wealth of onowledge.
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.
The world is about to change. Since you love the 5D, I would not recommend investing in any APS-c lens, including touit. The new Sony full frame emounts are only weeks away from introduction. You might not get one right away, but I bet you have one in the near future.
On those cameras 18 mm gives the same FOV as 12mm on the nex 6. Of course, we have no idea if the new sensors are going to work well with the small M and LTM Mount Wide angles. But we are going to know very soon.
Cv 12 and 15mm jump to mind.
The other question on the Touit, how does it do at infinity? The zeiss 24 mm is not good enough at infinity, but really excellent at shorter distances. So you have to watch out for that.
There are also the wider zooms for canon and nikon, which may be great on the new cameras. The cheaper A7 (aka nex ff) will be around 1600 for the body. It's weather sealed. That last thing is huge outdoors. I can't even believe my 5n still works!
But today, the SEL1018 is awful nice. It's light, and gives u flexibility. The touit will go indoors nicely, at 2.8. Both will loose value right after purchase. So, I'd advise u to hang on a month.
I can't wait to see how the zm18 does on the new machines.
@joevain. Ty, sir. Nothing special in LR for sharpening, and I export from raw to JPEG, then up to flickr. In that shot I had huge dynamic range. So I had to do major shadow recovery, and highlight reduction. Makes me really happy that you guys find it reasonably sharp :-)
Here's a couple of shots from Skuleskogen national park in the middle of the High Coast area of Sweden. A very photogenic place, but unfortunately my father and I could only stop for a few hours. All of the photos were taken with a NEX-7 and Contax Zeiss 25/2.8.
ytwong wrote:
Some from today, with NEX-6 + 16-50/3.5-5.6 OSS and 55-210/4.5-6.3 OSS, 2 lenses that are not loved by anybody here.
Oh, saw some nice pictures with MD 35-70... I want to get the Minolta zoom and join the party
Hey, I like seeing the photos people take with the native zooms!
I am on the fence with the Minolta. I like it, but I'm too slow with manual focus, esp. if I'm out hiking with other people...
I'm still eyeballing the OMD. The 16-70 Zeiss looks great for NEX, but there's still not a great native macro lens option, and Oly has the well-reviewed 60mm.
Really wish someone would make a contemporary AF 35-70 w/ macro at the 70 end for NEX. (C'mon Zeiss)
Michelle and Ebookman what is the max aperture on the Minolta 35-70 I assume you are using the same lens??
Later it was mentioned that there is an AF 35-70, do you know if that is a lens that Minolta made later?
thanks joanlvh
Michelle, why don't you try the Minolta 35-70 AF with the la-ea2 adapter? That way you'd have af and a very nice 35-70 lens (very compact as well). Maro still at 35, though.
@Joan, mine is the f/3.5 MD version... Not AF. It's got macro at 70mm which is very handy.
@Xavier, that's not a bad idea, esp. if Sony will release a new body in the next year that suits me. I still really want the EVF and a touch-screen, otherwise I can't find a good reason to move past my 5N. I would hope the newer bodies focus better than 5N with the LA-EA2?
I start feeling bitchy about my NEX, and then we go out with a short stout tripod (was his name Benro?), have a few drinks and a good time, and I am sorry I said bad things about her.
These are either with E-24mm or E-50mm and CPL. Leaves and moss, all lost in my own Mad Season (on Madden Creek).
mco_970 wrote:
Hey, I like seeing the photos people take with the native zooms!
I am on the fence with the Minolta. I like it, but I'm too slow with manual focus, esp. if I'm out hiking with other people...
I'm still eyeballing the OMD. The 16-70 Zeiss looks great for NEX, but there's still not a great native macro lens option, and Oly has the well-reviewed 60mm.
Really wish someone would make a contemporary AF 35-70 w/ macro at the 70 end for NEX. (C'mon Zeiss)
Yes, using adapted glass is slow when I'm hiking with others, and sometimes OSS helps a lot, esp with longer lens. I don't want others to wait for me for setting up tripod and shoot slowly ...
Yes, I'm eyeing over the OMD, the EM-1 is really attractive, especially with the 12-40. The sensor seems almost as good as NEX-6 (Sony is slightly better but definitely not 1 stop better) but the Oly lens is faster. Weather (and coffee?) seal lens and body, fairly good macro (~ 1:3 ?), EVF AND touchscreen, seemingly much better wifi/smartphone remote (the Sony app is crap) .... sounds like I keep finding reasons to buy one
But NEX-6 + 16-70 is lighter and smaller than EM-1 + 12-40
Late afternoon hike on Cascade Creek trail.
