The Official Head-Case Photography Thread.

[padam]

458 Italia, nice!

[agile_one]

458 Italia, nice!

Yes, but Green?  That's just wrong.  Nice shot, though, Ari.

[Knuckledragger]

 

The $2 million Leica lens you’ll never get to see.

[Jon L]

with 2x teleconverter

EOSD1064 by drjlo1, on Flickr

[Currawong]

Although he needs to be taken with a pinch of salt, have you read the Ken Rockwell "how to use ultra-wide lenses" guide? I found it quite helpful considering how little information I could find on these lenses elsewhere.

Ooh, KR's article showcases a perfect example of something that looks better with a normal 37mm lens than with 14mm in the truck 2/3 of the way through - there is that pinch of salt.... Sometimes wider is just not the answer.

 

Found it. I played with a friend's 14-24mm Nikon lens on my D7000 in Tokyo. Mad lens. The pinch of salt in that Ken Rockwell article for me is his talking about getting right up in the face of things. The point of having the zoom on that lens is so you don't always have to do that IMO. Mind you, I haven't tried that lens on an FX camera yet and my photography with that lens was for practical, not artistic purposes -- eg: standing in front of a table at a meet and capturing the whole thing without having to worry about getting a crowd of people out of the way.

[oogabooga]

Although he needs to be taken with a pinch of salt, have you read the Ken Rockwell "how to use ultra-wide lenses" guide? I found it quite helpful considering how little information I could find on these lenses elsewhere.

Ooh, KR's article showcases a perfect example of something that looks better with a normal 37mm lens than with 14mm in the truck 2/3 of the way through - there is that pinch of salt.... Sometimes wider is just not the answer.

 

Just saw your post - I know KR's site (and yeah, some of his reviews need a pile of salt) but I don't think I've read that UWA article yet.  Reading material for tonight's plane ride!

 

with 2x teleconverter

EOSD1064 by drjlo1, on Flickr

 

That photo, and the sharpness, is incredible! Did you do much in post?  It looks sharper than when I had my Nikon 2x (TC-III) with 70-200 2.8!

[VPI]

Hero Comparison

 

 

 

Really boring attempt at 720p 120fps slow motion.

 

Edited January 9, 2013 by VPI

[Jon L]

That photo, and the sharpness, is incredible! Did you do much in post?  It looks sharper than when I had my Nikon 2x (TC-III) with 70-200 2.8!

Just the usual amount of unsharp mask I apply to most RAW's, which is less sharpening than what camera body's jpeg engine applies.

The new Canon 2x TC Mk III is a big improvement over Mk II in terms of sharpness, and one should shoot stopped down with TC's. My photo was shot at f/8.

[mikeymad]

small tree - on the way to my car after work (taken with phone)... maybe wrong thread - but wanted to share..

 

[n_maher]

Thanks for sharing, I like it.

[Knuckledragger]

This is definitely the right thread.

[Jon L]

The new Fuji X100s looks very interesting!

http://www.dpreview.com/previews/fujifilm-x100s

Edited January 12, 2013 by Jon L

[Salt Peanuts]

^ Nice.  I wonder when the improvements on X100S will make it over to their interchangeable-lens cameras - would make for a healthy competition over on mirrorless arena since Sony is still not really trying.

[Jon L]

^ Nice.  I wonder when the improvements on X100S will make it over to their interchangeable-lens cameras - would make for a healthy competition over on mirrorless arena since Sony is still not really trying.

A lot of the recent Fuji X-E1 buyers are a bit miffed that Fuji chose to release the X-E1 with the older sensor a few months before the new generation of bodies with the new sensors. I suspect the older X-Pro 1 will get the sensor update before the more recent X-E1.

Anyways, not my dog..

[Salt Peanuts]

And they would have been equally as annoyed if Fuji delayed releasing X-E1 until now, and maybe they haven't figured out how to work the sensor-level PDAF with different lenses as opposed to fixed one on X100S. In any case, this thing is looking like it will be giving Sony RX-1 run for its money.

[Salt Peanuts]

The End of an Era: Steve McCurry and the Final Roll of Kodachrome Film

Edited January 14, 2013 by Salt Peanuts

[cutestory]

The new Fuji X100s looks very interesting!

 

Yes. This may be the second camera I'm looking for...

[jpelg]

Thanks for the link Salty!

[Knuckledragger]

 

New 5D Mark III Box Arrives Full of Laminate Flooring, No Camera.  Twice.

[agile_one]

^^^ That is seriously F'd up, and Dell should be ashamed of themselves if true.

[nikongod]

 

New 5D Mark III Box Arrives Full of Laminate Flooring, No Camera.  Twice.

 

Not that I find humor in this guy's poor luck, but... 

After reading his story the banner ad at the bottom of the page is for wood flooring. 

It made me giggle. 

[crappyjones123]

Is that story real? I find it very unbelievable. If true, it is quite sad. 

[Knuckledragger]

 

DRTV take a look at the Sony RX-1.

Edited January 19, 2013 by Knuckledragger

[Knuckledragger]

A guy who is the grandson of a famous Zeiss designer showed up on reddit's /r/photography last week.  On Friday he put in an appearance on MFLenses forum.  He inherited a number of lenses from his grandfather which are stupidly rare.  One of which (the Distagon 25mm F/1.4) was known only to exist in plans.  That is, there were no copies, even prototypes believes to exist.  

 

Porn:

 

A few more here.

[mikeymad]

man that 1.4/85 is a light bucket...   (and the 2.8/180)