First, an image. <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=20641>
On 8/26/2016 6:32 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
Gotta be the Sony a7 II or a7R II. Which one?
No twos, but you got very warm.
In my own way, I'm bass-akwards again. Or, to continue the fishy metaphors, swimming upstream, against the current, to
spawn something new.
What do you plan to do about lenses beyond the OMs (if anything)?
As above, I have no current plans to use OM lenses.* I tried that with my first DSLR, and didn't much like it. For
'conventional' photography, whatever that may be, I'm still firmly in the µ4/3 camp with native AF lenses.
My representational photography continues, with HR and focus stacking making it ever more exciting to me, and, perhaps,
more "accurate" :-)
But I've been somewhat frustrated in my parallel interest in what I've called Alt.Moose, which also interests and
excites me, finding aspects of subjects that aren't directly representational, sometimes not even recognizable, but that
engage me emotionally.
While some Alt stuff works well on the smaller sensor, other tools and techniques cry out for a larger sensor. I'd love
to go larger than FF, but don't want to go to MF film, as live view and instant feedback is part of the process for me.
And MF digital is just too expensive.
So, to explore FF, I picked up an original A7 used, and a couple of MF lens adapters. For work with lenses with
waterhouse stops, pinholes and such, the IBIS and faster AF of the A7 II are superfluous and the considerable additional
size and weight (and cost) are negatives. I tried the 5D, but this stuff doesn't work for me through an optical VF
without LV. I'm deeply spoiled with composing and chimping on big, high resolution screens.
I already have several lenses and lens-like image making devices at hand to
play with:
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As above, my ancient-ish SIMA soft focus 100/2 does interesting things, and is
really too long for a 4/3 sensor.
I've another ancient-ish lens, a pre Adaptall I Tamron 28/2.8, from before computer aided design, with some pretty
serious aberrations at f2.8 -f4.
Pinholes, zone plate, LensBaby SF lens with 'colander' diffusion plates.
A used LensBaby Velvet 56 is on it's way, creeping across the country in trucks.
I even have a lens taken apart, so it's a diaphragm only, to see what diffusion alone at hole sizes greater than the
'correct' pinhole sizes do. I stumbled across this by accident one day. I was drilling, then reaming, a hole in a body
cap to hold a pinhole assembly, when I accidentally took a shot. I'm not sure what size the hole was, but much larger
than a pinhole - and it made an image with shape and color! <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=3327>
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One of the glories of the digital age and editing is the ability to go beyond what a lens alone can do. Whether anyone
else likes the above image, I do. :-) It combines three exposures with a SIMA SF 100/2 lens. F2 has a wonderful
glow/softness for the background, but too much for the main subject. So I've used circular gradient masks on an f4
exposure, to remove most of that glow, while remaining generally very soft, and on an f5.6 exposure, to add just a
soupçon of clearer focus at the focal point of the flower head.
It seems kind of a shame to have all these functions on the camera that I may never use. But I couldn't find a (cheap)
12 MP, Live View, mirrorless camera strictly for MF lenses. ;-)
Seems like a nice camera, BTW, and not gargantuan next to the E-M5 II, as the
5D is.
Alternative Moose
* OK, maybe the 80/4 Auto and bellows for slide copying, and other such things.
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