Season of Touit - Picture 9 Week 37, Wednesday - Poor little daisy
"While I've been sharing my experiences with the Touit 2.8/12 & Touit 2.8/50M for couple of weeks now, I have avoided the most obvious topic: the image quality. Image quality in itself is of course a complex subject and I am not an optical engineer neither I have the technical know-how to evaluate the most microscopic qualities of the optical performance – therefore I will mostly speak about my experience. But this is not the reason of my avoidance regarding this topic. The truth is that I find the topic of 'image quality' to be very exaggerated and sometimes even distorted in photography related forums and therefore that it is challenging to write about it without being interpreted by this exaggerated hype. [...]"
I just picked up a Sigma 50-500 yesterday, and though conditions weren't ideal, just had to get out and try it. Lucky for me, there was a willing participant at the local marsh!
Season of Touit - Picture 10 Week 37, Saturday - The Obsession with Sharpness
"The Touit 2.8/12 is very sharp right from the wide open at f/2.8 and doesn't really increase after that even if stopped down a bit – although the focus area increases and makes the image feel sharper in total. What I like about the Touit 2.8/12 is that the sharpness extends to edges as well, particularly if the subject is close focused. When focusing into far objects, like landscape for example, the sharpness doesn't strike as superb, but might also be because things get rather small in the image field due to small focal length. [...]"
Season of Touit - Picture 11 Week 38, Wednesday - The obsession with contrast & colors
"When I received the Zeiss Touit 2.8/12 & Touit 2.8/50M I immediately noticed, already from the camera's LCD, that the pictures I took looked somehow different from what was common with my Sony E-mount lenses (SEL1855 & SEL50F18). It's difficult to put in words, but I would say more vibrant and subtle regarding the overall look. Having used them for over month now, I can say for certain that these lenses deliver more contrast and have better colors than my usual lenses. Better contrast shows with greater clarity in pictures and [...]"
A couple from last night using the smooth reflection app to get a long exposure effect. I love this little camera. The purple hued image is 100 combined frames.
akclimber wrote:
A couple from last night using the smooth reflection app to get a long exposure effect. I love this little camera. The purple hued image is 100 combined frames.
Wow, combined as in 100 stitched images, you mean? How big is the resulting file? Impressive!
AGeoJO wrote:
Wow, combined as in 100 stitched images, you mean? How big is the resulting file? Impressive!
I'm guessing that he stacked 100 frames to get the blurred sky and water. The picture was taken at 12mm (Sony 10-18mm), so it doesn't seem like panorama stitching was done.
