These probably don’t belong in a best of anything thread. I’m really struggling with a new lens, the ergonomics are very difficult for me and even with a lot of adjustment, I don’t think I have the focus right yet (it’s close though). The lens front-focuses badly. If I hadn’t managed to put a small scratch in the lens hood, I would have sent it back before I realized just how much adjustment it needs.
I wouldn’t even process the photos of the last day I went out with it (two weeks ago) until yesterday. I guess some of them are all right - I’m curious to see the processed photos here and would love any reaction. Yes, I know that I’m a master of going to a beautiful location and taking a bunch of boring photos.
In any case, here are a couple of them.
I finally got around to doing something about finding a new photo hosting site, I’m fed up with zenfolio so I’m trying out Smugmug. It’s going to take some getting used to also.
I also used DxO PhotoLab 3 to process them, I find that LR sometimes does weird things to reds, oranges and yellows if you try to lighten them (some of these were under-exposed due to the influence of so much white rock - should have also paid more attention to that, too). DxO is less likely to do that, but I’m not that familiar with it. The lens is too new for any of the software programs to recognize it yet, so it’s listed as an unknown lens.
It’s not all that bad of a lens if everything comes together. But too often it doesn’t. It doesn’t play well with my KP and I don’t know if the fault lies with my particular KP (which does have a weird issue) or with the lens. I tried it with the K1, but I don’t have the focus adjustment set right with it. So I’m not exactly a happy camper at the moment.