Member Kirsten Vignes

As I said, I am using some blah winter days to reexamine some shots from the fall shoot. This is oddly enough, a merge of two horizontal 120mm shots, then cropped into a vertical panorama. Yes, if I had had a 70mm I could have gotten it in one shot, but less resolution. And I don't have a 70mm. For those of you who want to see the original shot,…[Read more]

I was relatively close to most of the cars, no more than 6-8 feet away. I have had very good results using the S2's auto focus. A trick I often use (in combination with rear-button focusing) is to de-focus the lens slightly using the focus ring then allow the camera to refocus. My in-focus rate for the type of photography I talk about in this post…[Read more]

And another for the “Looking Up” series.

The series so far can be seen here:

http://www.macdonough.net/Landscapes/Ceilings-of-Mil/20371090_n3XCMX#!i=1624277297&k=b7xGBt9

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An additional “ceiling” for the series.
16mm 1/15 sec

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Josh, since you like red objects…
And it probably costs more than the Ferrari,

This is of a series discussed elsewhere.
Jack

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This is a 60 sec exposure with a 35mmS at 320 ISO f4.8

I used LR to color correct the sky and photoshop to quadruple the star brightness.
In 60 seconds the star trails are pretty short.

By quadrupling, I did a color select, selected the white of the stars, Duplicated the stars three times and moved the dupes sideways to get four times…[Read more]

I assume since you say you are a Leica Guy and in past posts looking for an MP and noctilux, you might not have any Nikon lenses? And you certainly appreciate Leica lenses? And if you are a Leica Guy you can afford both options?

Next I would ask what you are going to be using the camera for? If sports, go Nikon.

But I detect that your…[Read more]

Dan Sackheim;1810 wrote: At the risk of seeming like an idiot, can anyone tell me how to identify the ASPH version of the 35MM Summicron vs the non-ASPH version?

Dan

Dan,

All ASPH lenses are marked as such on the front of the lens.

albireo_double;1804 wrote: I am also very much interested in using the Contax 645 lenses on the S2 and wondering why no adapter exists (is it physically not possible to make one or are marketing reasons at play?). I'd love to use the 120 Apo Makro in particular – I had great results with it on the Contax 645 body with a Sinar eMotion 75LV…

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Pete,

This is really a striking photograph. Great job.

Roger;1791 wrote: David

I am a bit confused about the bulb settings. When I take a long exposure I generally am trying to keep my ISO at 160 or 320 to maintain maximum DR and color saturation . Your example implies that setting on B and using ISO 160 limits exposure to16 sec ? And that to get to 125 I would have to increase ISO .

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Deus_Ex_Mamiya;1781 wrote: Hi,

I've seen reference several times to plans/hopes to address both these issues. What is the current status regarding
(1) the longest exposure time possible on B? [and why isn't it arbitary/unlimited, as it is in the Pentax 645D with an almost identical sensor?];
(2) slowing down the readout speed in order to…

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Dan Sackheim;1772 wrote: This has been extremely informative. Thank you all.

Like Josh, I'm a new Lica user, having recently purchased an M9. I've been looking for a good price on a Elmarit f2.8 90mm, and I've been scratching my head, trying to reconcile what I've read on posts about fair prices being under $800 for a mint condition lens,…

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Jack MacD;1770 wrote: It's winter and I have time to go back and work some shots again from the S2 New Hampshire trip. Unfortunately I was on the computer rather than Indianapolis.

These are a few versions of the same shot from Mirror Lake. Thanks to David Farkas who pointed out the shot to me.

I'd appreciate some suggestions as to which…

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It's winter and I have time to go back and work some shots again from the S2 New Hampshire trip. Unfortunately I was on the computer rather than Indianapolis.

These are a few versions of the same shot from Mirror Lake. Thanks to David Farkas who pointed out the shot to me.

I'd appreciate some suggestions as to which version is…[Read more]

Seagate Go Flex might be a solution for file swapping between computers for me.

I have an 2010 iMac without thunderbolt but with firewire 800 and also a 2011 MacAir with thunderbolt and USB 2.0.

My challenge was how to swap files between the two machines in the fastest manner?

Seagate is now making a thin 500Gig drive that can act…[Read more]

Whoa…

Well this photographer is using the tool well.
Glad you posted here as well as GetDPI.
I hope when you print them, you post a shot of how they look in exhibition.
Jack

Wow. These are really amazing shots. Great storytelling, magical lighting and such a depth to the images.

Can't wait to see more!

andyc;1738 wrote: I wonder if anyone has suffered these faults found on my S2 Bodies..

I will list the occurrences.

Andy,

We have a pretty large sample size as S Professional dealers. Here's our experience with each of your issues across a lot of S2s.

1 cracked Sensor filter

Yes, we've seen cracked sensors before. The…[Read more]

Great shots Mark! I'm impressed that you were able to get so close to get such good results using the 50mm.