Wayne Fox
Workshop Member
I'm almost at the point of calling it quits on the Alpa or maybe trying the HR lenses. The lens cast on the 35 is just so extreme I'm uncomfortable manipulating the data that much to try and make it right. I can prob. live with it on the 47xl, but not the 35. I also miss going wider than 35 ... I love the wide view of my Phase 28.Yes, I'm pretty pleased with the kit right now. I got sucked in because the 24 and 35 XL had issues with the P65+. I knew they would be worse on the IQ180 and Dave helped get me upgraded to the HR glass. Who needs extra cash laying around anyway.
Both the HR 23 and 32 are stellar. I thought I could get by without the CF on the 23 but finally bit the dust this week. With the CF the 23 my IQ180 images look awesome, and it's nice not fighting with light falloff or noise from using the LCC to bring it back. Slight color correction with the LCC and I'm good to go.
The HRs have a little distortion though, I would be curious to know how others deal with correcting it.
So I might try those two lenses ... or I may just accept what the DF can give me and call it good.
Actually some pretty serious creative license on the reds here. Only about 5 stops of dynamic range in the image, so reds were pretty lifeless. After expanding out the range, I used a couple of color edits to pull the red density down considerable, giving me much more contrast with the white tree trunk.Wayne, did you have any trouble with the reds in this image. They look great.
I saw some really intense reds in some images from arches but realized my preset was using a p65+ profile which may explain it. The waterfall pictures also seemed to have some over saturated reds, but then again the rocks there were pretty red.
At this point I'm happy with the reds, even if there is a slight red issue. In red rock country, nothing wrong making the reds redder I don't shoot any color critical work at all.
still not sure about the color shift I'm getting from top to bottom of the sensor with pretty much every lens I use.
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