Thanks, Ian. There’s a good variety of shots there!
I think that there is a “creamy" quality to shots with the Fuji sensor. I have
the “consumer”-grade zooms (16-50 and 50-230) and the quality of the images is
similar to yours.
I really like your 500mm shot, and that stilted crane tender is a rather smart
device.
The stone with pointers to places brings back memories. A friend (a pretty
one) used to live in Dwygyfylchi near Penmaenmawr while I was learning to fly
the Hawk at Valley. On a night flight I decided to visit the village and got
rather low and rather too close to the hill next door. Foolish person that I
was!
Chris
On 30 Jul 2014, at 09:16, SwissPace <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Just before the holiday I mention buying some new kit namely the XT1 and the
> 55-200, on a last minute impulse I also scored the 56/1.2. The XT1 is truly
> OM like in size and operation, but I needed to buy a grip. It is pretty much
> perfect, the only reason I have to dive into the menu now is for macro mode,
> shutter delay (which cleverly resets itself after a while - some times its
> nice for the camera to change settings between use) and card formatting,
> otherwise all controls are easy to hand, even better than the X-Pro1.
>
> I am not fully sure that the sensor quality matches or betters the X-Pro1 but
> that may be due to LR - its good enough though but when I have more time then
> maybe I try some other raw convertors.
>
> The biggest plus is that finally I can get rid on my canon 5D2 and associated
> kit, I can use the OM lenses on the XT1 just as well with the fantastic EVF
> (although its still not as good as a real DLSR in terms of colour),. a couple
> of years ago I bought a pristine OM 500/8 from John Hermanson but I never
> really got satisfactory results, this has now changed with the XT1.
>
> Windfarm normal view (83mm in 35mm)
> <http://thattimeoflife.smugmug.com/Holidays/LlandudnoJuly2014/i-rNPVxdK/A>
> Windfarm with 500/8
> <http://thattimeoflife.smugmug.com/Holidays/LlandudnoJuly2014/i-sz6H27b/A>
>
> moon shot with OM 500/8
> <http://thattimeoflife.smugmug.com/Holidays/LlandudnoJuly2014/i-QJGz9Tb/A>
>
> I used the 55-200 much more than expected as it became my macro lens as well
> as telephoto and am generally pleased with the results, the 56/1.2
> surprisingly was little used but its really for portraits and I don't do much
> of those although I attended a pals wedding on return though and it was used
> a lot then.
>
> Luc with 56/1.2
> <http://thattimeoflife.smugmug.com/Holidays/LlandudnoJuly2014/i-t2NGd3F/A>
> scoobydoo cast 56/1.2
> <http://thattimeoflife.smugmug.com/Holidays/LlandudnoJuly2014/i-XpdR69q/A>
>
> I seem to always be short of time so the photos get loaded into LR quickly
> perused and rated with a start or two, very rarely are they amended and then
> sometimes uploaded to smugmug, which is my way of saying if you look at the
> rest of the gallery it may not be as polished as it should :-)
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