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Hah - Don't believe a word of it (about your social life), on the other hand, the 135 is not exactly a dinner party lens :ROTFL: . . . at least, not unless you want to whack someone over the head with it for misbehavingWow Jono that is some dramatic weather. I love the 135 lens but I have such a boring social life I have no victims around to use it on for a portrait lens.
Terry, Will do. I have to scrub the sensor clean first...Vivek, how about same shot same time with NEX and G1.
Douglas, The Sony supplied converter.Which raw converter did you use, Vivek?
Yeah. Hope your replacement zoom would perform better, John.Vivek, your bee has serious dandruff problem.
Vivek, This is a very cropped view of a photo made with a Minolta 100-300 zoom with extension tubes on a NEX 5. I only ever print to 8"x10" and have printed this image which hangs in my den. The lens I used is not known for particularly good resolution but I really can't imagine much better detail than what I see in the eyes of this Dragonfly picture. DOF was extremely narrow ...
Great shot! Anyone know what kind of spider that is?a900 with Sigma 70 mm macro.
Thanks, John.Vivek, the supplied Sony converter is terrible. You should try LR 3 RC2 (it is a free down load until they release it) or Bibble 5 Pro or Raw Developer 1.8.10. Any of them will do a much better job on conversion and you may find detail that you didn't think was there. The Sony Raw converter doesn't do any better than the JPG converter in the camera and it doesn't compare to the ones listed above.
Thanks, Douglas.Yeah, if detail is the goal, Sony IDC is not ideal. RPP and Raw Therapee are among the best around, if you have the patience for their slow, deliberate work flow. If not, more mainstream programs like LR3 will still be much better than the Sony program, in terms of detail. Along with lens choice and sensor, demoisacing is a third of the battle, and raw converters aren't created equally.
Oh! I was a schoolkid in StIves then . . . still a cool place I guess. At anyrate, Isobel is fab.Jono,
Thanks for the new picture of Isobel. I'm sure that her personality matches her colorful appearance. Kind of reminds me of when I way living in the SF Bay area in the mid 1960's.
Jerry
Agree about the Sony IDC, which is a pretty piss-poor RAW converter. My converter of choice is DXO Elite, but unfortunately they don't have RAW support yet, for the NEX.Yeah, if detail is the goal, Sony IDC is not ideal. RPP and Raw Therapee are among the best around, if you have the patience for their slow, deliberate work flow. If not, more mainstream programs like LR3 will still be much better than the Sony program, in terms of detail. Along with lens choice and sensor, demoisacing is a third of the battle, and raw converters aren't created equally.
It has several names: European garden spider, diadem spider, or cross spider (lat.: Araneus diadematus).Great shot! Anyone know what kind of spider that is?
Thanks Steen!It has several names: European garden spider, diadem spider, or cross spider (lat.: Araneus diadematus).
Thanks, Steen, and yes, I know it as a Cross Spider for obvious reasons!It has several names: European garden spider, diadem spider, or cross spider (lat.: Araneus diadematus).
Excellent capture, Mr. Caulfeild-Browne :thumbup: