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And here's a sample of the latest 55mm f/4 Pentax-67 lens. There were three different 55mm lenses, the earliest an f/3.5 Takumar using 100mm filters (!), and then two 55mm f/4, the first one on the market only a few years. The last one has one fewer element, and has the lens info printed on the beveled front edge of the focusing ring, typical of…[Read more]

Thanks for the comment, Ray… So far, with informal use, I have the impression that the 100mm Macro does the best on the S2. Not too surprising given that it's a slow macro and one of the final P67 lenses introduced.

The latest 200mm f/4 looks sharper to me than the 165mm f/4… here's a sample (click for larger):

Hello, all –

First post here. I photograph with film cameras 100% – I don't own even one digital camera.

For B&W, Tri-X is my film of choice although I'm thinking of giving Fuji Acros a try. I develop my own film at home and am working on getting a darkroom up and running (I already have most of the components needed).

My Leica…[Read more]

Hello Doug,

Very nice work – thanks for posting. Good to see that some of the P67 lenses are great performers on MFD systems like the S2.

Doug;274 wrote:
I mostly recuperated from a pulled leg muscle and bruised ribs suffered in Las Vegas the week before

– sounds like your own personal version of “The Hangover”! 😀

Ray

Personally moving shot for me. Thank you for posting this.

Not long ago, my Father was buried in a similar place with full military honors … the Great Lakes National Memorial Cemetery. When we were driving through this massive place to the point of ceremony, every single military person along the way snapped to attention and saluted as we…[Read more]

Yes I pulled it too far…flag could remain and context aware fill would easily add sky.

Bob

Atanabe;1526 wrote: A fine salute to those brave men and women who gave their all.

As well as those who continue to do so….

With regard to the corrected version…it looks better to my eye but the top of the flag has now been cut off. Should be a fairly simple correction in Photoshop and one that's worth doing (IMHO).

I try !
thanks,
regards

A fine salute to those brave men and women who gave their all.

Your Monitor Back Plane Brightness setting is currently on Automatic. This adjusts the monitor backlight (not image brightness) based on ambient lighting conditions. To change:

1) Setup menu
2) Monitor/Display
3) Back Plane
4) Backlight
5) Change to Medium
6) Confirm by depressing the thumb wheel

This should solve your problem.

I think that fotografz is on the right 😀 track. I am thinking about getting the RRS macro ring and rack. The next problem will be the flash. If one mounts a pair of flashes on the RRS ring, could one fire them with a pocket wizard? What about hand holding the SF 58 and using the RC-S cable release?

Oops! Sorry.

I posted the wrong link for the Really Right Stuff solution, here's the correct one.

http://reallyrightstuff.com/ProductDesc.aspx?code=B87-QR

-Marc

Thanks, I try this 😉
regards

That rumour doesn't make sense for me either. I would not be surprised if the grey M9 option just fades away but that is because the chrome M9-P option has proven to be so popular. I don't see why the black paint M9 can't continue to co-exist with the M9-P options though since the internals of course are identical.
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A little fill light for the wreathes and perspective correction for the convergence would make it ideal….

Nice capture.

Regards,

Bob

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I like it. Well done. The sun angle is great for backlighting the flag and stone building. However, it puts the wreaths leaning on the headstones in shadow. To bad you can't have it all.

Iceandfire;1515 wrote: Hello,
I have a question about the back screen on my S2,
it's bad when the light is dark…
sometimes it's grey sometimes it's dark with special effect ! 🙂
but when the light is good, the screen is normal…
on the magnific S2 the screen must be all right and all the time I think !
thanks for your ans…

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Just curious, why a little ring-light?

Ring-lights produce flat results, flat as a pancake.

Big Ring-light strobes produce a shadowless effect often used for fashion, but for macro I've never understood the concept of dead-on flat light (except maybe for scientific recording where art, or modeling the shape of the subject, isn't the…[Read more]

fotografz;1513 wrote: Why not just manually focus to the near range and then go from there? That's what I do.

-Marc

I usually use MF or do the same as Marc

Ed