Phillip - great leaf shot.I am trying to pull one of those off myself
Specularist- nice set with lens turbo.What are your thoughts on using the turbo?
-Jim
Jim Schemel wrote:
Phillip - great leaf shot.I am trying to pull one of those off myself
Specularist- nice set with lens turbo.What are your thoughts on using the turbo?
-Jim
Thanks! Almost all my posts/shots from the past two months are with it. Copy/paste from above: I got the cheaper Zhongyi Lens Turbo for FD and it's hardly left my F3 since. Image quality issues - yes, better IQ! ;-) Slight increase in sharpness across the frame, but not the fall-off in edge sharpness I was expecting - that's probably a testament to the quality of the FD lenses. I think the far corners are a little soft, but i haven't tested it. A significant reduction in contrast overall in bright light, recoverable in RAW, and may be corrected by use of a hood, which I don't have for FD, but should try it with LT (FD are all pretty high contrast on a regular adapter). Wider angles show a fair bit of barrel distortion, correctable with +10 in ACR. Central blue spot shows up with bright scenes, especially reflective water, with a central dark subject - i think it's a flare spot caused by the LT glass reflecting back onto the sensor, and may also be responsible for the general contrast issue (just a hunch). It's partially fixable with a bit of selective blue/purple reduction, but BW conversion helps a lot!
Unless you can justify/afford a FF A7 (I can't), it's a great, fun, FF-on-the-cheap for the NEX!
rji2goleez wrote:
Uhoh7 - love the lighting on the last image! Very nice.
Incredible I have not yet been killed by lightning
TY for kind words, that may be the very cheap Canon LTM 50/1.8 which i took that day cause my 50 cron was on loan. http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5534/10717419593_4080e43035_b.jpg
sigma 8-16
@CoDaQue, beautiful muted colors on the Turkey set. I could happily shoot the Galata bridge the rest of my life and not get bored. Great job, really captures a time in the city that I don't think most tourists are there.
Almost 100% crop (at 2048x1361) from FD 100/2.8 + LT: DSC03804 by specularist, on Flickr
Probably FD 50/1.4 + LT (maybe Rokkor 135/35?!), slight crop to remove sky and edges & create a semi-abstract BW texture from a banal colour shot: DSC03791 by specularist, on Flickr
I've been on a hiatus of sorts from shooting lately, but I took the C3 + Sigma 30 for a walk today. It's quite dreary and autumnal out, but it's not necessarily a bad thing.
