Just some brief comments...
CEH, lovely shot of mountain and impending storm. Had something similar here recently where I live. I love "brooding" type of images and the tonality of the image adds greatly to its impact.
Mark, one of the reasons the S2 has me interested, is using it in ways that DMF usually isn't associated with. For myself, thats the whole point of my considering it, and I too view it sort of like Nikon/Canon on steriods. Many of the artists I shoot are constantly moving during performance and its a question as to whether the S2 can keep up...especially with AF tracking. I realize some things have to be sacrificed relative to those Nikon/Canon bodies (D3S and sometimes D3x), while other things are to be gained with the S2. It's a question of whether if I could live with the tradeoffs.
Marc, having seen many of your other posted shots (with other systems), I truly am looking forward to your images (and feedback) with your S2.
Wide DR is something I had hoped for in the S2, as much of what I shoot requires it, especially major stage productions where high contrasty lighting is often the order of the day. That image of the woman in the water, looks like she's was startled by seeing your camera and appeared to be exclaiming "OMG look, its an S2!"
Kurt, its just my impression but it appears you're trying to achieve a look of very shallow and rapid falloff of depth of field in many of your S2 test images....where the subject (object) in focus is highlighted by well defined sharpness. My impression (without really knowing), is you're trying (in some images) to emulate the look of your 0.95 Noct as when you used it on your M9. This of course is a good thing and certainly resulted in many impressive images (and not only due to shallow depth of field).
Looking forward to watching this thread closely. Thanks everyone.
Dave (D&A)
CEH, lovely shot of mountain and impending storm. Had something similar here recently where I live. I love "brooding" type of images and the tonality of the image adds greatly to its impact.
Mark, one of the reasons the S2 has me interested, is using it in ways that DMF usually isn't associated with. For myself, thats the whole point of my considering it, and I too view it sort of like Nikon/Canon on steriods. Many of the artists I shoot are constantly moving during performance and its a question as to whether the S2 can keep up...especially with AF tracking. I realize some things have to be sacrificed relative to those Nikon/Canon bodies (D3S and sometimes D3x), while other things are to be gained with the S2. It's a question of whether if I could live with the tradeoffs.
Marc, having seen many of your other posted shots (with other systems), I truly am looking forward to your images (and feedback) with your S2.
Wide DR is something I had hoped for in the S2, as much of what I shoot requires it, especially major stage productions where high contrasty lighting is often the order of the day. That image of the woman in the water, looks like she's was startled by seeing your camera and appeared to be exclaiming "OMG look, its an S2!"
Kurt, its just my impression but it appears you're trying to achieve a look of very shallow and rapid falloff of depth of field in many of your S2 test images....where the subject (object) in focus is highlighted by well defined sharpness. My impression (without really knowing), is you're trying (in some images) to emulate the look of your 0.95 Noct as when you used it on your M9. This of course is a good thing and certainly resulted in many impressive images (and not only due to shallow depth of field).
Looking forward to watching this thread closely. Thanks everyone.
Dave (D&A)
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