[Leica] Wind sewage and surf

Jim Nichols jhnichols at lighttube.net
Mon Oct 12 06:53:01 PDT 2020


That's an impressive shot, Douglas.

On 10/12/20 8:25 AM, Douglas Barry wrote:
> I've been up to my eyes fighting a local planning aberration - hence 
> my lacklustre recent photography - but had to take my camera to do 
> something in relation to the appeal.
>
> Because of a slight access difficulty, I decided to use one of my 
> Pentax lens collection - the M series 2.8/120 on a Fotodiox adaptor. 
> The lens seemed to work well enough on my various film Pentaxes, but 
> I'm not too sure about it on the Sony. Maybe I'll have to upscale the 
> adaptor quality? Thoughts? I'm also not excited by the Fotodiox on my 
> Leica lenses.
>
> This is virtually the same size as it came out of the camera, but 
> tilted .05  to level the horizon and minimally cropped to lose the 
> blank bits. The  image also had auto light levels applied, additional 
> colour saturation boost of 8 and was sharpened to 41 all in PSE, as it 
> certainly didn't look great straight out of the camera.
>
> Kite surfing etc. taken at sewage outlet at West Pier, Dun Laoghaire, 
> Co. Dublin close to Seapoint swimming area.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/CoVid-19/Kite+Surfing+Dublin+Bay+1+10_10_20.jpg.html 
>
>
> Sony A7II and Pentax-M 120/2.8 glass. Shot at either f8 or f11 1/1600s 
> at ISO 320. Detail can be seen at larger size.
>
> Douglas
>
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Jim Nichols
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