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Max, I really like the tonality of this (especially the glowing highlights with detail in them—your dad looks around the same age as me, and therefore shows signs of life lived!).Yesterday I learned that even the oddest of circumstances may result in interesting images. For instance this one. I received and installed an acetat overlay with crop lines for my zd back. So I wanted to check whether those crop lines are accurate and did a few tethered shots of my father while he was looking at the screen.
Mamiya AF 80mm - 1/60s - f 2,8 - ISO 400
Max
Understood. Only .MOS format is available on the Aptus; wonder what sort of NR, if any, the ZD is doing to the JPEG? BTW, my etched screen for the Mamiya/A22 is inaccurate—I have to check the LCD after shooting when my composition is tightly cropped. Bummer.Hello Ian,
I am using Lightroom 3 to process my files. I really like LR exept for its file management system which I don't find too useful (yet)... However this particular image was shot as jpeg, only for the sake of testing those crop lines I mentioned. I avoid shooting jpeg normally.
Always in the darker areas—I should have remembered that.Then I used PS to convert it to black & white. I managed to reduce noise a little bit by adjusting the bw intensities for each "colour channel" (don't know the right term). In his coat however, that's where the real noise lurks, no detail just noise.
The Aptus is somewhat newer I think and may have better processing for noise. Hard to comparison-test, though. Does the Mamiya have a fan for cooling?Shouldn't the ISO 400 performance on both the ZD Back and Aptus 22 be the same since they're utilizing the same sensor?
Did you adjust for IR when focusing the lens? ie first focus through the viewfinder, then adjust the distance using the red mark on the lens barrel)?Regarding IR: I tried it once but somhow didn't manage to focus on infinity. It just didn't work. I mean, I manually focussed on infinity but the images weren't sharp at all. Especially when using wider apertures. I had to use f 22 and focus on infinity to get mostly sharp results... Does anybody have an explanation for this?
:ROTFL:"magical" skin tones.
It’s a quote from the link. “Magical” is not a word that I would use in any context.:ROTFL:
Lightrooms noise reduction capabilities are incredible! It handles colour noise extremely well. Even if you adjust that control bar to a 100% you don't seem to lose any detail at all. JPEGs are about 9mb. Just let me know if you want some..Have you tried doing *all* NR in Lightroom? Supposed to be pretty good these days. How big is the out-of-camera JPEG? If not too large, I would like to have a look at it in C1.
The ZD Back doesn't have a fan so it's pretty light. I like shooting handhelt in mirror up mode which is great on the Phase One.The Aptus is somewhat newer I think and may have better processing for noise. Hard to comparison-test, though. Does the Mamiya have a fan for cooling?
I used the scale on the lens barrel to focus (as shown on your 50mm shift lens) and then fired from the hip.Did you adjust for IR when focusing the lens? ie first focus through the viewfinder, then adjust the distance using the red mark on the lens barrel)?
I guess you're right on this. As you said, the missing filter seems to affect the optical path somehow. So maybe a piece of glass would work aswell? Since one needs an IR filter anyway...You probably need to have a filter in the back, not just remove the IR cutoff, to maintain the same optical path; focus may well be affected. Mamiya made a IR filter called YD401 which would be nice to find at a good price.
Yeah... I got the sarcasm in your original reply. I truly though it was funny. "Magical" IR skintones! I can just imagine reading that text from a late 1970s Hoya magazine add.It’s a quote from the link. “Magical” is not a word that I would use in any context.
:ROTFL:I can just imagine reading that text from a late 1970s Hoya magazine add.
Thanks Jack,Bob,
Excellent energetic pose, so kudos on the equally excellent timing! Lighting and skin-tones are spot on too. Dancers are tough to photograph well, congrats on a job well done!
Very nice Bob... my wife has a ballet/tap and gymnastics school, so I hope to be doing some of this type of photography - I have taken shots for submission for application for admission to ballet schools, but I do not have permission to post them.From a shoot at the Walnut Hill School for the Arts
-bob