Category: Digital
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Night shooting – no editing
I spent the last few nights playing with D850 in the freezing cold nights of Canterbury Plains, under an amazing clear sky – very similar in reality to Aoraki Mackenzie Dark Sky Reserve. I used two lenses – Nikon 24mm, f2.8 and Sigma Art 35mm, f1.4 for Aurora Australis shots. Shooting time: anytime in between…
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Nikon Df – low light, handheld, SOOC
Df is a camera I absolutely love. Not only the sensor – which is amazing – but the camera itself. It is simply addictive. I love shooting with it to the point where the subject doesn’t even matter: and it produces great images regardless. It’s the definition of “magic factor” in terms of photography. Here…
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Pentax K-70 with SMC Pentax DA f3.5-5.6 18-55mm
I always wanted a Pentax – and the K-70 did not disappoint. Here it is coupled with a SMC Pentax DA f3.5-5.6 18-55mm. All images are unedited, in manual mode. The pinpoint sharpness could be hit and miss with these lenses, but all the photos have the “magic factor”. It renders beautiful, saturated colors and…
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Fujifilm XT-100 with Fujinon lens
I took the Fujifilm XT-100 for a walk today, with Fujinon XC 50-230mm F4.5-6.7 OIS II and Fujinon XC 15-45mm F3.5-5.6 OIS PZ. It’s a light camera, nice to hold, and quite reliable, despite of not being the sharpest in my bunch. I usually love the colors it produces, in this instance the blue haze…
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TT Artisan 50mm for Leica TL2
I love this TT Artisan manual lens on TL, despite my inability to get the focus right sometimes. In my view, this small lens is much better than the Vario Elmar, at ten percent of the price. It is perfectly showing off the Leica image capabilities. Unedited photos below –
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Nikon D850 – night photography
Samples images of night photography, minimal processing, taken this week with Nikon D850 and Sigma Art lens, f 1.4, Nikon 28mm f2.4.
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Super-Vario-Elmar TL 11-23 ASPH
Lens that gave me some headaches in the past. The RAW files are amazing in terms of sharpness, detail and stored information. The out of camera jpegs, however, are rather washed out, with muted colors, too much contrast and pink hues where there shouldn’t be any…. in the mid-day sky, for example. And they are…
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Voigtländer Color Skopar – Lake Coleridge
Voigtländer Color Skopar 20mm f/3.5 SL II Asph photography at Lake Coleridge. While I am genuinely impressed by this lens, some of the images have darker shadows in Aperture mode, compared to Nikon G series. It’s a give and take, since Nikon can overexpose where Voigtländer gets it right. If I have to choose, underexposed…
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Sigma APO 150-500mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM
Sigma APO 150-500mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM for Nikon. I was surprised how easy it is to shoot handheld with this massive lens. While it takes a bit of mucking around with the 2 stabilization modes, it can produce reasonably good results without a tripod/monopod. It’s sharp and it renders pleasant colors, albeit in Auto…