Just back from an 8-day trip to Ireland with my wife. This was more a vacation then a photography-centered trip so I didn't have the time for more serious planning and scouting of locations. All-in-all I'm pleased with the pictures that I did manage to take and have started going through them as time permits. 98% of the shots including all the multi-shot panoramas were shot hand-held. I can't say enough about how wonderful the IBIS worked with the A7r2. This was such a change for me as I normally shoot 95% of my serious photography on a tripod.
I contemplated taking only autofocus lenses including my 24-70 GM but at the last minute I decided to make myself work a little harder with mainly an all manual focus prime kit. I ended up taking my Loxia 21, Distagon 35 ZM, Loxia 50 and Loxia 85, I also threw in the Batis 18 just in case I needed a bit wider indoors at churches, etc...
I found that I really could have taken just the Loxia 21, Distagon 35 ZM and the Loxia 85 and I would have been fine. In fact out of 1,672 shots I used the Distagon 35 ZM - 40.8%; the Loxia 21 - 35.8%; and the Loxia 85 - 13.5%.
Here are few from the "Ring of Kerry" in County Kerry which is a very popular 95 mile loop around a peninsula on very winding narrow roads and switchbacks. The views of landscapes and seascapes are just amazing. The driving is terrifying as there are spots where two vehicles can barely squeeze by each other and rock walls inches away on both sides of the roads. In a few spots there are narrow bridges that only one vehicle can pass at a time. There were big tour buses and large construction trucks as well as the stray sheep to be on the look out for as you meandered around these narrow roads!
The people were very friendly and it was a very enjoyable trip. I highly recomend it!
Note: the four shots taken at ISO 1250 was not on purpose. I mistakenly adjusted the ISO and didn't discover it until an hour or so of shooting. The good news is that I always shoot "to the right" on the histogram so these were very clean files with barely any noticable Luminous noise in the shadows. I made a slight 15-20 adjustment in LRCC on the Luminous Noise slider and you would think these were shot at ISO 200-400.
