[itshimitis]

The sun is out for a change and so had a play around outside in the back garden while our dog Caesar had a run around (the bonus being that once he'd tired himself a bit I could get him to sit still for a second to use the manual focus on him!

A few daisies still about:

Canon 5D mk III Carl Zeiss 35mm f/2 at f/4 1/640 ISO 100




The gale force winds have played havock with our rose bushes here's one of our surviving roses

f/5.6 1/400 ISO 400 (wind still blowing!)




Our Palm trees are still standing though:

f/8 1/100 ISO 100




Caesar taken wide open:

f/2 1/8000 ISO 100




and again slightly less wide open

f/2.8 1/6000 ISO 100

[itshimitis]

Weather turned out much better today so went for a stroll up Mynydd Ddinas, the mountain behind where we live and grabbed a few landscapes with the Zeiss glass:

Looking over the Cwmafan Valley:

canon 5D mk III Carl Zeiss ZE 35mm f/2 at f/8 1/160 ISO 100




Looking back towards where I had come from, I liked the line of the path and the two trees:

f/8 1/200 ISO 100




A macro shot while I was on the hill:

Canon 5D mk III EF 180 f/3.5L macro at f/9 1/400 ISO 800

[bossa]

The rain finally stopped and grabbed this shot of the front of our car:

Canon 5D mk III Carl Zeiss ZE 35mm f/2 Distagon T* at f/16 and 1/25 ISO 250 converted in Silver efex pro 2




The lens is a nice weight and the focussing wheel has great feedback. in short, its a fantastic lens, and manually focussing can only be good for my technique.

Looks to be a great lens..

BTW... ..when can I come over for lunch?

[bossa]

love this sepia tone! 50 f1.8

Great shots..

You're other shots weren't too sharp.. I was only kidding around mate...

I'll go listen to the song now. ;-)

[jsherman999]

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Did a quick real-world-shooting comparison between the Sigma 100-300 f4 HSM and the Nikon 300 f/4 today. And I shot some other stuff too.

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Nikon 300 f/4 ISO 720 1/500s


Sigma 100-30 f4 @ 300mm f/4 ISO 900 1/500s


Here's one from the Nikon 300, a bit closer and ISO 560:

f4 ISO 560


Couple more...

Environmental portrait (kinda) from the 20 2.8D:
Once guy likes, one, not.


50mm f/1.8D @ f/4

50mm f/2.8







Nikon 300 f/4 @ f/4 1/1000 ISO 180

300mm f/4




Nikon 300mm f/4 @ f/4, 1/1000s ISO 100

[TOUGEFC]

180mm f/2.8, every shot wide open-

[Downfall]

Great shots Simon!

Here are photos from my sisters prom earlier this week: (Canon 5DmkII + Canon 35/1.4 and Canon 5D + Canon 85/1.8)

[noons]

Wonderful pics Downfall
I love the pp, very clean and bright

[jsherman999]

Downfall, she will be very pleased with those, great work.

[the swede]

180mm f/2.8, every shot wide open-

Really great shots Simon!

Here are photos from my sisters prom earlier this week: (Canon 5DmkII + Canon 35/1.4 and Canon 5D + Canon 85/1.8)

Great series mate!

[dexmus]

terrific shots on this page. Kudos guys!

[IIGQ4U]

I need to reshoot this as I was really rushed due to a number of people entering the cave. I pretty much gave up, so this is all I have:

[nibutto]

The dealer called me and said:
"Nicola, I have a good opportunity for your tests with the Nikon FF: a guy passed to Canon and I have a second hand metal 85 f1,4D and a Zeiss 35 f2, they are not the latest version with the latest electronics but they are very good glasses I know you will enjoy these lenses...."
And as directly consequence.......
As follow the first pics!!!
I think I'm ready to say hello to Pentax gear (I need refound, I don't need a second camera, from lenses like the 15, the 43 the 77 the 300 I can collect a lot of pennies...)
It's incredible what's happening.......I would never have said up to a month ago, for me is not the brand but the advantage of more light in the FF sensor.



1 hour ago rainbow with the zeiss 35

zeiss at f2

[jsherman999]

Incredible IQ, especially this one. How are you liking that 180?

[jsherman999]

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Like the detail on this, 100-300 f4 @

195mm f/5 1/800s ISO 100

300mm



50 f/1.8D @ f/5.6