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stunning, like in a bee hive:thumbs:
Thank you very much Marc, much appreciatedIncredibly beautiful!
-Marc
Graham, the Noctilux is the one lens that will have to be removed from my cold dead hands even if I no longer own a digital Leica, I keep loving it on my Nex 7...Vieri, one thing I love (hate?) about your behind the scenes shots is that I miss my Noctilux
Dan, thank you very much! Your landscape work is one of the main inspirations for me here on forum, I really appreciate your wordsVieri, it's your images I was thinking about when I started the thread. I just couldn't remember where I saw it.....fantastic location and fantastic image.
Very impressive technical photo -- I hope someone was always holding the tripod:grin:Here is the Architecture shot that I have posted already sometime ago - leaf Aptus II 12 R on HCam-B1 with Canon TSE 17mm . We were in the second floor of this House on the opposite side of the very narrow street in Regensburg. The Camera as seen in the making of shots was moved downwards as we wanted to catch a full panorama of the street with 180 degrees (the HCam does "only" 126 degrees with one shot) so we added another 4 shots to the left the right up and down - 5 alltogether. The one seen here is the straight middle one which was straightened with the built in Arcbody grid screen and the Arca cube.
regards
Stefan
Thanks Drevil; as I recall the cold wind stung like bees as well.stunning, like in a bee hive:thumbs:
Nice shot Dan, have you tried stopping down past f11 to see if the softness improves? I have found with the 32 sharpness at the edges of the IC improves substantially when stopped down.
The very first outing with a Schneider 28 XL. I wanted to push it around to try the lens limits and thus, no need to pay much attention to any artistic value of the image
To make life difficult for the 28, I went 12mm left and 12mm right on the long side to produce a 2:1 pano. I used the centrefilter. In the example above I had f11 and focus on the rock to the left, around 4,5-5 metres away. Iso 25.
My observations are that vignetting is well controlled with the centrefilter and f11. However, it does get quite soft at the far ends, left and right. I believe you can even see the difference in sharpness in the webimage!
You can also clearly see a magenta area in the very centre of the image, but this is produced without any LCC, on purpose to illustrate how good/bad the combo SK28/Aptus 5 is. With LCC I believe the well documented colourcasts with this lens is no issue at all.
The lens is noticably more contrasty by default compared to my other Schneiders. A normal one-shot image with no movements is sharp out to the edges, but I do regard my 35 XL to render more to my taste. But, take that with a pinch of salt since it is the very first tryout and I need to use it in much varied light conditions to come to a more sober conclusion.
The focal length is awsome. For interiors it is just as perfect as it gets. Very wide, but still does not distort reality.
At the end of the day it is a moneymaking lens. More info to come about this lens as I get to know it more closely.......
Thanks No I have not gone past f11, but will ofcourse try that. I did a few standard oneshot horizontal with 10mm rise and the results were very good indeed. Promising!Nice shot Dan, have you tried stopping down past f11 to see if the softness improves? I have found with the 32 sharpness at the edges of the IC improves substantially when stopped down.