[Leica] 135mm Apo-Telyt-M on Sony a7rii

[Richard Man]

Is it really faster than using a 4x5? :-)

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 5:08 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
wrote:

> Paul, it's beautiful, but I don't have the patience for that much
> post-processing.  I just shoot for my own enjoyment, so I can choose my
> poison. :-)
>
> One of my frequent subjects is a skydiver at low altitude, and at
> touchdown.  I have found that a Pentax Takumar 135/3.5, mounted on an
> Olympus 4/3 camera, works great for this purpose.  Autofocus lenses, with
> no hard infinity stop, are the worst.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
> On 3/21/2016 6:10 PM, Paul Roark wrote:
>
>> Jim Nichols wrote:
>>
>> ​>  Nice DoF, in spite of Paul's misgivings.
>>
>> And it only took 19 frames!
>>
>> Helicon and PS stacking software choke on wind or camera movement.  So, in
>> landscape work there is almost always going to be a fair amount of hand
>> work and glitches that those who look hard with find.  Where there is no
>> movement (camera or scene), however, Helicon is just amazing.  On this
>> one,
>> since it was hand held, I used PS, first aligning the images as layers and
>> then doing auto stacking.  This only worked for the center images.  Then I
>> had to take the auto-stacked file and put it as a layer over an aligned
>> set
>> of the other layers to fill in the gaps and errors -- one at a time,
>> manually.  Finally I added the front and back parts of the image, in part,
>> manually.
>>
>> Paul
>> www.PaulRoark.com
>>
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