[Leica] Wind sewage and surf

[Don Dory]

I have found that newer lenses do much better on Sony sensors if resolution
and detail are the goal.  For character ymmv.

On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 8:26 AM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> 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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